BACKGROUND The Afghan community is a priority population for many health and social services within the southeast region of Melbourne, which is home to the largest population of Afghanistan-born people within the state of Victoria. The majority of Afghan women arriving in Australia are of childbearing age, and evidence suggests that they are at increased risk of emotional challenges following b...

BACKGROUND This study concerns parasitological investigations estimating the prevalence of intestinal parasites in the Afghan community based on the example of patients, both children and adults, treated in the Ghazni Provincial Hospital, in the eastern part of the country. MATERIALS AND METHODS In total, 201 admitted patients with internal health problems were examined in the Afghan hospital...

OBJECTIVE To analyse the culture of a Kabul maternity hospital to understand the perspectives of healthcare providers on their roles, experiences, values and motivations and the impact of these determinants on the care of perinatal women and their babies. DESIGN Qualitative ethnographic study. SETTING A maternity hospital, Afghanistan. POPULATION Doctors, midwives and care assistants. M...

Introduction: Although education is among the major socioeconomic status (SES) resources that influence populations’ and individuals’ health, social marginalization may reduce the health gain that follows access to SES indicators such as education, a pattern called marginalization-related diminished return (MDR). The literature on MDRs, however, has been mainly derived from stu...

Street children are among vulnerable people in the world. They are one of the main groups in the society who affect the pattern of health. To determine the prevalence of hepatitis B, hepatitis C, human immunodeficiency viruses (HIV), and syphilis among street children residing in southern Tehran, Iran. In a cross-sectional study, we selected 102 children aged below 15 years from southern Tehran...

BACKGROUND The increasing prevalence of TB drug resistant strains in absence of recent transmission evidence, highlights the need for an improved control program, coupled with a need to improve detection rate and early diagnosis. IS6110-RFLP is a means of genotyping TB clinical samples. In this study IS6110- RFLP was used for specification and quick tracking of TB infection source, transmission...

The Upper Cretaceous (?Santonian) Aitym Formation in the central Kyzylkum Desert, Uzbekistan, produced remains of a cimolodontan multituberculate (Uzbekbaatar wardi), a spalacotheriid symmetrodont (cf. Shalbaatar sp.), a deltatheroidan (cf. Deltatherus sp.), possibly the asioryctithere aff. Daulestes sp., possibly two zalambdalestids (Kulbeckia sp. cf. K. kulbecke and aff. Kulbeckia sp.), two s...

Letter To The Editor This open access article is available in Human Biology: http://digitalcommons.wayne.edu/humbiol/vol83/iss6/10 Letter to the Editor Afghan Genetic Mysteries I am a cultural anthropologist, and I have focused a large part of my research on Afghanistan populations. To my surprise, and despite the international attention given to this country in the last three decades, I have n...