Asia is facing a new wave of the HIV/AIDS epidemic due to harsh criminal penalties for drug use, sex work and consensual sex between men in many parts of the region, health experts say. At the same time, the global economic downturn is threatening worldwide budget cuts to HIV/AIDS programs, with the risk that life-saving [...]
US$ 39 billion needed to prevent and control the world's leading killer of young children A comprehensive action plan that can save up to 5.3 million children from dying of pneumonia by 2015 is being launched today by the World Health Organization (WHO) and United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF). Pneumonia is the biggest cause of [...]
Global life expectancy could be increased by nearly five years by addressing five factors affecting health – childhood underweight, unsafe sex, alcohol use, lack of safe water, sanitation and hygiene, and high blood pressure, according to a report published by WHO today. These are responsible for one-quarter of the 60 million deaths estimated to occur [...]
Despite progress, societies continue to fail women at key times of their lives Despite considerable progress in the past decades, societies continue to fail to meet the health care needs of women at key moments of their lives, particularly in their adolescent years and in older age, a WHO report has found. Launching the report, [...]
HIV/AIDS services must be integrated with sexual and reproductive health services if the goal of reducing HIV transmission is to succeed, according to a special issue of the international public health journal, the Bulletin of the World Health Organization. Published today, this issue highlights the theme of “Strengthening the linkages between sexual and reproductive health [...]
Efforts towards universal access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support are bringing AIDS out of isolation According to new data in the 2009 AIDS epidemic update, new HIV infections have been reduced by 17% over the past eight years. Since 2001, when the United Nations Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS was signed, the number [...]
Barrett Hodgson Pakistan, a leading name in the Pakistan Pharmaceutical companies recently held its Annual Sales Conference in two mega cities of Pakistan, Karachi and Lahore to commemorate two billion sales achievement. To appreciate the successful closing of the year 2008-09 and mark a strong beginning of the year 2009-10 the conference was well participated [...]
Med Rev Report In Pakistan, 170,000 Female Sex Workers (FSWs) with 20 clients a month are responsible for having 4.08 billion exposures out of which about 60% or 2.45 billion are without condoms. This calls for a very close scrutiny of this group. The survey is being done under the supervision of Dr. Sohail Abbas [...]
Talal Abu Ghazaleh, Chairman (TAGO) The Arab Organization for Professional Services said that Pakistan economy and its recent thrust towards Industrial and Scientific policy initiatives could best be commercialized, for the mutual benefit of Pakistan and Arab World. He strongly advocated for the formation of Pak Arabia Business Council for the promotion of Pakistan business [...]
Dr. Arshad Abdullah Khan, Karachi Blood borne pathogens are microorganism, virus and bacterial camed in blood and can cause disease in people. There are a number of different pathogens such as these causing malaria syphles and brucellosis but hepatitis B, C and HIV are the most deadly. Since there is no known core for any [...]
The world’s leading child killer is not measles or malaria, but pneumonia, which can be prevented through existing vaccines or treated with inexpensive antibiotics to reduce the number of children dying from this disease in Pakistan, said experts at Aga Khan University (AKU) on World Pneumonia Day. Pneumonia kills more children under five than measles, [...]
By Abdul Sattar Sohrani US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued interim guidelines for chemoprophylaxis and early empiric antiviral treatment in persons with suspected influenza, including 2009 H1N1 influenza infection and seasonal influenza. The new interim recommendations, which update those from September 22, 2009, aim to assist clinicians during the 2009-2010 influenza season [...]
The threat of HIV/AIDS infection in Pakistan is increasing progressively. The main focus of HIV infection detected so far lies in the intra-venous drug users (IDUs) and to a lesser extent in male and hijra sex workers. Female sex workers from the low income groups have a surprisingly low prevalence of HIV infection. This was [...]
Med Rev Report To mark International Breast Cancer Month, ICI Pakistan Ltd. in collaboration with Usman Memorial Hospital (UMH) organised a seminar on "Breast Cancer- Early Diagnosis" recently at Usman Memorial Hospital, Karachi. Prof. Dr. Rufina Soomro, Breast Cancer Specialist from Liaquat National Hospital (LNH) Karachi briefed the participants about the alarming situation caused by [...]
To create awareness among the female community of the region, Nuclear Institute of Medicine & Radiotherapy (NIMRA) Jamshoro organized a Breast Cancer Awareness Program recently at NIMRA Jamshoro. A large number of participants including breast surgeons, lady health workers and female staff of Sindh University attended the awareness program. Ms. Touqeer Fatima Bhutto, Provincial Minister [...]
