‘Remembering’ Sindh, Reconstructing Sindh: The Politics of Memory among Sindhi Hindus in India

Prevalence of HIV/AIDS among jail inmates in Sindh.

There is currently an ongoing epidemic of HIV/AIDS in Sindh Province. The Sindh Government has established a program for delivering HIV/AIDS prevention services to jail inmates. The objective of this study was to establish baseline HIV prevalence in Sindh jails. Anonymous unlinked volunteer testing was offered to 15000 jail inmates across nine jails in six cities of Sindh, of which 4987 (33%) a...

Surveillance of pneumococcal meningitis among children in Sindh, southern Pakistan.

BACKGROUND Information about the burden of invasive pneumococcal disease among children in Pakistan is limited. METHODS Surveillance of bacterial meningitis among children aged <5 years was set up at 18 hospitals in southern Pakistan that fulfilled the following criteria: (1) >30 pediatric admissions weekly, (2) skilled personnel to perform lumbar punctures, and (3) close proximity to an Aga ...

Litholapaxy at Hyderabad (Sindh)

Byssinosis in ginning factories of rural Sindh.

Frequency of byssinosis in 276 workers from 5 ginning factories of rural Sindh are described. Twenty-four (9%) had byssinosis, 178 were asymptomatic and the remaining 74 had other respiratory symptoms. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease was present both in symptomatic and asymptomatic workers and was equally distributed amongst smokers and non-smokers. A possible involvement of some factors ...

'Gastro' of Mirpur Khas (Sindh) is resolved.

BACKGROUND Diarrhoeal disease is a common cause of major public health concern in many parts of the world including Pakistan. METHODS Eighteen stool samples were received from Civil Hospital Mirpur Khas (Sindh). All the specimens were processed for culture and antimicrobial susceptibility according to Clinical Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) guidelines. RESULTS Eight out of eighteen (...