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Preventive healthcare

Early childhood development

Polio Reappears In Pakistan After 15 Month Gap

The type 1 wild polio virus (WPVI) was confirmed in a toddler from the North Waziristan district of Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. The same...

OWSA Contributor - 24 April 2022

Accountability

Sri Lanka’s Economic Crisis Cripples Health Services

Until 2021 the country had a strong healthcare sector, but today, Sri Lanka has run out of hard currency to buy basic medicines. Medical...

SciDevNet - 23 April 2022

Child mortality

So Close, Yet So Far: Three Decades of Injecting Immunity Into Children in Pakistan

Pakistan might have come a long way in reducing child morbidity and mortality over the past 30 years, nevertheless, cases of vaccine preventable diseases...

Khushi Malhotra - 18 April 2022

Afghanistan

Could 2022 Be The Endgame For Polio?

Polio close to eradication but vaccination must continue. COVID-19 restrictions brought down polio cases but disrupted routine immunisation systems, especially in Afghanistan and Pakistan,...

SciDevNet - 9 April 2022

Health

From the Coronavirus to the Arbovirus: WHO launches bid to stop a new pandemic

The UN health agency has launched its plan to prevent a hitherto unfamiliar virus-caused pandemic from Arbovirus strain that causes life-threatening mosquito-borne illnesses, such...

OWSA Staff - 1 April 2022

COVID-19

Misinformation Fuelling and Uptick of COVID-19 Worldwide, says WHO

Misinformation that the pandemic is over and other factors like the lifting of mask mandates and ending physical distancing – exaggerated by a more...

OWSA Staff - 17 March 2022

Afghanistan

Eight polio workers killed in Afghanistan

Eight people, all part of a polio vaccination drive, were killed in simultaneous attacks in Afghanistan on Wednesday, say reports arriving from Kabul. Eight polio...

OWSA Contributor - 25 February 2022

Afghanistan

Red Cross: Global support critical for Afghanistan as COVID-19, measles run rampant

Health facilities have shut down for lack essential medical supplies and funds to pay for utilities and salaries. Aid groups have sounded an upcoming health...

OWSA Staff - 24 February 2022

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