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LAHORE: Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz Sharif has directed essential steps to be undertaken for digitisation of land records in the province.She issued these directives while presiding over a...

Land record digitsation: Punjab CM orders stakeholders to ensure close coordination

Explore key facts about the Plus Project, a Unitaid-funded initiative led by PSI to co-design, implement, and evaluate country-adapted models of Perennial Malaria Chemoprevention.

Perennial malaria chemoprevention (PMC) is newly formulated strategy endorsed in June 2022 by the World Health Organization and builds off the previously recommended but poorly implemented strategy of intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in infants – IPTi. IPTi – the provision of single dose Sulphadoxine Pyrimethamine (SP) delivered through the Expanded Program of Immunization (EPI) at times of childhood immunisation at approximately 3, 4 and 9 months of age was shown to provide infa...

A look back at what made 2020 one of the worst, and most inspiring, years in recent memory By : Jeremy Williams & Ryan Williams-Jent December 31, 2020 Share this story: We don’t know about you, but 2020 has left us exhausted. The year has been filled with immense loss, sadness and enough chaos to fill a decade’s worth of newspapers. The year was dominated by a global pandemic, which infected 77 million people and took the lives of more than 1.6 million worldwide; nationwide Black Lives Mat...

Most Remarkable 2020: Larry Biddle, Board Chair, The Plus Project By : Jennifer Yeagley, Vice Chair, The Plus Project December 17, 2020 Share this story: I met Larry in 2015, shortly after I moved to Tampa Bay from San Francisco. At the time, he was serving as a consultant for Family Resources’ LGBTQ Youth Homeless Project initiative, with a particular emphasis on establishing an emergency shelter system for transgender youth. I was running a social justice organization that worked directly...

Share this story: December has always been my favorite time of the year. Even with the end of the school year and my birthday both happening in June, this month was the one I looked forward to most when I was growing up and that love has only grown in me as I grew. As a big guy, my internal temperature runs fairly hot so a cooler month is always preferable to me rather than a sweltering summer month. I also love all things Christmas. I know it is sacrilegious as a gay man to say that I don’t ...

Share this story: Like most things in our new normal, the end of 2020 has been unique. While October, November and December have long been my favorite months of the year, this one in particular tried its best to change that. It was difficult not to let it at times, like during Halloween. The global pandemic rightfully kept responsible, in-person celebrations at bay this year – easily the best part, candy aside – and it stung a bit. I love a costume, but wearing one at home on a Zoom call di...