Every year, tens of millions of Pakistanis demonstrate they can quit. The question is why the state fails to see this opportunity to help them make it permanent? A recent Ramazan transmission moment went viral — a caller asked a mufti whether...
Karachi, March 5, 2026 — Heartfile, in collaboration with the Department of Food Science and Technology at the University of Karachi, organized a dissemination program to share new evidence on industrially produced trans fatty acids (iTFA) in street foods and cooking fats used in Pakistan.The event...
2 March 2026: Financing of NCD Prevention in LMICs, a 10 country case study by Heartfile” gets published in the current supplement of JPMA. Access full text articles of all case studies here
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NCDs are the biggest global killers and the leading cause of preventable morbidity and disability but have remained outside of development planning in the past. With the inclusion of NCDs as a target in SDG 3, countries are beginning to accord attention to NCDs. However sustainable domestic financing to implement...