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Adeel Saeed

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

As glacial lakes burst their bounds in the Pakistani mountains, a first-of-its-kind report projects millions more people are at risk from diseases linked to climate change.

1 Apr 2025
6 min read
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Climate changeSpotlight on climate change
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..
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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
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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
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Health worker heroesPolio
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
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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
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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
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Climate changeMalaria
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
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Climate change
Cutaneous leishmaniasis is a parasitic disease transmitted by sandflies, causing painful lesions on the skin

Cutaneous leishmaniasis spikes in Pakistan as treatment stock-outs hit northwestern region

15 Feb 2024
6 min read
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