Adeel Saeed

Bringing nomadic communities into the immunisation fold in Pakistan

From camps to alpine pastures, Pakistan’s vaccinators follow migrant families to deliver life-saving vaccines.

7 Jul 2026

6 min read

Polio Zero-dose children

A health worker vaccinates children at a camp in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Under the Mobile and Migrant Population initiative health teams seek out such communities to catch up unimmunised children. Photo courtesy: Emergency Operation Centre KP.

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Leaning on crutches, Hassan Munir, a young actor portraying a polio victim in a theatre performance about the importance of childhood vaccination, pleads with Khan Lala, a staunch opponent of immunisation. Credit: Emergency Operation Centre

The show must go on: the street theatre troupe tackling vaccine hesitancy in rural Pakistan

31 Mar 2026

6 min read

Polio

A female health worker looks through a microscope connected to a computer screen, examining a sample during a community health session

How a peep through a microscope changed health-seeking behaviours in Pakistan

18 Feb 2026

7 min read

Innovation Routine immunisation

Two smiling girls stand holding their HPV vaccine certificates at a flood relief camp in Punjab district. Credit: Rural Education & Economic Development Society (REEDS)

Despite a wave of misinformation, Pakistan’s HPV introduction campaign covers ground

8 Oct 2025

6 min read

HPV Spotlight on HPV Vaccine information

A female health worker administering polio drops to a girl during a door to door immunisation campaign. Credit: Emergency Operation Centre Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

In colossal push, Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province pledges to vaccinate 90% of under-twos by 2027

18 Aug 2025

4 min read

Routine immunisation

Karachi: A caregiver from Baluchistan province sharing benefits of a novel initiative of engaging men to promote immunization and gender equality during a Lessons Learned session held in Karachi. Credit: Jhepiego Pakistan

Sit-down chats with dads are helping vaccinators in Pakistan reach more kids

19 Jun 2025

6 min read

Gender equality Routine immunisation

A nurse carefully adjusts an intravenous drip for a dengue patient at a hospital in Peshawar. Rising temperatures, erratic rainfall and prolonged monsoon seasons have created ideal breeding grounds for dengue-carrying mosquitoes..

New climate report in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa warns of grave health impacts by 2050

1 Apr 2025

6 min read

Climate change Spotlight on climate change

Team members in Jhpiego distributing WASH kits and awareness brochures among families displaced by flooding in 2022 in the remote and hard to reach coastal areas of Pakistan. Credit: Jhpiego.

How medical outreach visits to flood-affected parts of Pakistan protected thousands

10 Mar 2025

6 min read

Routine immunisation

District khateeb for Peshawar, Maulana Tayyab Qureshi administering polio drops to children. Religious scholars in Pakistan are extending support to immunisation campaigns with the objective of promoting vaccine acceptance. (Photo by Adeel Saeed).

In northwestern Pakistan, religious leaders convert the vaccine-hesitant

25 Sep 2024

6 min read

Health worker heroes Polio

A vaccinator resting in the shade after a vaccination session in the Chamar Khan area near the Afghanistan border. The area has frequent, severe and prolonged electricity outages, but the strong cold chain of the Expanded Programme for Immunization (EPI) keeps vaccines protected from the heatwave. Credit: Adeel Saeed

Amid dangerously hot weather, Pakistan’s vaccine cold chain stays strong

8 Aug 2024

7 min read

Vaccine safety

Peshawar's transgender community holding a candlelight vigil after a community member was attacked in 2016. Credit: Adeel Saeed

Hospitals in this Pakistan province are designating a special room for trans patients

5 Jul 2024

6 min read

Gender equality

A boy being treated at an isolation ward in Peshawar reserved by patients of dengue and malaria. Credit: Adeel Saeed

Climate change causes malaria cases to triple in northwest Pakistan

30 May 2024

5 min read

Climate change Malaria

Dead body of a snake, killed by locals, is lying on road in Hatheji village of Southern Punjab where more than one dozen casualties due to snake bite were reported in August 2023 after flooding during monsoon season. Credit: Adeel Saeed

In Pakistan, risk of snakebites mounts amid floods

9 Apr 2024

6 min read

Climate change

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