New report by UNAIDS highlights the urgent need to implement a human rights and evidence-informed approach to reach people who inject drugs with essential health services A report released by UNAIDS shows that despite a decline in new HIV infections globally, HIV incidence is not declining among people who inject drugs (1.4% worldwide in 2017). [...]
Minister of State for Health, Mrs. Saira Afzal Tarar chaired the first meeting of the Task Force on mental health. The Minister on this occasion said that the issues of right discrimination and exploitation by non professionals of people with mental health and mental disorders need be addressed by better awareness and education of the [...]
By Muhammad Fareed The global HIV and AIDS pandemic is taking a catastrophic toll on women and girls. The number of HIV infections among women and girls has risen in every region in recent years, and in sub-Saharan Africa, women and girls constitute nearly 60 percent of those living with HIV. In some countries, the [...]
Dow University of Health Sciences (DUHS) organized a Ceremony to honour Pakistani Director and Oscar Award Winner Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoey and Dow Alumni Dr. Mohammad Ali Jawwad, Member Oscar Winning Team and Plastic Surgeon behind repairing faces of acid victims were honoured by his mother institution for his contribution in ‘Saving Face’ with Gold Medal and [...]
Since most people living with HIV in the Eastern Mediterranean Region of the World Health Organisation (WHO), of which Pakistan is also a part, do not know that they are infected with the virus, or are not known to the health system, regional treatment coverage is still the lowest globally. This fact has come to [...]
