To celebrate “World Health Day”, Pathfinder International in collaboration with Pakistan Medical Association and Pakistan Medical and Social Welfare Committee Arts Council Pakistan organized a one day seminar on Thursday 9th April 2015 at PMA House Karachi with a theme “Planning Family for Healthy and Quality Family Life” This seminar was attended by large number of participants including health [...]
The Aga Khan University (AKU) on Monday announced admissions to its various academic programmes, including the recently added Bachelor of Science in Midwifery (BScM) – the country´s first higher education midwifery programme. The midwifery programme will prepare its graduates to provide mothers with care through pregnancy, childbirth and post-delivery, besides sharing advice on newborn and [...]
Interventions address health service gaps for this often overlooked group of women A new resource for health programme managers and policy makers released today aims to improve access to family planning for women after childbirth and during the first 12 months of motherhood. Closely-spaced and unintended pregnancies are a health risk to both mother and [...]
A proud moment in the nation’s history was achieved today when nurse Anila Ali Bardai of the Aga Khan University Hospital received the award for excellence in neonatal nursing at the opening ceremony of the 8th International Conference of the Neonatal Nurses held at the Waterfront Hotel in Belfast, Ireland. She is the first Pakistani nurse to win this [...]
In 2012, approximately 6.6 million children worldwide – 18 000 children per day – died before reaching their fifth birthday, according to a new report released today by UNICEF, WHO, the World Bank Group and the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs/Population Division. This is roughly half the number of under-fives who died [...]
The world has made dramatic progress in improving health in the poorest countries and narrowing the gaps between countries with the best and worst health status in the past two decades, according to the World Health Statistics 2013. The WHO annual statistics report highlights how efforts to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have reduced health [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
One year after Pakistan’s worst flooding in decades, UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, continues to deliver comprehensive reproductive health care services as part of its humanitarian response. In August 2010, the Fund’s immediate response after the floods struck was to support basic reproductive health services for the displaced. Now, during the recovery phase, the [...]
New data site makes WHO data and analyses widely available An increasing number of countries are facing a double burden of disease as the prevalence of risk factors for chronic diseases such as diabetes, heart diseases and cancers increase and many countries still struggle to reduce maternal and child deaths caused by infectious diseases, for [...]
