Lives on the Line: An Agenda for Ending Preventable Deaths
The launch of Annual EVERY ONE Campaign report “Lives on the Line” on 23rd October, 2013; is meant to invigorate the MDGs commitment and advocate for a final global impetus towards the unfinished...
View ArticlePakistan’s Population: New Realities and Challenges for Human Development
Pakistan is currently the 6th most populous country in the world and is on the verge of becoming the 5th most populous. In terms of demography, it is a ‘young country’, where 50% of its population is...
View ArticleHeartfile Health Financing story of Anayat
According to the UNFPA, every day 20,000 girls under the age of 18 give birth in developing countries. There are in effect 20,000 dire untold stories of gender inequity, malnutrition, survival and...
View ArticlePakistan’s 2013 MDG Report: A reality check
Last month, the Planning Commission and the United Nations Development Project jointly released Pakistan’s Millennium Development Goals Report. The comprehensive report, fifth in its series was aimed...
View ArticleAIDS Today: The Facts, Figures, and Trajectory of a Global Illness
AIDS TODAY: The facts, figures, and trajectory of a global illness. Over much of the last 30 years AIDS contraction has accelerated. But it’s finally stabilized. CURRENT HOTSPOTS: North America: 1.1...
View ArticleIFPRI’s 2013 Global Food Policy Report launch
“Central to post-2015 development agenda discussions is the goal of eliminating extreme poverty by 2030. Though ambitious and laudable, this goal is not enough. With one in eight people suffering from...
View ArticleCSOs contribution to universal health coverage into the Post-2015 agenda
Central to the post-2015 development agenda discussions is the goal of achieving universal health coverage as a quest for better health care, a demand for equity and a promise to eliminating extreme...
View ArticleBuilding better links between WASH and the health sector – the role of...
Today marks World Water Day, an opportunity to remind ourselves of the severe dearth of services and facilities that provide adequate water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) conditions across the world....
View ArticleGlobal Health Pledge
It’s World Health Day today. Year after year, the day serves to draw attention to pressing global health matters. With the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) soon to expire and discussions on a...
View ArticleInnovative approaches are call of the hour for sustainable development
Today, as I write this article, it shocks me that Pakistan is only left with 1.53 years to achieve Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Government of Pakistan has adopted 16 targets and 41 indicators....
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