Monthly Archives: July 2011
Devolving health – a way forward (Part I)
Published in The News International on July 23, 2011:
On June 28, a notification of the Government of Pakistan articulated a plan for completing the process of devolving many subjects, including health, as part of the final stages of implementing the 18th Constitutional Amendment. As a consequence, the Ministry of Health...
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HEARTFILE FINANCING: HONORING VOLUNTEERS SERIES
July 19, 2011. The Heartfile Health Financing program, which relies on volunteers to achieve its objective of protecting poor patients against medical impoverishment, has recently honored its star volunteer, Mrs. Naheed Batool—a befitting response to the UN Secretary General’s call on people around the world to carry out volunteer work to mark the...
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LEVERAGING HIV FOR NCDS CARE
July 18, 2011: Many lessons can be drawn from the scale-up of HIV services in low-income countries for institutionalizing care for non-communicable diseases (NCDs). Such insights are useful as the international community and domestic policy planners converge during the upcoming UN High Level NCDs Summit this September to draw strategies...
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BUILDING PAKISTAN’S HUMAN CAPITAL: A FOCUS ON HEALTH AND EDUCATION
July 08, 2011: The US Institute of Peace in collaboration with another Washington based think tank, the Institute of Social Policy and Understanding, held a panel discussion on the captioned subject in Washington on June 14, 2010. Panelists included Dr. Sania Nishtar, Dr. Attiya Khan, Naveed Hassan Naqvi and Mr....
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TDR REPORT PREVIEW
July 6, 2011: Dr. Sania Nishtar chaired the preview of TDR’s IDEAS (Infectious Diseases, Evidence for Action) Report on June 14 at the Global Health Council meeting in Washington. The global report on research priorities for infectious diseases of poverty “offers new ways of improving public health in poor countries, with...
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