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DC Islamabad kicks off anti-polio drive targeting 400,000 children


January 6, 2024

ISLAMABAD: Deputy Commissioner Islamabad Irfan Nawaz Memon has inaugurated an extensive anti-polio campaign aiming to vaccinate 400,000 children under the age of five years. Accompanied by a dedicated team, including Additional Deputy Commissioners, District Health Officer and Assistant Commissioners, the Deputy Commissioner personally administered polio drops, setting a determined tone for the initiative, ICT spokesman Dr Abdullah Tabasum told on …

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Spanish clergy sexually abused over 200,000 children, says report


October 28, 2023

MADRID: Over 200,000 minors are estimated to have been sexually abused in Spain by the Roman Catholic clergy since 1940, according to an independent commission report published on Friday. The report did not give specific figures but said a poll of over 8,000 people found that 0.6 per cent of Spain’s adult population of around 39 million people said they …

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110,000 children, adolescents died from AIDS-related causes in 2021: Unicef


November 29, 2022

ISLAMABAD: Around 110,000 children and adolescents died from AIDS-related causes during 2021, United Nations Children Fund’s (Unicef) global snapshot on children and HIV and AIDS said on Monday. Meanwhile, another 310,000 were newly infected, raising the total number of young people living with HIV to 2.7 million. Unicef has warned that ending AIDS among children and adolescents will continue to be a …

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