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Health

Forests, environment and climate change budgets overlook the marginalised

Budget 2022 has not worked to realise the commitments the prime minister made at COP26. The most marginalised have not been considered in the...

OWSA Contributor - 4 February 2022

Health

Endgame for Polio in Pakistan

Pakistan recently reported that its campaign to eradicate polio reached a critical milestone with no cases reported for a year. By Zofeen Ebrahim / Inter...

Inter Press Service - 3 February 2022

Agriculture

Budget 2022: Disappointment for social sector

The total union budget expenditure as a proportion of the GDP has declined to 15.3 per cent in 2021-22 from 16.2 per cent in...

OWSA Contributor - 3 February 2022

COVID-19

Omicron sweeps across 57 countries: WHO

The past week saw a decrease in the number of COVID-19 cases in the Americas and the South-East Asia Region, including India. However the...

OWSA Staff - 2 February 2022

Afghanistan

Pneumonia killing Afghan children: Save the Children

The UK-based charity, Save the Children says that countless families across Afghanistan are battling the bitter winter in freezing and damaged homes, unable to...

OWSA Contributor - 1 February 2022

COVID-19

Tonnes of COVID-19 health care waste expose urgent need to improve waste management systems

About 87,000 tonnes of personal protective equipment procured between March 2020 and November 2021 to support countries’ urgent COVID-19 response needs is expected to...

OWSA Staff - 1 February 2022

Children

Leprosy in the midst of COVID-19 pandemic in Nepal

Cases of leprosy detected among migrant labourers returning from their employment abroad has reignited the conversation on the much-stigmatised disease. Doctors in Jhapa, Nepal have...

OWSA Contributor - 31 January 2022

Health