Philip Aubrey buys medicines for British government-funded hospitals across London, capital of the world's fifth-largest economy, but last year he struggled to secure supplies of a basic AIDS drug. He…
The revelation that the number of opium-addicted Afghan adults and children has reached new highs is a dramatic consequence of the war in that country. Over the last few years,…
Intimate partner violence is the most common kind of violence experienced by women worldwide, both in developing and in industrialized countries. According to a World Health Organization (WHO) report, 35…
Sexual and reproductive health rights climbed up the public health agenda after the groundbreaking International Conference on Population and Development in 1994 in Cairo. It was on that occasion that…
Growing up in Lahore I wondered about the gap in my history textbook between the end of Indus Valley civilisation circa 1500 BC and the invasion of Sindh by Mohammad…
In September every year, leaders of more than 190 nations, whether big or small, get a chance to make long speeches at the United Nations General Assembly, which are usually…
The PTI and PAT dharnas at Islamabad have now escalated into jalsas being held in different part of Punjab. They are all set to soon embed their footprints in Sindh…
To Ghana's legions of jobless young men, Eric Bimpong has a money-making proposition: sell your blood. Bimpong spends his days outside schools, bars and on the streets of poor neighbourhoods…
When President Barack Obama made his first extended trip to Africa last year as the world's most powerful leader, he tried to assuage a continent largely disappointed in its famous…
Today, on the International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, it would be worth our while to remember that the world as a whole is in the clutches of…
