Is anything worse than usual in North Waziristan right now?

Yes. Malaria is above usual: 1.5× its usual for these weeks. One more is above usual: non-cholera diarrhoea.

Above usual · 1.5×

117 malaria cases a week, against a usual 79.

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Read from these four weekly reports by Field Epidemiology and Disease Surveillance Division, National Institutes of Health, Islamabad:

  • Week 36, 2026
  • Week 37, 2026
  • Week 38, 2026
  • Week 39, 2026
The 5 reports behind "usual"
  • Week 39, 2024
  • Week 36, 2025
  • Week 37, 2025
  • Week 38, 2025
  • Week 39, 2025

The publisher's own list of its weekly reports

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Too few clinics reported to compare: skin leishmaniasis.

How this is worked out. The last four weeks against the same four weeks of the two years before, for this district alone. Illnesses with fewer than 5 cases a week here are left out: too few to compare.

What makes the most people ill here?

Malaria and non-cholera diarrhoea: 69 of every 100 reports here this year.

  • Malaria40 in 100
  • Non-cholera diarrhoea29 in 100
  • Severe chest infection7 in 100
  • Typhoid7 in 100
  • Pneumonia in under-fives6 in 100
  • 8 others11 in 100

5,916 reports from North Waziristan so far in 2026.

Which illnesses are coming into season here?

Too few weeks of reports, or too few cases, to show a season in North Waziristan yet.

How does North Waziristan compare with the rest of Pakistan?

North Waziristan is 9th of the 80 districts with enough malaria to compare, each against its own usual.

usual⅛×8×32×country 0.7×Abbottabad: 0.8×Badin: 0.8×Bajaur: 0.8×Bannu: 0.6×Barkhan: 1.5×Batagram: 0.3×Buner: 1.1×Chagai: 0.6×Charsadda: 0.9×Chitral Lower: 0.7×Chitral Upper: 0.6×D. I. Khan: 0.9×Dadu: 0.7×Lower Dir: 0.5×Upper Dir: 1.5×Ghotki: 1.1×Hangu: 0.8×Haripur: 0.2×Harnai: 0.7×Hyderabad: 1.3×Jacobabad: 1.2×Jaffarabad: 0.1×Jamshoro: 0.8×Jhal Magsi: 0.2×Kalat: 0.0×Kambar Shahdad Kot: 0.6×Central Karachi: 2.1×East Karachi: 1.3×Karachi Keamari: 1.4×Korangi Karachi: 1.0×Malir Karachi: 0.5×South Karachi: 0.8×West Karachi: 1.1×Karak: 1.6×Kashmore: 0.8×Kech: 0.6×Khairpur: 0.5×Kharan: 0.2×Khyber: 1.0×Killa Abdullah: 0.3×Kohat: 1.1×Kohistan Lower: 0.4×Kohistan Upper: 0.5×Kolai Palas Kohistan: 0.3×Lakki Marwat: 0.6×Larkana: 0.5×Lasbela: 0.4×Loralai: 0.9×Malakand: 1.0×Mansehra: 18×Mardan: 4.2×Mastung: 1.1×Matiari: 1.0×Mirpur Khas: 0.6×Nasirabad: 0.8×Naushahro Feroze: 0.6×North Waziristan: 1.5×Nowshera: 2.3×Nushki: 0.0×Peshawar: 0.9×Sanghar: 1.0×Shaheed Benazir Abad: 0.8×Shangla: 0.3×Shikarpur: 0.8×Sohbatpur: 0.1×South Waziristan (Lower): 1.8×South Waziristan (Upper): 0.0×Sujawal: 0.6×Sukkur: 0.7×Swabi: 1.4×Swat: 0.4×Tando Allahyar: 0.7×Tando Muhammad Khan: 0.6×Tank: 0.6×Tharparkar: 0.5×Thatta: 0.7×Tor Ghar: 0.9×Umer Kot: 1.4×Upper Kurram: 0.5×Usta Muhammad: 0.2×North Waziristan

Across Pakistan as a whole, malaria is at 0.7× its usual; here it is 1.5×.

Why each district against itself. A large district always has more cases than a small one. Each dot is a district against its own usual, so size drops out.

How far is care from here?

Dooram does not show walking times for North Waziristan.

The travel-time map these figures come from is missing clinics in North Waziristan: it would put 100% of people more than two hours from care. A figure that cannot be right is left out rather than shown.

How well are children and mothers looked after in North Waziristan?

Better than Pakistan as a whole on 1 of 5, worse on 4.

From the government's household survey of 2019-20, the newest that goes down to each district. It is not this week's news: it shows the care people in North Waziristan could reach.

  • Are children fully vaccinated?

    12% of children aged 1 to 2, by their vaccination card. Worse than Pakistan as a whole.

  • Is a doctor, nurse or midwife at the birth?

    51% of recent births. Worse than Pakistan as a whole.

  • Do mothers get a check-up after birth?

    33% of mothers. Worse than Pakistan as a whole.

  • Do children with diarrhoea get ORS?

    100% of children under 5 who had diarrhoea. Better than Pakistan as a whole.

  • Do homes have a toilet?

    43% of homes have none. Worse than Pakistan as a whole.

Source: Pakistan Bureau of Statistics, Pakistan Social and Living Standards Measurement Survey, District Level, 2019-20, tables 4.3 B, 4.7 B, 4.11, 4.12, 7.2. The birth figure adds together doctors, nurses, midwives and lady health visitors, the report's own definition of skilled help at a birth (page 197 of the PDF).

Can we trust this week's numbers for North Waziristan?

Partly: too few of its clinics reported to compare some illnesses. North Waziristan sent figures in 40 of the last 52 weekly reports.

Weekly reports with figures from North Waziristan, most recent last

A reported case means someone reached a clinic and a form was filed, so these count reports, not everyone who was ill.

Sources. Field Epidemiology and Disease Surveillance Division, National Institutes of Health, Islamabad, weekly report. District maps: World Food Programme Spatial Data Infrastructure, published as a Common Operational Dataset by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.