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15 08, 2018

High number of Dental Practitioners lacking adequate qualifications

2018-09-05T19:57:10+00:00

Says the dentist to population ratio is Pakistan is 1:1,305,811, while the WHO standard for developing countries is 1:75,000  Dental hygiene is a new concept in Pakistan and in many countries of the developing world it is still unknown. There are approximately 40,000 non-qualified dental practitioners in Pakistan. The dentist to population ratio in the [...]

15 05, 2018

SIUT’s Centre for Biomedical Ethics & Culture joins WHO

2018-05-27T02:30:20+00:00

The Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation Centre of Biomedical Ethics and Culture designated as World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre in Bioethics at a special ceremony held at SIUT, Karachi.  This is the first such centre in the entire Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMRO) of WHO in which Pakistan is included along with 21 other [...]

16 07, 2016

Rate of new HIV infections increased over past decade

2017-04-26T12:34:49+00:00

New research on HIV worldwide raises 'significant challenges' to ending the AIDS pandemic, despite progress in lowering AIDS mortality AIDS deaths are falling in most countries worldwide, but the rate of new infections increased in several countries over the past decade, threatening to undermine efforts to end the AIDS epidemic by 2030, a new scientific [...]

15 10, 2013

Women’s Rights in the Fight against HIV and AIDS

2017-04-26T12:35:07+00:00

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 [...]

15 08, 2013

10 interventions equals a million children saved

2017-04-26T12:35:08+00:00

?Pakistan, Afghanistan, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda are among the 34 countries around the globe most affected by childhood malnutrition. If just 10 key nutrition interventions are scaled up to 90 per cent coverage in these countries, nearly 15 per cent of all deaths in children under five can be prevented, and at least a fifth [...]

15 05, 2012

Reduction of Preterm Births Can Ensure that Pregnancies go to Full Term

2012-07-01T15:46:42+00:00

      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, [...]