WE ARE WITH MILLIONS OF PEOPLE ACROSS 5 CONTINENTS WHO WILL JOIN HANDS TO ENCOURAGE HANDWASHING WITH SOAP

Pakistan is commemorating Global Handwashing Day (15 October 2008) with global community. It is a high profile awareness-raising and educational activity to promote handwashing behavior in all communities. The UN General Assembly has designated 2008 the International Year of Sanitation, and Global handwashing Day will echo and reinforce its call for improved hygiene practices. The guiding vision of Global Handwashing Day is a local and global culture of handwashing with soap. Read the rest of this entry »

The technique of handwashing with soap and water. Click on the images to enlarge them.

Asia has been at the epicentre of emerging viral diseases during the last decade, with enterovirus 71, Nipah, SARS, avian flu and chikungunya being some recent examples. While considerable advances have been made in the control of some diseases e.g. polio, other endemic diseases such as viral hepatitis, dengue, Japanese encephalitis and HIV continue to take a formidable toll. The 8th Asia Pacific Congress of Medical Virology is going to be held in Hong Kong from Feb. 25-29, 2009, to discuss some of these challenges. We encourage you to visit their website http://www.mvdmc.com/apcmv/ on a regular basis for information updates.

Infection Control Society Pakistan has started a project to empower Persons Living With HIV/AIDS (PLWHA). This is known as “Tameer O-Tarqqi” through this project we want to achieve following goals:

• Primary Health Care facilities will be provided to PLWHA and their families.
• Skills building trainings in trades and small businesses will be provided to PLWHA and their family members.
• Assistance will be provided to trained PLWHA and family members to make them economically self sufficient. They will be assisted in getting Soft loans and donations to set up small businesses.

The project is partially supported by a grant from Pakistan National AIDS Consortium (PNAC)- which is assisted by Interact Worldwide.