In an environment of increasing importance of South–South bilateral trade partnerships, we assess the potential for improving bilateral trade between India and five Central Asian countries in this paper, and construct a trade potential index. We find huge untapped potential for increasing trade, and that India and Central Asia would benefit from policies that encourage trade, including bilatera...

The National Population and Family Development Board, Malaysia, in association with Malaysian Paediatric Association and Commonwealth Association for Mental Handicap and Developmental Disabilities (CAMHADD) held a workshop in Kuala Lumpur in September 1986 on prevention, early detection, and intervention of childhood handicap. The main objective was to identify those problems for which practica...

OBJECTIVE The primary objective was to estimate the burden of invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) in children aged 1 month to 12 years in South Asian countries. METHODS We searched three electronic databases (PubMed, Embase and the Cochrane Library) using a comprehensive search strategy, we manually searched published databases (Index Medicus and Current Contents) and we also searched the bib...

Background: Anemia is a leading cause of maternal deaths and adverse pregnancy outcomes in developing countries. Objectives:We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis to estimate the pooled prevalence of anemia, the association between maternal anemia and pregnancy outcomes, and the populationattributable fraction (PAF) of these outcomes that are due to anemia in lowand middle-income co...

BACKGROUND Anemia is a leading cause of maternal deaths and adverse pregnancy outcomes in developing countries. OBJECTIVES We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis to estimate the pooled prevalence of anemia, the association between maternal anemia and pregnancy outcomes, and the population-attributable fraction (PAF) of these outcomes that are due to anemia in low- and middle-incom...

BACKGROUND The risk to develop gastric cancer in Thailand is relatively low among Asian countries. In addition, the age-standardized incidence rate (ASR) of gastric cancer in Thailand varies with geographical distribution; the ASR in the North region is 3.5 times higher than that in the South region. We hypothesized that the prevalence of H. pylori infection and diversity of CagA phenotype cont...

To investigate the presence and structure of AbaR-type genomic islands (GIs) in non-Acinetobacter baumannii isolates, a total of 155 non-baumannii Acinetobacter isolates from a South Korean hospital were analyzed. GIs were found in three Acinetobacter nosocomialis and two Acinetobacter seifertii isolates. Their structures were similar to those in A. baumannii isolates from Asian countries, incl...

In the decades before the 1997–1998 Asian financial crisis, South Korea and Thailand experienced sustained economic growth attributable to investment growth and productivity gains. The investment underlying this economic expansion was financed by relatively high levels of private savings as well as by foreign borrowing. During the crisis, international creditors lost confidence in these countri...

BACKGROUND Diphtheria (D), tetanus (T), pertussis (P), hepatitis B (HepB), invasive Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) disease, and measles cause substantial global morbidity and mortality. METHODS This unique review highlights geographic differences in disease burden across certain countries in the African, Americas, Mediterranean, South-East Asian, and Western Pacific World Health Organiza...