2 January 2013, Islamabad – Figures collected from various official sources and surveys provide evidence of the current outbreak of measles in different parts of Pakistan resulting from insufficient rates of routine immunization coverage, the World Health Organization confirmed here on Wednesday. The WHO Representative for Pakistan, Dr Guido...

18 December 2012, Islamabad – The World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF join the Government of Pakistan and the provinces of Sindh and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in condemning the multiple attacks that have killed six health workers in the past 24 hours. At least six people working on a polio vaccination campaign have been reported shot dead in...

10 December 2012 – A one-day consultation workshop with the provincial health department of Punjab was conducted in Lahore on the institutionalization of national protocol (draft) on the health sector's response to gender-based violence under WHO’s gender and health programme, part of the One UN Gender Equality Initiative. The basic purpose of...

18 October 2012, Islamabad – A regional training workshop on improving the management of severe acute malnutrition and nutrition surveillance was Dr Ayoub AlJawaldeh, WHO Regional Adviser, Nutrition, addressing the workshoporganized by the Planning and Development Division of the Government of Pakistan, in collaboration with WHO, from 18 to 22 October...

The World Health Organization has announced that it will pay front-line polio eradication workers directly in 10 districts in the upcoming September The direct disbursement mechanism will better reward and motivate vaccinators and other field workers who face challenging circumstances in their efforts to reach every child with polio vaccinesubnational...

Dr Ala Alwan, WHO Regional Director for the Eastern Mediterranean, attends the fourth meeting of the National Task Force on Polio Eradication in PakistanIslamabad, 7 August 2012 – Dr Ala Alwan, WHO Regional Director for the Eastern Mediterranean, has praised the efforts of the Government of Pakistan in decreasing the number of polio cases in...

A young boy receives a polio vaccine during a national immunization day in Pakistan5 August 2012 – Poliovirus has been found in sewage water samples collected from Gaddap town in Karachi. Samples have previously been clear for about 4 months. Gaddap town is one of the poliovirus reservoirs in the country. Substantial efforts have been made over...

7 August 2012 – Dr Ala Alwan, WHO Regional Director for the Eastern Mediterranean, Dr Ala Alwan, WHO Regional Director for the Eastern Mediterranean attends national polio eradication meeting in Pakistanvisited Pakistan for one day to discuss WHO technical support to the Government of Pakistan in light of the polio emergency and to identify...

Mr. Muhammad Ishaq in Polio compaignKARACHI/NEW YORK/GENEVA, 21 July 2012 – The World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF are deeply saddened by the killing of , a local community worker who was part of the polio eradication initiative in Pakistan. Mr. Ishaq was shot and killed in the Gadap town area of Karachi on Friday evening. Polio...

WHO staff member surveys the flooding of the Johi–Chinni road 11 July 2012 – The district of Dadu borders Balochistan and the mountainous range of Khirthar. Due to heavy rains in Khuzdar and Kalat, water levels of the Nai Gaj river rose and the river breached its banks. Water has reached the Kachho area of Johi. Ten villages have been surrounded and...