Islamabad: Today, the governments of the United States and Pakistan, together with American power company AES Corporation, agreed to create a public-public partnership to develop a 150-megawatt, $375 million (Rs. 32 billion) wind power generation project in the Gharo Corridor of Pakistan. The project will produce 150 megawatts of new, “clean” power serving some 600,000 [...]

Lahore: Warid Telecom (Pvt.) Ltd supports Pink Ribbon to spread awareness about breast cancer in Pakistan. Pakistan has the highest rate of breast cancer for any Asian population in the world. It is the most frequent malignancy in women, where it accounts for 38.5% of all female cancers. About half (43.7%) of all breast cancers [...]

Pakistan’s Maternal and Child Health indicators remain extremely poor every year as 25,000 to 30,000 women die from complications of pregnancy and child birth. Millions more suffer ill health and disability. One million children die before the age of 5 while 16,000 die in the first month after birth. Pakistan is fully committed to the [...]

GENEVA — Millions of people with common, but untreated, mental, neurological and substance use disorders can now benefit from new simplified diagnosis and treatment guidelines released today by WHO. The guidelines are designed to facilitate the management of depression, alcohol use disorders, epilepsy and other common mental disorders in the primary health-care The Intervention guide [...]

Deaths during Childbirth Unacceptable in Twenty-first Century, Secretary-General Says, at Americans for UNFPA Event Honouring Health, Dignity of Women Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, to the Americans for UNFPA (United Nations Population Fund) Gala Dinner for the Health and Dignity of Women, in New York on 7 October: It [...]

World Health Organization is playing a major role in the response to the flood emergency providing medicines, deploying health staff and restoring primary health care. The destruction of many Basic Health Units (BHU) and medical centres has severely affected the level of health care available for people. Many people that were displaced during the floods [...]