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![]() Zafar MirzaDawn |
The epidemiology of NCDs in Pakistan is horrific.
We are the result of what we consume.
Heart disease, diabetes and fatty liver are reversible through lifestyle interventions.
Those who are to be regulated must not head the body which is going to regulate them.
It is a strategic opportunity for China and other BRICS countries to fill the financial gaps and shape the future of global health.
The up and down trajectory of polio cases in Pakistan reflects our ever-unstable politics.
A cocktail of measures — educational, managerial, regulatory — need to be taken and interventions need to be made simultaneously and sustainably.
Pakistan has started to systematically produce an annual national UHC monitoring report.
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