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1 Ethics Review Board, Médecins Sans Frontières, Geneva, Switzerland, 2 University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 3 Unit of Epidemiology and Disease Control, Department of Public Health, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium, 4 Bioethics and Health Law Programme at the Center for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA), Durban, KwaZu...

OBJECTIVES Traffic crashes are a leading cause of deaths and injuries in Pakistan. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that approximately 30,131 people die in road crashes annually on Pakistani roads (WHO 2013). The use of seat belts can be effective in reducing road crash fatalities in Pakistan but under existing seat belt laws, seat belt use is mandatory only for drivers and is limi...

BACKGROUND Prevalence of Congenital Heart Disease (CHD) is well established in most of the developed countries, where childbirth is obligatory in hospitals and allied facilities. In rural Pakistan the situation is reverse, where most of deliveries take place in homes by traditional birth attendants' therefore true prevalence of CHD in our population is unknown. In rural Pakistan almost 80% chil...

BACKGROUND Perforation peritonitis is the most common surgical emergency encountered by the surgeons all over the world as well in Pakistan. The spectrum of etiology of perforation peritonitis in tropical countries continues to differ from its western counter part. This study was conducted at Dow University of health sciences and Civil Hospital Karachi (DUHS & CHK) Pakistan, designed to highlig...

Pakistan still has a window of opportunity to act decisively to prevent the spread of HIV. Although the estimated HIV burden is still low— around 0.1 percent of the adult population—the country is facing a concentrated epidemic among injecting drug users (IDUs) with HIV prevalence above 5 percent among IDUs in three of the four provinces. Given linkages between IDUs and other high-risk populati...

M.Raffi1)†, F.Hussain, T.M.Bhatti, J.I.Akhter, A.Hameed and M.M.Hasan 1) Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences (PIEAS), Islamabad-45650, Pakistan 2) Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan 3) Central Analytical Facility Division, Pakistan Institute of Nuclear Scien...

1 Center for Advanced Mathematics and Physics, National University of Sciences and Technology, Islamabad 44000, Pakistan 2 Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, King Khalid University, Abha 9004, Saudi Arabia 3 Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, Al-Azhar University, Assiut 71511, Egypt 4 Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Faculty of Sciences Ben M’sik, Hassan I...

BACKGROUND For more accurate estimation of the global burden of pregnancy associated disease, clarity is needed on definition and assessment of non-severe maternal morbidity. Our study aimed to define maternal morbidity with clear criteria for identification at primary care level and estimate the distribution of and evaluate associations between physical (infective and non-infective) and psycho...

background and objective: laboratory errors are one of the major factors that affect the diagnosis, prognosis, treatment and monitoring in patients.the objective of study is to evaluate the frequency and type of errors in different phases of testing at the pathology department of the shalamar hospital, lahore and to evaluate the causes of errors. methods: this observational study was carried o...