HPV Vaccination Campaign Extended as Millions of Girls Remain Unvaccinated ISLAMABAD – The ongoing cervical cancer prevention campaign has reached 6.7 million girls in just 11 days, achieving vaccine coverage of 65% in Sindh, 63% in Punjab, 35% in Azad Kashmir, and 34% in Islamabad. Despite the effort, around four million girls remain unvaccinated due […]
Dengue Larvae Found at Chughtai Lab as Rawalpindi Grapples with Rising Cases Rawalpindi – Authorities have registered a case at Bani Police Station following a complaint by the District Health Authority (DHA) after dengue larvae were discovered at Chughtai Lab. According to the FIR, stagnant water on the lab’s roof and inside a generator filter […]
Pakistan Engages Leaders to Boost HPV Vaccination Campaign ISLAMABAD – The Ministry of Health is set to reach out to political and religious leaders as part of a nationwide push to promote the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine. Officials familiar with the plan said the government aims to persuade these leaders of the importance of the […]
The average rate of teens beginning treatment with the highly effective Novo Nordisk drug grew 50% last year to 14.8 prescriptions per 100,000 adolescents, according to an analysis by health data firm Truveta. That’s up from a rate of 9.9 prescriptions per 100,000 in 2023, the first full year that Wegovy was available to children […]
According to sources, the Regional Reference Laboratory has confirmed the presence of the polio virus in samples collected from 25 districts across the country. The samples were collected from sewage lines between February 3 and 12, and the results revealed the presence of Wild Poliovirus Type 1 in several districts. In Sindh, 13 districts, including […]
According to NEOC, the polio case was reported in Thatta Sindh, bringing the total provincial number in 2025 to four and countrywide to six. Yesterday, the Pakistan Polio Eradication Program, detected two polio cases in the Qambar district in Sindh and Mandi Bahauddin district in Punjab. This brings the total number of polio cases in […]
According to sources, this is the first time in 2025 that the virus has been found in environmental samples across the country. Sources revealed that sewage samples collected from January 6 to 15 tested positive for poliovirus in 26 districts. The affected districts include 15 from Sindh, 5 from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and 3 each from […]
According to the Ministry of Health’s spokesperson, the patient, who recently returned from Dubai on January 24, was identified through screening at the Peshawar airport. The suspected case tested positive, bringing the total number of mpox cases in the country to 10 since the health emergency was declared. The patient has been transferred to Services […]
The CDC said the patient’s sample showed mutations in the hemagglutinin (HA) gene, the part of the virus that plays a key role in its attaching to host cells. The health body said, opens new tab the risk to the general public from the outbreak has not changed and remains low. US suffers first severe […]
The National Emergency Operation Centre (NEOC) for Polio Eradication reported that a one-and-a-half-year-old infant in the Chaman district’s Qila Abdullah neighborhood has been affected by polio. The information indicated that this is the seventh case reported from the Kila Abdullah area. In total, Balochistan province has recorded 27 polio cases thus far in the current […]
