Global Electricity Review 2025
<p>In a world of higher electricity demand growth, clean electricity is stepping up to the challenge. Spearheaded by exponential solar expansion, clean power is set to grow faster than demand, marking
Pakistan
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WHO global surveillance and monitoring system for substandard and falsified medical products
<p>Approximately 10.5% of medicines in low and middle income countries including India are sub-standard and falsified, said WHO in this report.</p>
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Improved diagnostics fail to halt the rise of tuberculosis
<p>TB remains a big killer despite the development of a better test for detecting the disease.</p> <p><strong><a href="https://www.nature.com/news/improved-diagnostics-fail-to-halt-the-rise-of-tuberculosis-1.23000"
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Tackling the health burden of air pollution in South Asia
<p>Air pollution exposure is the second most important risk factor for ill health in South Asia, contributing to between 13% and 21.7% of all deaths and approximately 58 million disability adjusted life
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Volt-face
HOVING into view behind a row of eucalyptus trees, the twin cooling towers of the Sahiwal power plant, a 1,320-megawatt facility in central Pakistan, are so large they seem other-worldly. Yet it is not
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Doctors in India see patients for barely 2 minutes: Study
MUMBAI: The average time that India's neighbourhood doctors, called primary care consultants, spend with patients is a negligible two minutes. Neighbouring Bangladesh and Pakistan seem worse off, with
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Like Delhi, Lahore chokes on toxic air
Lahore - just over 400 kilometres from New Delhi - is choking under a toxic sky with high pollution levels. Much like in the Indian capital, effective on-the-ground measures remain a distant dream in Pakistan's
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Climate change has enormous implications in Himalayas: Senator
Aparna Pande, director of Hudson's India Initiative, said that weak states and contested sovereignties across the Himalayas have induced a number of regional actors to seek deeper physical and economic
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Estimates of the burden of Group B Streptococcal disease worldwide for pregnant women, stillbirths, and children
<p>The researchers aimed to provide the first comprehensive estimates of the burden of group B Streptococcus (GBS), including invasive disease in pregnant and postpartum women, fetal infection/stillbirth,
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The vulnerability of Pakistan’s water sector to the impacts of climate change: identification of gaps and recommendations for action
Concern has been growing in recent years regarding the potential impact of climate change on Pakistan’s already stressed water resources. Rising temperatures, increasing saltwater intrusion in coastal
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Levels & trends in child mortality
This report presents the UN-IGME's latest estimates, up to year end of 2015, of under-five, infant and neonatal mortality and assesses progress towards MDG 4 at the country, regional and global levels.