On the occasion of World Pneumonia Day, Ojha Institute of Chest Diseases (OICD), Dow University of Health Sciences organized a Seminar at Ojha Campus Karachi. Prof. Dr. Nisar Rao, Director (OICD), Dr. Nadeem Ahmed, Dr. Aisha Wajeeh, Dr. Faheem, Dr. Raheela Kashif, Dr. Farzana Mumtaz and Dr. Mirza Saifullah Baig besides seminar faculty members of [...]
Rotary has announced nearly 100 million dollars in grants to support the global efforts to end polio—a vaccine preventable disease that once paralyzed hundreds of thousands of children every in a year. The announcement comes as Nigeria marks two years without any reported cases of wild poliovirus, following four reported cases in 2016, said press [...]
A new report by UNAIDS shows that 19 million of the 35 million people living with HIV globally do not know their HIV-positive status. "Whether you live or die should not depend on access to an HIV test," said Michel Sidibé, Executive Director of UNAIDS. "Smarter scale-up is needed to close the gap between people who know [...]
A new UN report warns the HIV epidemic in Asia and the Pacific is at a pivotal juncture with little progress in reducing new infections. AIDS researchers and activists are calling for more political will by governments to address related issues. The report, launched by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, says 4.9 million people are living [...]
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, [...]
