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WHO responds to leishmaniasis in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
A patient with leishmaniasis receives an injection25 April 2017– A training workshop on the diagnosis, treatment and management of leishmaniasis was held in Peshawar on 10 April 2017, organized by World Health Organization (WHO) and the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Department of Health. Since January 2014, 22 112 cases of leishmaniasis have been reported in...
WHO/Scaling Up Nutrition Movement Mission to Pakistan
Participants at the UN Decade of Action on Nutrition workshop25 April 2017, Islamabad – A joint WHO/Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement Mission visited Pakistan on 10–12 April 2017. The Mission was led by Ms Gerda Verburg SUN Movement Coordinator and Assistant United Nations (UN) Secretary-General, together with Dr Francesco Branca, WHO Director...
Pakistan's polio surveillance network: the silent force behind eradication efforts
Dr Ujala Nayyar, WHO's Surveillance Officer for Punjab, checks the register in a doctor's clinic check for possible signs of polio. Anam Sairah Khan/WHO Pakistan 201720 April 2017 – In a small health facility in Sakhi Sarwar, a little town in Pakistan’s Punjab province, Dr Ujala Nayyar, WHO’s Surveillance Officer for Punjab, leans over a...
High-level mission to Pakistan to review the immunization programme in Pakistan
2 April 2017 – The high level mission from 7 to 9 March 2017 was conducted to review the immunization programme in Pakistan was joined by representatives from UNICEF, WHO, the World Bank, DFID, USAID, CDC and JICA. The main objectives of the mission was to engage with high-level federal and provincial authorities to leverage political support for...
Regional Director thanks United Arab Emirates for support of Polio Eradication Initiative in Pakistan
WHO delegation led by Dr M Fikri, WHO Regional Director, were received by H.E. Abdulaziz Alneyadi, First Secretary, United Arab Emirates embassy in Pakistan, and H.E. Abdulla Khalifa Al Ghufli, Director of United Arab Emirates Project to Assist PakistanIslamabad, 30 March 2017 – During his 2-day visit to Pakistan on 30–31 March 2017, Dr Mahmoud...
National consultative workshop on the role of the science community to address Pakistan’s health and nutrition challenges in the context of the SDGs
Pakistan Academy of Sciences22 March 2017 – A national consultative workshop was conducted on 6–7 March 2017 in Islamabad, Pakistan. The key purpose of the workshop was to discuss the role and engagement of science community, academia and civil society to address challenges in the perspective of achieving targets for health and nutrition under...
WHO statement recognizing the United Arab Emirate's contribution to polio eradication efforts in Pakistan
24 January 2017 – Humanity is on the verge of one the greatest public health achievements in history – eradicating polio. In 2016, fewer children were paralysed by polio than in any other year globally, and in Pakistan. Despite many challenges faced by the polio programme, Pakistan has made strides towards stopping transmission and in 2017 is the...
Ministry of National Health Services, Regulations and Coordination/WHO Joint Statement on the chikungunya virus
There have been unconfirmed reports of the presence of chikungunya virus in Karachi, Sindh, especially in areas of Malir. The Ministry of National Health Services, Regulations and Coordination, Department of Health of Sindh Province and World Health Organization (WHO) in Pakistan are working closely in the wake of these unconfirmed reports and...
Millions of children in Pakistan reached with polio vaccine thanks to United Arab Emirates campaign
With UAE PAP's support, millions of children have been reached with vital oral polio vaccine in the highest-risk areas of Pakistan.In the last week of August, more than 15.5 million children across Pakistan’s highest-risk districts received the most vital health interventions to protect them from polio: two drops of oral polio vaccine. Pakistan is close to...
Workshop on adverse events following immunization aims to enhance vaccine safety
25 August 2016, Islamabad – Within the context of efforts to enhance global vaccine safety and build and support a systemic approach to vaccine pharmacovigilance in all low- and middle-income countries, WHO is holding a workshop on adverse events following immunization (AEFI) surveillance and monitoring in Islamabad, Pakistan, from 22 to 26 August...
