FATHER OF PAKISTAN QUAIDE AZAM MUHAMMAD ALI JINNAH AND FORMER FEDERALLY ADMINISTERED TRIBAL AREA OF PAKISTAN

Prospects of e-Health in federally administered tribal areas of Pakistan.

Higher education in Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan after 9/11: Problems and prospects

The troubled state of affairs in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) of Pakistan portends serious repercussions and grave consequences, destined to affect education particularly higher education in the entire tribal belt. Ironically, no extensive study has been conducted, to investigate those dimensions of FATA higher education which have been adversely affected in the aftermath of 9...

Life stress and depression in a tribal area of Pakistan.

BACKGROUND Depression is common in Pakistan but no research on this subject has been reported from the North West Frontier Province (NWFP), host to numerous Afghan refugees. AIMS To measure depressive symptoms and associated features in a population-based sample. METHOD A Pushto translation of the Self Reporting Questionnaire (SRQ) was administered to 471 adults living in a village in one o...

The Emergence and Maintenance of Vector-Borne Diseases in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, and the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan

Human populations throughout much of the world are experiencing unprecedented changes in their relationship to the environment and their interactions with the animals with which so many humans are intimately dependent upon. These changes result not only from human induced changes in the climate, but also from population demographic changes due to wars, social unrest, behavioral changes resultin...

Burn Wound Infections and Antibiotic Susceptibility Patterns at Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences, Islamabad, Pakistan

BACKGROND Burn wound infections carry considerable mortality and morbidity amongst burn injury victims who have been successfully rescued through the initial resuscitation. This study assessed the prevalent microrganisms causing burn wound infections among hospitalized patients their susceptibility pattern to commonly used antibiotics and the frequency of infections with respect to the duratio...