Aga Khan University: Child Protection – Understanding to Practice

ECD: Child Protection – Understanding to Practice
Aga Khan University Human Development Programme is organising a workshop on Child Protection: Understanding to Practice on November 24-26, 2009.
Objectives

To explore the understanding of child abuse from  various perspectives
To discuss the epidemiology of child abuse at national and international level
To enlist the causes of child abuse in home, [...]

Breast cancer screening projection surpassed

THE National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF) and the Aga Khan Hospital have surpassed their free breast cancer and awareness campaign to women projection in Dar es Salaam City by 100 per cent.
Chief of Information and Communication of NHIF Rehani Athumani and the hospital’s Medical Treatment Director, Dr Jaffer Dharsee, said that they have already screened [...]

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A grand award ceremony recognising the research-based contributions of young pathologists marked the conclusion of the 33rd Annual National Conference of the Pakistan Association of Pathologists here at Pir Sohawa. The Hematology Ibn-e-Nafees gold medal was awarded to Dr. Ayesha Nayyar of AFIP, while silver medals in the same category went to Dr. Shawana Kamran [...]

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