MORE than 2 million Afghans are at risk from cold, disease and malnutrition this winter as an international appeal for funds to help one of the world's poorest countries has fallen drastically short of its goal, the United Nations and several humanitarian agencies are warning.
Only 48 per cent of $US448 million ($A427.58 million) that has been requested to help 8.8 million Afghans had been pledged by the end of November, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
Preparations are under way to help Afghans deal with harsh winter conditions, especially 400,000 people who live in some of the most remote mountainous areas of northern and central Afghanistan.
Snow has already covered mountain tops and the first snowfall of the year was forecast for later this week in the Afghan capital, Kabul.
Last year, Afghanistan experienced its coldest winter and heaviest snowfall in more than 15 years.
"People live in remote areas with no access to health facilities," said Mohammad Daim Kakar, director of the Afghan National Disaster Management Authority. "Many people die of pneumonia and measles."
According to the UN and other humanitarian agencies working here, 20 of Afghanistan's 34 provinces have high-risk areas where emergency food, fuel and medical supplies are needed.
Heavy snows and avalanches killed dozens of people in parts of the country last winter, including more than 30 - many of them children - who froze to death in Kabul.
The Afghan capital is home to 55 makeshift camps that house more than 30,000 people - many of them displaced from elsewhere in Afghanistan because of violence.
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