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15 01, 2016

Dissemination Seminar of JSI – DELIVER PROJECT Supported Logistics & Supply Chain Policy Guidelines and Manuals

2017-04-26T12:34:53+00:00

By Muhammad Fareed Since 2009, the Government of Sindh has benefited from U.S. Government (USG) support through John Snow Incorporated (JSI) – DELIVER PROJECT (component 4 of the USAID | Maternal and Child Health Program). The project improves essential health commodity supply chains by strengthening logistics management information systems (LMIS), streamlining warehousing and distribution systems, [...]

15 07, 2015

USAID works to enhance child nutrition in Sindh

2017-04-26T12:34:54+00:00

The US Agency for International Development (USAID) funded Sindh Community Mobilization Program organized a Conference titled “Child Nutrition in Sindh: Challenges and Opportunities”  recently at a local hotel in Karachi. The Conference was attended by officials from the Sindh Health including Fazlullah Pechuho, Education Secretary, Saeed Ahmed Mangnejo, Health Secretary, Randy Hatfield, USAID Senior Policy [...]

15 04, 2015

Aga Khan University to train Health Department officials

2015-04-26T15:27:08+00:00

The Sindh Health Department’s district and provincial managers will for the first time be able to enroll in a graduate-level health policy and management programme while continuing to work, as part of an initiative to build capacity to improve the health delivery system in the province. Under an agreement signed today by the Aga Khan [...]

15 08, 2014

USAID to fund construction of new 120-bed maternity ward at JPMC

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

Consul General of the United States of America in Karachi Michael J Dodman and Chief Minister Sindh Syed Qaim Ali Shah jointly performed the ground breaking ceremony of construction of a new 120-bed maternity ward at Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC). The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is providing $6 million to fund [...]

15 06, 2014

USAID awards scholarships to Sindh students

2017-04-26T12:35:01+00:00

United States Agency for International Development (USAID) awarded scholarships to 102 students enrolled in Associated Diploma in Education (ADE) and Bachelor of Education (B.Ed) (Hons) programmes in Sindh as part of the $165 million Pakistan Reading Project. USAID provincial Director for Sindh and Balochistan Leon S Waskin also acting US Consul General for Sindh attended [...]

15 04, 2014

National Seminar with Stakeholders on World TB Day

2017-04-26T12:35:02+00:00

To commemorate World TB Day 2014, National TB Control Program Islamabad organized a National Seminar with Stakeholders at Pakistan National Council of the Arts (PNCA) in Islamabad. TB patients, their families, health care/service providers, volunteers from Pakistan Girls Guide Association & Pakistan Boy Scouts, local community elders/members, representatives of donor agencies, INGOs, NGOs and officials [...]

15 02, 2014

Early childhood education system not yet introduced

2017-04-26T12:35:02+00:00

The early childhood education system has still not been introduced in the schools of Sindh although its syllabus has been approved by the government. The early childhood programme is facing lots of difficulties because concrete steps have not been taken to implement it in the primary schools of the province. The programme entitled ‘Releasing Confidence [...]

15 11, 2013

New health resource to improve access to family planning for women after childbirth

2013-11-22T10:02:46+00:00

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 [...]

15 10, 2013

First-ever targeted roadmap outlines steps to end childhood TB deaths

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

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 [...]

15 02, 2013

Need for introduction of Typhoid vaccination program in Sindh stressed

2017-04-26T12:35:10+00:00

Trust for Vaccines & Immunization (TVI) in collaboration with Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI), Sindh and International Vaccine Institute (IVI) SeoulKorea organized a Typhoid Consultation Meeting at a local hotel in Karachi. The objective of the Meeting was to bring together government stakeholders, policy decision makers, donor agencies and non-governmental institutions to discuss typhoid control [...]

15 02, 2013

Experts urge making MNCH national priority

2017-04-26T12:35:14+00:00

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, [...]

15 01, 2013

Need for introduction of Typhoid vaccination program in Sindh stressed

2017-04-26T12:35:14+00:00

Trust for Vaccines & Immunization (TVI) in collaboration with Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI), Sindh and International Vaccine Institute (IVI) SeoulKorea organized a Typhoid Consultation Meeting at a local hotel in Karachi. The objective of the Meeting was to bring together government stakeholders, policy decision makers, donor agencies and non-governmental institutions to discuss typhoid control [...]

15 01, 2013

USAID to provide $10 million for Jacobabad hospital

2017-04-26T12:35:14+00:00

Sindh Health Minister Dr. Sagheer Ahmed has said that with the help of donor friends, steps are being taken to further strengthen health facilities throughout the province specially in far-flung areas of Sindh. He was addressing at the MoU signing ceremony of Jacobabad Institute of Medical Sciences between the Sindh government and USAID. The MoU [...]

15 01, 2013

Experts urge making MNCH national priority

2017-04-26T12:35:14+00:00

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, [...]

15 04, 2012

World TB Day being observed in Pakistan with cautious optimism

2017-04-26T12:35:17+00:00

World Tuberculosis Day falling on Saturday the 24th March is being commemorated all over the world including Pakistan with commitment and renewed enthusiasm to save lives from a preventable and curable disease. Elaborate programs have been organized on this occasion. The WHO Representative in Pakistan Dr Guido Sabatinelli has called for all out efforts to [...]