News Pakistan Health: Fake 'Pinky Marks' The Newest Problem In Pakistan’s Push To Eradicate Polio
The rumors turned out to be wildly exaggerated. Public health studies in Pakistan have shown that maternal illiteracy and low parental knowledge about vaccines -- together with poverty and rural ...
News Pakistan Health: What are Pakistan's educational institutes doing to manage their mental health crisis?
"Every time I missed a class or didn’t do well on a course, I went on a guilt trip that didn’t need much to spiral out of control," says A*. “All I could think about was the blood and sweat my parents ...
News Pakistan Health: Polio Cases Surge in Pakistan and Afghanistan
For each paralyzed victim — usually a child below age 5 — there are about 200 others who are infected and shedding the virus in their stool, the World Health Organization estimates. About 20,000 ...
News Pakistan Health: Asif Ali Zardari shifted to hospital after his health deteriorates
RAWALPINDI: Former president Asif Ali Zardari has been shifted to Rawalpindi Institute of Cardiology after his health deteriorated ... Meanwhile according to Pakistan People’s Party statement, NAB ...
News Pakistan Health: Pakistan: Over half of HIV patients in Sindh province remain without treatment: World Health Organisation
Over half of 751 people diagnosed with HIV in Pakistan's Sindh province still await medical assistance, according to a report by the World Health Organisation (WHO). As per the WHO report, out of the 751 people, 604 are children who are infected with HIV, as the country continues to grapple with the HIV outbreak.
News Pakistan Health: Pakistan needs to fix its broken health system
On an assignment several years ago, I met a person in a remote village of Pakistan. He ran a convenience store in the village. He would conveniently treat people's ailments, as well, most often by ...
News Pakistan Health: Form commission to assess PM Imran Khan's 'mental health': former Pakistan premier
Khan in his address to the nation on Tuesday midnight announced to form a high-powered panel to probe the massive debt piled up in the last 10 years during the regimes of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N).
News Pakistan Health: WHO Looking Into Mass HIV Outbreak In Pakistan
A World Health Organization (WHO) team has begun investigating an HIV outbreak in an impoverished district of Sindh Province in southern Pakistan. Sikandar Memom, director of the Sindh Province ...
News Pakistan Health: WHO begins probe in spread of HIV cases in Pakistan
The World Health Organisation (WHO) team, which is in Pakistan to probe the recent outbreak of HIV in the country's Sindh province, began its inquiry by visiting a children's treatment centre and sought more information from its staff about the patients, according to a media report on Friday. The Pakistan government had sought the WHO's help to probe the spread of HIV in the country, that has till now affected over 600 people, mostly children.
News Pakistan Health: The Pakistan city where almost 700 people have been infected with HIV
Although Pakistan's authorities haven't conclusively determined the cause of the outbreak, Zafar Mirza, the country's special assistant to the Prime Minister on health, said at a press conference in ...
News Pakistan Health: Pakistan announces health tax on tobacco, sugary drinks
Health tax of Rs10 (Dh0.25) per pack of 20 cigarette sticks and 1 per cent tax on all beverages (Rs1 on 250ml) has been proposed by NHS Ministry along with an increase in Federal Excise Duty on ...
News Pakistan Health: ‘Pakistan one of 15 countries with heavy burden of tobacco-related health issues’
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is one of 15 countries worldwide with a heavy burden of tobacco-related health issues, a representative of the Ministry of National Health Services’ (NHS) Tobacco Control Cell said ...
News Pakistan Health: Over 600 people test HIV positive in Pakistan city
Islamabad (AFP) - Pakistan said on Sunday over 600 people ... had been tested positive for HIV until yesterday in Rato Dero," special health advisor Zafar Mirza told a press conference in Islamabad. ...
News Pakistan Health: Pakistan Trying to Grapple With Its Biggest HIV Outbreak
A joint rapid response team of experts from the United States and the U.N. World Health Organization arrived in Pakistan Tuesday to support the response to the country’s “biggest” outbreak of HIV ...
News Pakistan Health: Pakistan: 537 out of 681 HIV affected between the age of 2 to 15, WHO to investigate
The Pakistan government has sought the help of the World Health Organisation (WHO) to probe the recent outbreak of HIV in the country’s Sindh province, that has till now affected over 600 people, ...
