National AIDS Control Program (NACP) arranged a function to celebrate the World Blood Donor Day 2009.It was held at the National Institute of Health, Islamabad. Federal Minister for Health Mir Ejaz Hussain Jhakrani was the chief guest on the occasion. Other guests included Khushnood Lashari, Secretary Health; Dr. Mahreen Razzaque Bhutto, Parliamentary Secretary [...]
By Fauzia Saeed, Psychologist VCCTC, PRCS Punjab Lahore HIV/AIDS counseling is a form of confidential dialogue between a client and counselor. Counselling is a private conversation with a specially trained person aimed at helping you to help yourself. Counselling encourages you to explore possible solutions to your problems, and to consider the impact [...]
By Ishtiaq Ahmed, National Coordinator, APLHIV, Islamabab Pakistan is currently classified to be the ‘Concentrated Epidemic’ phase by WHO/UNAIDS definition but high risk country for further spread of HIV infection to the general population due to a number of varied factors. Official HIV statistics published by UNAIDS give an increase in HIV and AIDS cases, [...]
Provincial TB Control Program Sindh in collaboration with National TB Control Program arranged First Public Private Mix (PPM) steering committee meeting on June 27, 2009 at a hotel in Karachi. In the meeting an MoU was also signed between Ojha Institute of Dow University and National TB Control Programme, Islamabad and Provincial TB [...]
The closing ceremony of the SIUT Student Volunteer Program Summer Session 2009, BatchXVI and XVII was held at the SIUT Agha Hasan Abedi Auditorium. The ceremony, highlighted the distribution of the certificates to the volunteers. It was attended by the parents. In this summer session, 253 students from different schools took part in this program. [...]
By Ammar Jaffri There are three types of people in this world, the first type is "who make things happen", the second type is "who see things happening" and the third type is who say "what has happened". If you think that you are type 1 person, I need you badly for my [...]
The National TB Control Programme (NTP), Ministry of Health Islamabad organized its quarterly Inter Provincial Meeting from June 19-20, 2009 in order to identify the progress, strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and challenges faced by the programme in all the provinces including FATA, FANA and AJK and to discuss the future plans of the program. [...]
To educate Females Sex Workers (FSWs) on different precautionary health programs for their assistance, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) in collaboration with Provincial AIDS Control Program Sindh (PACP) arranged a three-day Skill Building Workshop on Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs) and HIV recently at a local hotel in Karachi. The workshop’s aimed to educate [...]
Is it possible that millions of people are ignorantly sacrificing their health in exchange for the convenience of microwave ovens? Why did the Soviet Union ban the use of microwave ovens in 1976? Who invented microwave ovens, and why? The answers to these questions may shock you into throwing your microwave oven in [...]
Dr. Azmina Valimohammed, Clinical Oncologist, Aga Khan University Hospital is a well known personality in the field of Oncology. She was recently interviewed by Muhammad Fareed, Publisher & Managing Editor, Medical Review along with his team. Following are the excerpts. Q1 - Please tell us something about yourself. Ans - I am a graduate of [...]
