June 30, 2009: The World Health Organization’s Maximizing Positive Synergies Collaborative Group has published its landmark report in The Lancet titled ‘An assessment of interactions between global health initiatives and country health systems.’ Sania Nishtar was part of the group and a co-author of the paper. Lancet...
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June 23, 2009: Sania Nishtar attends the World Health Organization’s high-level dialogue on ‘Maximizing Positive Synergies between Global Health Initiatives and Health Systems,’ held in Venice Italy, on June 22-23, 2009. Attends the meeting as Chair of the Drafting Committee of the Venice Statement on Health Systems and Global Health...
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June 22, 2009: A viewpoint titled ‘Equity, social justice and social sector’ by Sania Nishtar has been published in The News International. Full text is accessible at
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The purpose of this comment is to bring to the fore, some considerations relevant to equity, social justice and social...
Published in The News International on June 22, 2009:
The Finance Bill 2009, which gives effect to the financial proposals of the federal government for a year, is the government's key instrument of fiscal policy and in many ways, a reflection of its policy stance to achieve stated endpoints in...
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World Health Organization Maximizing Positive Synergies Collaborative Group, Samb B, Evans T, Dybul M, Atun R, Moatti JP, Nishtar S, Wright A, Celletti F, Hsu J, Kim JY, Brugha R, Russell A, Etienne C. An assessment of interactions between global health initiatives and country health systems. Lancet...
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June 11, 2009: A viewpoint titled ‘Budget 2009-10 and the public-private mantra’ by Sania Nishtar has been published in The News International. Full text is accessible at
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With Budget 2009-10 just around the corner, the purpose of this comment is to draw attention to the related issues...
June 11, 2009: The third consultation on the draft ‘Institutional Integration of Population and Health in Pakistan’ and was held at Serena Hotel, Islamabad.
Context: this had Federal Secretary Health in the chair .The MoPW was represented by DG Population. Other participants included coordinators of the LHW program and Health Policy...
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Published in The News International on June 11, 2009:
The government has decided to increase spending in the development sector in the coming year as is evidenced by the expansionary fiscal policy adopted in the forthcoming budget for the year 2009-10. Approval of the highest ever Public Sector Development...
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