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Sunday December 03, 2023
Dr Fauzia Waqar

  • October 23, 2023

    Health in the grey

    Pakistanis buy food at a utility store in Islamabad. — AFP/FileFood safety pertains to the practices and protocols employed to prevent...

  • September 25, 2023

    A looming climate crisis

    The term ‘climate change’ often raises issues of melting ice caps, raging wildfires, and rising sea levels. However, beneath these environmental...

  • August 24, 2023

    Climate through a gender lens

    The alarming reality of climate change has managed to get through to a large swathe of the population, with its implications on human health...

  • June 06, 2023

    Security for the future

    The impact of natural calamities on malnutrition is undeniably devastating, with a global increase in hunger, inadequate access to nutritious food,...

  • May 18, 2023

    For our children

    Most children in Pakistan continue to suffer from nutritional anaemia, particularly iron deficiency. There has been little improvement over the...

  • March 19, 2022

    Anaemic generation

    Nutritional anaemia has been identified as the most common and prevalent type of malnourishment in Pakistan among children. This is not a recent...

  • February 03, 2022

    Fortification interventions

    Poor dietary intake, especially iron, results in deprived mental and physical health, frequent illness and unhealthy population. This type of...

  • January 05, 2022

    Expensive nutrition

    For years, the health burden linked with children and mothers has been largely ignored. If girls at their adolescent or reproductive age are...

  • April 27, 2021

    Improving dairy

    Why is Pakistan not utilizing one of its most significant produce, available in abundant quantity, to increase its exports? Pakistan is the fourth...

  • March 13, 2020

    Our polio failure

    The continued transmission of the poliovirus in Pakistan has become a major public health problem, as it is one of only few remaining polio-endemic...