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Funding Cuts Threaten Progress Against HIV, Hepatitis and STIs – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1298 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1298 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans Blogs are published by Asrar Qureshi on its dedicated site https://pharmaveterans.com. Please email to pharmaveterans2017@gmail.com  for publishing your contributions here. Credit: Gustavo Fring Credit: Ivan S Preamble This blog post is based on recent report by the World Health Organization. Link at the end. Funding Cuts Threaten Decades of Progress Against HIV, Hepatitis, and Sexually Transmitted Infections For more than three decades, the global fight against HIV/AIDS, viral hepatitis, and sexually transmitted infections (STIs) has been one of public health's greatest success stories. Millions of lives have been saved through scientific innovation, international cooperation, expanded access to medicines, community-led programs, and sustained political commitment. Diseases that were once cons...

Malnutrition in Children Crisis – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1297 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1297 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans Blogs are published by Asrar Qureshi on its dedicated site https://pharmaveterans.com. Please email to pharmaveterans2017@gmail.com  for publishing your contributions here. Credit: halit kucukbakar Credit: Soumya Credit: VHL Preamble This blog post is based on recent report by the international group Action Against Hunger. Link at the end. A Silent Emergency: Why Child Malnutrition Demands Pakistan's Immediate Attention Every nation faces moments that test not only its resources but also its conscience. For Pakistan, one such moment is unfolding quietly in Quetta, where an alarming rise in child malnutrition has exposed a humanitarian crisis that deserves far greater public attention. Unlike earthquakes or floods, malnutrition rarely makes dramatic headlines. It develops gradually, often hidden behind closed doors, affecting...

AI and the Risk of Losing Human Skills – Suggestion to Tackle – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1296 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1296 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans Blogs are published by Asrar Qureshi on its dedicated site https://pharmaveterans.com. Please email to pharmaveterans2017@gmail.com  for publishing your contributions here. Credit: Tara Winstead Preamble This 2-part blogpost is based on a recent article by Boston Consulting Group. Link to the article at the end. AI Is a Tool, not a Substitute for Thinking: How Organizations Can Preserve Human Intelligence Part 2 of a Two-Part Series Drawing on Boston Consulting Group's research, we saw that AI's greatest danger is not job loss but the gradual erosion of human judgment, critical thinking, creativity, and problem-solving when employees increasingly allow AI to think on their behalf. BCG describes this as distributed de-skilling—a collective decline in organizational capability that occurs when...

AI and the Risk of Losing Human Skills – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1295 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1295 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans Blogs are published by Asrar Qureshi on its dedicated site https://pharmaveterans.com. Please email to pharmaveterans2017@gmail.com  for publishing your contributions here. Credit: Thirdman Preamble This 2-part blogpost is based on a recent article by Boston Consulting Group. Link to the article at the end. When AI Thinks for Us: The Hidden Risk of Losing Our Most Valuable Human Skills Part 1 of a Two-Part Series Artificial Intelligence has become one of the greatest productivity breakthroughs of our generation. From drafting reports and writing computer code to analyzing financial data, designing presentations, summarizing meetings, and answering customer enquiries, Generative AI is transforming how work gets done. Organizations around the world are embracing AI at unprecedented speed because the benefits are undenia...

7 Deadly Mistakes New Small Businesses Must Avoid – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1294 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1294 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans Blogs are published by Asrar Qureshi on its dedicated site https://pharmaveterans.com. Please email to pharmaveterans2017@gmail.com  for publishing your contributions here. Credit: Gustavo Fring Preamble This blogpost is based on an article by Daniel Lancaster, CFA. Link to the article at the end. Seven Mistakes That Sink Small Businesses and How Smart Entrepreneurs Avoid Them Starting a business is one of life's most exciting adventures. It is also one of the most demanding. Every successful company, whether it is Apple, Amazon, Toyota, or a neighborhood bakery, began as someone's dream. Behind every thriving enterprise is an entrepreneur who took a risk, believed in an idea, and decided to create something of value. Yet the statistics are sobering. A significant number of new businesses fail within th...

The Exit of Multinational Pharmaceutical Companies from Pakistan – Part 3 – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1293 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1293 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans Blogs are published by Asrar Qureshi on its dedicated site https://pharmaveterans.com. Please email to pharmaveterans2017@gmail.com  for publishing your contributions here. Credit: Christopher Moon Credit: Pavel Danilyuk Credit: Yuri Shkoda Preamble In the first two parts of this series, we explored the gradual withdrawal of several multinational pharmaceutical companies (MNCs) from Pakistan and examined its consequences for the healthcare ecosystem. Part 3 of a Three-Part Series The Great Exit: Can Pakistan Bring Global Pharmaceutical Companies Back? The departure of research-based multinational companies has raised an important question.  Can Pakistan once again become an attractive destination for global pharmaceutical investment? The answer is yes, but only if the country ad...