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Fauzia Waqar

  • 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...

  • February 25, 2020

    Food and tourism

    Pakistan is blessed with several tourism opportunities – cultural, religious or nautical tourism.With an improved security situation, and through...

  • December 30, 2019

    Social protection

    Widespread under-nutrition, especially iron deficiency, determines a range of negative consequences impacting the welfare of individuals and...

  • December 14, 2019

    Iron-deficient generation

    Iron deficiency poses a severe and alarming public health problem. It’s quite widespread in developing countries facing malnutrition for most of...

  • September 04, 2019

    Water for all

    The World Water Week, from August till August 30, this year had the theme: ‘Water for Society: Including All’. The purpose of conducting a water...

  • August 07, 2019

    Combatting hepatitis

    The world marks July 28 as World Hepatitis Day with an aim to create awareness about the disease, its prevention, diagnosis and treatment. Global...