By Rizwan Ahmed Kiani, Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences, Islamabad Thalassemia is an inherited genetic disorder associated with low hemoglobin due to defective production of hemoglobin and too much destruction of red blood cells. These are caused by mutation in ? or ? globin genes of haemoglobin. Haemoglobin production is affected in red blood cells, [...]
New book illustrates how food insecurity, malnutrition, obesity, and cultural disconnection plague the global agricultural system and demand solutions from around the world Worldwide, 30 percent of food is wasted, 1 billion people go to bed hungry each night while another 1 billion suffer from health problems related to obesity, and agriculture contributes to [...]
In order to strengthen the capacity of National TB Control Program (NTP) staff in the area of electronic surveillance at BMU/district level, the program has embarked on an initiative to launch web-based TB surveillance system (WEB TBS) in collaboration with WHO. The framework would cover all the components of the stop TB strategy including drug [...]
Dr. Ala Alwan will, on February 1, 2012, take up his appointment as the new regional director for the World Health Organisation’s Eastern Mediterranean Region (WHO-EMRO) headquartered in Cairo. He will take over from Dr. Hussein Abdel-Razzak Al Gezairy for a five-year term. In a related development, Dr. Margaret Chan has been nominated for a [...]
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 [...]
