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WHO and Pakistan call for urgent investment to end tuberculosis
Special Secretary, Ministry of National Health Services, Mirza Nasir-ud-Din Mashud, and Deputy WHO Representative M. Ellen Thom during the commemoration of World Tuberculosis Day 2025 at WHO Pakistan premises26 March 2025, Islamabad, Pakistan – On the occasion of World Tuberculosis (TB) Day, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Government...
WHO supports “Big Catch-Up” initiative to vaccinate 2.8 million children in Pakistan
A vaccinator administering a routine dose in a remote area of Pakistan. Photo credit: WHO Pakistan23 March 2025, Islamabad, Pakistan – During the first and second rounds of the Big Catch-Up immunization campaign, the World Health Organization (WHO) partnered with the Government of Pakistan to administer lifesaving vaccines to 2.8 million...
Pakistan closer to ending neonatal tetanus after new WHO validations
A lady health worker administering a tetanus-diphtheria vaccine to a pregnant woman in a remote area of Pakistan. Photo credit: WHO Pakistan20 March 2025, Islamabad, Pakistan – Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) and Pakistan-Administered Kashmir (PAK) have achieved the elimination of maternal and neonatal tetanus (MNT), taking Pakistan closer to...
WHO validation for Sindh brings Pakistan closer to ending neonatal tetanus
Fatima, a Lady Health Worker, is administering the Tetanus-diphtheria (Td) vaccine to a pregnant woman in the rural area of Thatta, Sindh. Photo: WHO Pakistan 28 February 2025, Karachi/Islamabad, Pakistan – The elimination of maternal and neonatal tetanus (MNT) in Sindh province, recently validated by the World Health Organization (WHO), marks a...
WHO urges all partners to renew support for Pakistan as it advances universal health coverage
8 December 2024, Islamabad, Pakistan – Ahead of International Universal Health Coverage Day, celebrated annually on 12 December, World Health Organization (WHO) Representative in Pakistan Dr Dapeng Luo urged stakeholders and donors to strengthen their support for the Government of Pakistan as it seeks to expand universal health coverage (UHC),...
WHO Pakistan commemorates World Patient Safety Day 2024
23 September 2024 – To commemorate #WorldPatientSafetyDay2024, World Health Organization (WHO) Pakistan, in collaboration with the Ministry of National Health Services Regulations & Coordination, organized an awareness raising walk and advocacy seminar to foster collective efforts to improve diagnosis. Representatives from WHO, Ministry of...
WHO and BISP sign a US$ 6.257 million agreement under the Benazir Nashonuma programme to combat stunting and malnutrition in Pakistan
“Together, we are taking a vital step towards combating malnutrition and ensuring a healthier future for our children" 25 September 2024, Islamabad, Pakistan – The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) have signed an agreement to work together to tackle malnutrition in Pakistan. The agreement was signed by...
Scaling up action on malnutrition in Pakistan
25 September 2024, Islamabad – On 24 September, the World Health Organization signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP). The agreement covers the management of 169 nutrition stabilization centres at district headquarter hospitals and a number of tehsil headquarter hospitals across the country and...
Pakistan addresses family planning bottlenecks
27 August, Islamabad, Pakistan – A 2-day workshop convened by the Ministry of National Health Services, Regulation and Coordination (MoNHSR&C) on 7–8 August 2024 at COMSTECH Islamabad brought together stakeholders to validate the preliminary findings of its bottleneck analysis (BNA) of family planning in Pakistan. WHO provided the Ministry with...
Promoting integrated service delivery: programmatic integration in Pakistan
15 September 2024, Pakistan – A landmark collaboration between the tuberculosis (TB) and reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health (RMNCAH) programmes has started in the Charsadda district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. Following WHO Pakistan’s support for the supply of essential medicines and equipment to strengthen TB and...
