BACKGROUND In Pakistan, patients with symptoms suggestive of tuberculosis (TB) seek care from a wide array of health care providers, many of whom do not notify cases to the National TB Programme (NTP). SETTING We evaluated an active case detection intervention in five randomly selected districts in urban slums of Sindh Province, Pakistan. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the increase in case notificat...

I grew up in Brooklyn during WWII and freely roamed the streets, spoke to a vast assortment of people, and slipped into the movies underage where they were playing concentration camps, the atom bomb and Superman. I alternately dreamed of becoming a classical dancer and a champion for the oppressed. The fabric of our abode was filled with diverse people, literature and architecture. The latter m...

The article addresses the role of performative practices in informal camps and shantytowns southern Italy, where many sub-Saharan migrants live. In these settlements, creation expressions take various forms: an organic unplanned one, which gives shape to multiple improvised languages; one supported, sustained, often directed managed by associations; finally, produced non-migrant artists who see...

During the Nazi period numerous doctors and nurses played a nefarious role. In Germany they were responsible for the sterilization and killing of disabled persons. Furthermore, the Nazi doctors used concentration camp inmates as guinea pigs in medical experiments for military or racial purposes. A study of the collaboration of doctors with National Socialism exemplifies behavior that must be av...

Caplan reports on a May 1989 conference, sponsored by the Center for Biomedical Ethics at the University of Minnesota, that examined the meaning of the Holocaust for contemporary bioethics. Five themes were discussed: the role that mainstream medicine and science played in the creation of the Nazi state; what German scientists and physicians thought and did in the name of eugenics and euthanas...

Literary accounts of traumatic events can be more informative and insightful than personal testimonials. In particular, reference to works of literature can give us a more vivid sense of what it is like to receive a devastating diagnosis. In turn this can lead us to question some common assumptions about the nature of autonomy, particularly for patients in these circumstances. The literature of...

evaluation of a malaria screening program was carried out in two screened afghan refugee camps in bardsir and rafsanjan and compared to non-screened afghan refugees within kerman, as well as refugees with malaria diagnosed by communicable disease control (cdc) laboratories in kennan and rafsanjan, by parasitological blood examinations. the study involved 456 residents of two refugee camps and r...

INTRODUCTION A long and protracted civil war compounded by the occurrence of nature-related disasters have forced thousands of Somalis to take refuge in camps for internally displaced persons (IDPs) to escape violence and seek shelter. Dwellers of these camps have limited accessibility to and affordability of the fractured healthcare facilities located in nearby towns. A free, outreach, mobile,...