50% of population is at risk of vector borne diseases. Vector-borne diseases accounts for more than 17% of all infectious diseases causing more than 1 million deaths annually. More than 2.5 billion people in over 100 countries are at risk of contracting dengue alone. Pakistan has been experiencing an epidemic of dengue fever since 2010 resulting in [...]
WHO has issued its first guidance for the treatment of hepatitis C, a chronic infection that affects an estimated 130 million to 150 million people and results in 350 000 to 500 000 deaths a year. The publication of the "WHO Guidelines for the screening, care and treatment of persons with hepatitis C infection" coincides [...]
Dr. Muhammad Najeeb Durrani, Epidemiologist, District Surveillance Coordinator, District TB Coordinator (DTC), In-charge Dengue Fever Surveillance Cell, Islamabad Although the Government of Pakistan’s National TB Control Program through its TB DOTS strategy has revolutionized the TB treatment in the country and brought down the incidence and the prevalence of disease thereby improving the treatment indicators; [...]
The objective of this paper is to focus the issue of unsafe deliveries conducted by novice midwives in Pakistan. In Pakistani society, safe delivery plays a vital role in country’s maternal and neonatal mortality rate. It has been found that novice midwives lack competency because of limited time period of practical training and unavailability of [...]
Globally, toxically germ-infested unsafe drinking water cause different form of disability among children which are caused by teratogens. The excessive use of medication and consuming polluted water results in the development of abnormal cell tissue in unborn as well as newly born babies particularly during foetal growth, yielding a multiplex of physicochemical defects in the [...]
Dr. Masood Fareed Malik, President-NMO, Pakistan Hemophilia Patients Welfare Society An estimated 1 in 1000 people have a bleeding disorder; close to seven million men, women and children around the world, but 75 per cent of them don’t know it and receive little or no treatment. The Pakistan Hemophilia Patients Welfare Society has been working [...]
By Fahmida Iqbal Khan, Community Mobilization & Networking Advisor UNAIDS Country Office for Pakistan and Afghanistan The global literature and research shows that relationship between Violence against Women (VAW) and HIV risk is incontestable, multifaceted, and involves numerous corridors. Violence against women places women and girls at increased risk of HIV both through direct risk [...]
To commemorate World TB Day 2014, National TB Control Program Islamabad organized a National Seminar with Stakeholders at Pakistan National Council of the Arts (PNCA) in Islamabad. TB patients, their families, health care/service providers, volunteers from Pakistan Girls Guide Association & Pakistan Boy Scouts, local community elders/members, representatives of donor agencies, INGOs, NGOs and officials [...]
The inauguration ceremony of Frozen Sectioning and launching ceremony of Bio-repository and Cancer Registry Projects was organized at the Department of Pathology, Dow International Medical College, Dow University of Health Sciences Ojha Campus. Prof. Naeem A. Jafarey Chief Guest on the occasion said that in this era of Molecular Pathology, Gene Chip Technology is the [...]
More than half the world’s population is at risk from diseases such as malaria, dengue, leishmaniasis, Lyme disease, schistosomiasis, and yellow fever, carried by mosquitoes, flies, ticks, water snails and other vectors. Every year, more than one billion people are infected and more than one million die from vector-borne diseases. This World Health Day – [...]
