Gender-based violence (GBV) covers domestic violence, sexual violence, psychological abuse, economic abuse, stalking, early forced marriages, forced pregnancy, trafficking, cybercrime, and other specific harmful practices including cutting or biting any part of body. These are deep-rooted societal issues that undermine the dignity,
KARACHI: While nurses have a critical role in improving healthcare access and quality, their workforce in Pakistan is highly underpaid and overworked — two key barriers impeding their performance and growth, shared speakers at a seminar held on 4th February at Hamdard
Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah on 03-February-2025 launched the February 2025 National Immunisation Days campaign by administering polio drops to children at an official ceremony at the CM House. The initiative aims to immunise over 10.6 million children under five
The Karachi administration on 01-February-2025 launched a direct outreach campaign to engage parents who had refused polio vaccinations for their children in recent drives, in an effort to bolster polio eradication efforts. The initiative aims to ensure full parental cooperation, so no
“In this country we’re not even counted based on accurate data, let alone having the opportunity to list our issues,” lamented Sindh Education Minister Syed Sardar Ali Shah during a youth conference on February 1. Titled ‘Challenges and Solutions for 21st Century
With 80,804 children missed during December’s anti-polio campaign, including 45,215 whose parents refused vaccination, Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah has vowed to eliminate the poliovirus from the province this year by reaching every child through upcoming drives and routine immunisation.
Police have reunited two children, who had gone missing in the Tariq Road area, with their parents. According to Sindh Police Madadgar 15, a citizen had informed the police about the children. For finding the children, the parents expressed gratitude to the
Half of the quarter-billion students who faced academic interruptions were in India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Afghanistan KARACHI: In South Asia, the climate crisis has made monsoons fiercer, heatwaves more severe, and floods more relentless —transforming nature’s wrath from a distant threat into an
Formula milk companies are lobbying to have breast milk substitutes or formula milk declared as ‘food’ to remove it from the purview of health and medicine authorities, enabling them to freely market their products without regulatory oversight, health experts warned on 25
Listen KARACHI: Sharing concern over the country’s high infant mortality and morbidity rates, health experts on 25th January stated that the single step that can help mothers save the lives of their babies is to breastfeed them, at least exclusively for the