The position of Pakistan is compared with respect to other members of the 3rd world according to social and economic indicators of development. A total of 97 countries (32 from Asia and Pacific, 41 from Africa, and 24 from Latin America) are included in the definition of the 3rd world countries. 2 separate procedures are used in the analysis. The first relates to a ranking of the countries o...

BACKGROUND Around 41% of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) cases in Nepal occur in seasonal migrant laborers. Dalit migrant laborers represent the largest proportion of reported HIV cases in the Far Western Region (Sudur Pashchimanchal, or Far West), Nepal. The study's objectives were to assess sexual behavior, condom use status and HIV risk perception among Dalit migrant laborers to India fro...

BACKGROUND Perinatal depression is highly prevalent in South Asia. Although effective and culturally feasible interventions exist, a key bottleneck for scaled-up delivery is lack of trained human resource. The aim of this study was to adapt an evidence-based intervention so that local women from the community (peers) could be trained to deliver it, and to test the adapted intervention for feasi...

This study empirically examines and compares the impact of foreign aid on growth in 6 South Asian countries: Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, using annual data over period 1980–2019. The empirical results for comparative analysis are based methods variance decomposition impulse response function. show that shock variation is about 1%–2% 5 countries 7.76% Nepal. means endog...

Rice, a prime crop in Nepal and other South Asian nations, plays crucial role ensuring food security socio-economic development. In Nepal’s agricultural sector, rice accounts for the largest share of Agricultural Gross Domestic Product (AGDP), comprising approximately 20%. However, absence appropriate policies poses significant challenge to sustainable production Nepal. This study aims assess v...

While comprehensive cancer registration data are available for some locations in India and Pakistan, the situation regarding other countries in South Asia is less clear. Only one publication with cancer incidence data is available in the literature for Nepal, for one hospital in the Western provinces. The present study was conducted to assess burden across a greater proportion of country with d...

Objectives: This study aimed to explore the prevalence and severity of COVID-19 disease in SAARC affiliated countries show comparison by analyzing patterns infections, recoveries, deaths among countries. Methods: The data related were collected from Worldometer which dataset consists daily confirmed, recovery, death cases. To compare these countries, we consider three parameters such as case fa...

This article attempts to highlight the prevalence of zinc deficiency and its health and economic consequences in South Asian developing countries and to shed light on possible approaches to combating zinc deficiency. A computer-based search was performed on PubMed, Google, and ScienceDirect.com to retrieve relevant scientific literature published between 2000 and 2012. The search yielded 194 ar...

South Asia has experienced regular outbreaks of H5N1 avian influenza virus since its first detection in India and Pakistan in February, 2006. Till 2009, the outbreaks in this region were due to clade 2.2 H5N1 virus. In 2010, Nepal reported the first outbreak of clade 2.3.2 virus in South Asia. In February 2011, two outbreaks of H5N1 virus were reported in the State of Tripura in India. The anti...

Recent trends in fertility and contraceptive prevalence indicate that the marital fertility transition in Pakistan, which has been anticipated for three decades, has begun in the 1990s. Before that decade, the total fertility rate had exceeded six births per woman for at least three decades, and fewer than 10 percent of married women practiced contraception. The most recent survey data, collect...