Kabul / November 11–15 — Afghanistan’s Second National and International Health Exhibition will be held at the Afghanistan International Exhibition Center in Kabul. The event is organized under the auspices of the Ministry of Public Health. Deputy Minister for Health Services Mawlavi Abdul Wali Haqqani emphasized the exhibition as a platform for experience exchange and cooperation, while Mawlavi Abdul Basir Qani, Director General of Medicines and Health Products Regulation, called on domestic and international manufacturers to participate. According to official figures cited at the announcement, Afghanistan currently has 117 pharmaceutical manufacturing facilities, of which four have obtained Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) certification, with another 18 working toward the standard. Organizers stated that participants from India, Türkiye, and Iran are expected, alongside domestic private hospitals and traders, with aims including investment promotion and technical cooperation .
Note: Two IGRNet-organized events—the International Conference on Nutrition and Food Science (ICNFS) and the Global Conference on Pharma Industry and Medical Devices (GCPIMD)—were scheduled for November 7–8 in Kabul, falling just outside the reporting window . A Kabul University academic conference on drug therapy in Afghanistan has an abstract submission window running through November 21, but no conference dates within the target week were identified . A SAARD digital health and bioinformatics congress was listed for November 5, also outside the window . No further verifiable major life sciences events were identified for Afghanistan between November 9 and 15 beyond the national health exhibition.
