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 [...]
Health Experts, politicians, policy makers and donors have unanimously agreed that maternal, newborn, child health (MNCH) and nutrition should be a national priority. The group strongly agreed that political parties should include it in their manifestoes and also advocate at their respective regional and national forums. They were speaking at a seminar on reproductive, maternal, [...]
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 [...]
MedRev Report Abbott Laboratories Pakistan in collaboration with Express Media Group as a part of Abbott Academic Alliance organized an Awareness Seminar titled ‘Zinc se Zindagi – Role of Zinc in daily life’ recently inKarachi. The aim of the Seminar was to raise awareness amongst doctors about the importance of Zinc in daily life. Experts [...]
The Pakistan Medical Association in collaboration with the Women’s Action Forum, Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, Pakistan Reproductive Health Network, Aurat Foundation, People’s Health Movement and Shirkat Gah organised a dialogue on “Health of People: Political Parties & Sindh Elections 2013” at a local hotel in Karachi. The main purpose behind the dialogue was [...]
If contraceptive prevalence can rise by 9% in districts such as Rajanpur, Charsadda, Sanghar and Mardan, the uptake of family planning use can also happen throughout the country, said Dr. Ali Mir, Chairperson FALAH, a project of the Population Council at a Seminar titled ‘Family Planning Revitalised - The Falah Experience’ held recently in Islamabad. [...]
HIV and AIDS has become a universal problem and a great challenge for Pakistan as there are more than one hundred thousand people living with HIV & AIDS in Pakistan and especially after interruptions in funding for the said field its intensity and severity as a challenge has heightened especially after recent devolution. This was [...]
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, [...]
At the end of this month, the population of the world reaches 7 billion. With the population of Pakistan standing at 174 million (officially) and growing rapidly, and with the highest unmet needs for healthy timing and spacing of pregnancies (HTSP) occurring in isolated rural areas, how do we approach this phenomenon? That was the [...]
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 [...]
Health accountability report presented at world health assembly The United Nations Commission on Information and Accountability for Women’s and Children’s Health presented their report, Keeping Promises, Measuring Results, and recommendations to increase the likelihood that pledges for women's and children's health are honoured and that resources are spent in the most effective way to save [...]
An Advocacy Seminar on “Rights Based Approached to Reproductive Health” was organized by Dow University of Health Sciences (DUHS) in collaboration with Reproductive Health Steering Committee and AAHUNG (an NGO working in the field of Reproductive health) recently at Dow Medical College, Karachi. This one day seminar was preceded by three day Hands-on workshop on [...]
