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Fahima is a 22-year-old postgraduate zoology student from in Pakistan’s Chitral district near the Afghanistan border. For the past three years, Fahima has been suffering from the agony of trichiasis, a painful condition caused by trachoma which is the world’s leading cause of infectious blindness. For sufferers,...
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The Fred Hollows Foundation has welcomed the World Health Organization’s (WHO) validation that Pakistan has eliminated the eye disease trachoma as a public health problem. The Foundation, with the support of the Foreign Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO), Commonwealth Heads of Government and the Australian NGO Cooperation Program (ANCP),...
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(Rome, Italy): More than one in four households in Gaza currently face extreme hunger, and there is a risk of famine unless access to adequate food, clean water, health and sanitation services is restored, according to a new Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) report released today. The IPC...
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As I was exploring DCF’s work, I lost thought for a few minutes when I read these lines on its Homepage, “In Nepal, cancer is still considered a communicable disease and cancer patients are ignored in the society.” I could not help thinking how heartbreaking it must be for...
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The article is part of Ananke's special spotlight edition celebrating The Fred Hollows Foundation's 30 years of change making in the fields of development and eye health. You can check out the special edition here. In Australia, 35 percent of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander adults have never...
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Suicide remains one of the leading causes of death worldwide, according to WHO’s latest estimates, published today in “Suicide worldwide in 2019”. Every year, more people die as a result of suicide than HIV, malaria or breast cancer – or war and homicide. In 2019, more than 700 000...
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February 11th, 2020, Portland, Ore. (USA): Working women caring for children experience loneliness, isolation and stress at far greater rates than others and are looking to their employers to help them better manage these issues, according to the results of a new survey from WebMD Health Services. The well-being division of WebMD, WebMD...
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The Lancet Series on Gender Equality, Norms, and Health finds better global healthcare outcomes and reducing gender inequality are dependent on changing gender norms June 3rd, 2019, London (England):The Lancet, a weekly peer-reviewed and one of the world’s oldest, most prestigious, and best known general medical journals,published a...
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Some of the most serious issues related to women in Pakistan are their well-being and reproductive health. The World Bank has ranked Pakistani women’s general welfare and health among the lowest in the world. The situation, however, is not all that bleak. With the right efforts – implementable, advocated...
Fahima is a 22-year-old postgraduate zoology student from in Pakistan’s Chitral district near the Afghanistan border. For the past three years, Fahima has been suffering from the agony of trichiasis, a painful condition caused by trachoma which is the world’s leading cause of infectious blindness. For sufferers,...
The Fred Hollows Foundation has welcomed the World Health Organization’s (WHO) validation that Pakistan has eliminated the eye disease trachoma as a public health problem. The Foundation, with the support of the Foreign Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO), Commonwealth Heads of Government and the Australian NGO Cooperation Program (ANCP),...
(Rome, Italy): More than one in four households in Gaza currently face extreme hunger, and there is a risk of famine unless access to adequate food, clean water, health and sanitation services is restored, according to a new Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) report released today. The IPC...
As I was exploring DCF’s work, I lost thought for a few minutes when I read these lines on its Homepage, “In Nepal, cancer is still considered a communicable disease and cancer patients are ignored in the society.” I could not help thinking how heartbreaking it must be for...
The article is part of Ananke's special spotlight edition celebrating The Fred Hollows Foundation's 30 years of change making in the fields of development and eye health. You can check out the special edition here. In Australia, 35 percent of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander adults have never...
Suicide remains one of the leading causes of death worldwide, according to WHO’s latest estimates, published today in “Suicide worldwide in 2019”. Every year, more people die as a result of suicide than HIV, malaria or breast cancer – or war and homicide. In 2019, more than 700 000...
February 11th, 2020, Portland, Ore. (USA): Working women caring for children experience loneliness, isolation and stress at far greater rates than others and are looking to their employers to help them better manage these issues, according to the results of a new survey from WebMD Health Services. The well-being division of WebMD, WebMD...
The Lancet Series on Gender Equality, Norms, and Health finds better global healthcare outcomes and reducing gender inequality are dependent on changing gender norms June 3rd, 2019, London (England):The Lancet, a weekly peer-reviewed and one of the world’s oldest, most prestigious, and best known general medical journals,published a...
Some of the most serious issues related to women in Pakistan are their well-being and reproductive health. The World Bank has ranked Pakistani women’s general welfare and health among the lowest in the world. The situation, however, is not all that bleak. With the right efforts – implementable, advocated...
