Patients Helping Hands in collaboration with WHO, UNICEF and EPI launched a 2-days awareness campaign in lieu of World Immunization Week recently at National Institute of Child Health, Karachi. A Conference was also arranged with multiple eminent paediatricians discussing various aspects of immunization, its significance, the current statistics of the country and the future eradication [...]
The (IMB) is an oversight mechanism of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI). The meeting was chaired by Madam Shahnaz Wazir Ali, Technical Provincial Coordinator and Mr. Paul Rutter Member IMB. Attendees included Dr. Muahmmad Usman Chachar Coordinator EOC Sindh, Team leaders and members of WHO and UNICEF Sindh, Rotary Pakistan, N Stop as well [...]
The Association of People Living with HIV (APLHIV) Pakistan is a nationwide network of HIV community in Pakistan established in response to absence of an appropriate platform for the HIV community to raise their issues. Since its inception the APLHIV has emerged as a strong agency for Research, Advocacy, and Community based Monitoring and as [...]
New data released today by the United Nations show that under-five mortality rates have dropped by 49% between 1990 and 2013. The average annual reduction has accelerated – in some countries it has even tripled – but overall progress is still short of meeting the global target of a two-thirds decrease in under-five mortality by [...]
Experts at a Seminar revealed that in Pakistan, only 37 percent of infants under six months old are breastfed and despite the practice being strongly advised by global bodies including the WHO and UNICEF, only 28.8 percent of newborns are breastfed within the first hour of birth. They were addressing a Seminar organized by the [...]
On World Pneumonia Day, global health bodies highlight essential interventions that will help reduce burden of disease Pneumonia remains the single biggest killer of children under 5 globally, claiming the lives of more than 1 million girls and boys every year. But pneumonia deaths are preventable. As countries mark World Pneumonia Day on 12 November, [...]
The deaths of more than 74 000 children from Tuberculosis (TB) could be prevented each year through measures outlined in the first ever action plan developed specifically on TB and children. The Roadmap for Childhood TB: Toward Zero Deaths, launched by global TB leaders in Washington D.C., estimates that US$120 million per year could have a [...]
Three low cost interventions of oral rehydration, breastfeeding and community case management can save the lives of thousands of children under-five suffering from pneumonia and diarrhoea. This was disclosed by speakers at the seminar ‘Diarrhoea and Pneumonia: Global Action Plan and Implications for Pakistan’ held at Aga Khan University. The event was held to locally [...]
In 2012, approximately 6.6 million children worldwide – 18 000 children per day – died before reaching their fifth birthday, according to a new report released today by UNICEF, WHO, the World Bank Group and the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs/Population Division. This is roughly half the number of under-fives who died [...]
