Awareness & access of reproductive health to women in developing countries Aims of the Summit The UK Government and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, with the support of UNFPA and other partners, will host a ground breaking international Family Planning Summit inLondonin July. TheSummitwill launch a global movement to give an additional 120 [...]
With 750,000 Preterm Babies Born in the country, Pakistan has fourth highest number of preterm births in the world Every year some 15 million babies in the world are born too early. More than one million of those babies die shortly after birth; countless others suffer some type of lifelong physical, [...]
Aga Khan University Hospital launched first state-of-the-art automated laboratory system that ensures more accurate test results as well as allows a quicker reporting time. The launching Ceremony was held recnetly at AKUH in which Firoz Rasul, President, Aga Khan University was the Chief Guest on the occasion. It aimed to advance patient care, this new [...]
Global progress in both preventing and treating HIV emphasizes the benefits of sustaining investment in HIV/AIDS over the longer term. The latest report by the WHO, UNICEF and UNAIDS Report on the global HIV/AIDS response indicates that increased access to HIV services resulted in a 15% reduction of new infections over the past decade and [...]
A new global consensus has been agreed on the key evidence-based interventions that will sharply reduce the 358,000 women who still die each year during pregnancy and childbirth and the 7.6 million children who die before the age of 5, according to an extensive, three-year global study. The study, Essential Interventions, Commodities and Guidelines for Reproductive, [...]
For the first time, the number of people infected with tuberculosis (TB) each year is declining, according to Mario Raviglione, MD, director of the World Health Organization (WHO)'s Stop TB program. He spoke here today during a press conference to release Global Tuberculosis Control 2011, WHO's 16th annual report on TB, which summarizes advances made [...]
