Stories from Dr Ali M Mir
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Premarital counselling — a human right
Premarital counselling can play an important role in improving our appalling maternal and child health indicators
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A hard place for newborns
Maternal and child health indicators are a good measure to gauge a country’s level of development
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Pink October
Pakistan reportedly has the highest incidence rate of breast cancer in Asia
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Maternal lives matter
Thousands of women and families in Pakistan are paying the high cost of inaction
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A new ray of hope on population planning?
This year the Government of Pakistan has issued a special commemorative postage stamp on population
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Learning from the past
When epidemics spread with no end in sight it generates either panic or pessimism, leading to resigned fatalism
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Social Justice and Covid-19
The pandemic provides us an opportunity to restructure our health system and introduce reforms to remove inequities
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Link between population size and Covid-19
What has worked elsewhere may not work in Pakistan
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Serendipitous outcomes of Covid-19
The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on our lives continues to unfold.
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Keeping mothers safe while battling Covid-19
As the health system gears up to battle the pandemic, it must ensure that maternal health outcomes do not deteriorate
