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Health Programme
Swedish Committee for Afghanistan is one of the largest implementer of the health activities in the country 
started its work in 1982. In the beginning for some years SCA had been provided medical kits for those health workers who had got training in primary health care and had sent them to the rural and remote areas controlled by Mujahideen. In that time more than 3000 individuals had been employed by SCA for the said purpose.
After that SCA changed its strategy and start establishment of health centers in rural areas and the aim of this change were to provide better and standard health care to the people who were in extreme needs of health care, and during 1997 SCA were running 201 health facilities (55 C1) and 146 C2 in 18 provinces of Afghanistan. These clinics provided curative and preventive services to the people. Beside that SCA provided training for thousands of staff who was involved in programme as will as the staff direct involved for service delivery.
After that the number of health facilities gradually reduced and those health facilities located near to other health facilities were merged or closed to avoid the duplication and the quality of health services had been improved year by year. In 2002 one year before introducing the Basic Package of Health Services SCA was responsible for running 164 health facilities and they had consulted about 1.4 million patients. 42 of those health facilities provided MCH services and five of them were EmOC. SCA had 6 training centers (3 female) with qualified trainers and had been provided training for staff who were involved in health programme.
In 2003 when the policy of Ministry of health changed, SCA was the first NGO who was assigned for implementation of Basic Package of Health Services (BPHS) and started implementation of BPHS in Kunduz. SCA was able to adapt its health activities with new changes; SCA acquired implementation of BPHS in two other provinces as well Wardak, & Paktika til end of 2006.
These projects insure quality and equity based provision of health care to all people living in the said provinces either in the cities and remote rural areas.