This study assessed the need and readiness of health care institutions in Kabul and Bamyan, Afghanistan for successful implementation of information and communication technology in health care (eHealth). A mixed methods design was adopted at 2 institutions in the Aga Khan Development Network in Afghanistan: the French Medical Institute for Children in Kabul and Bamyan Provincial Hospital, Bamya...

This article explains the history of relations between India- Afghanistan and prospects for any future engagement with Islamic Emirate Afghanistan, considering recent developments in Afghanistan. It investigates how two countries can find common grounds economic, political, social cooperation what role India could take helping stabilize ultimately region. The paper also elaborates on potential ...

we conducted this study to obtain a comprehensive picture of molecular epidemiology of hiv-1 in three neighboring countries, i.e. afghanistan, iran, and pakistan as a basis for discussing possible hypothesis regarding between-country virus transmission. our results showed that subtype composition differs between these countries with more variation in pakistan than iran and afghanistan. the crf3...

BACKGROUND The rates of psychiatric disorders might be very high in Afghanistan. The country has faced many years of war and violence and therefore this is hardly surprising. We are describing the results of a community survey conducted by clinicians in a small village of Eastern Afghanistan. This study was carried out to measure prevalence of psychiatric disorders among the people living in a ...

А new species and a new subspecies of Satyrium Scudder, 1876 (subfamily Theclinae, tribe Eumaeini) from the subgenera Superflua Strand, 1910 and Armenia Dubatolov & Korshunov, 1984 respectively are described from Bamyan Province, Central Afghanistan-S. (S.) skrylniki sp. n. and S. (A.) hyrcanica bamiana ssp. n. The new species of Superflua belongs to the Iranian complex of species. It inhabits ...

War on terrorism, as the motto which formed the cornerstone of global policies of former     neo-conservative administration of the United States, is increasingly becoming ineffective in Afghanistan with the dreaded consequence of spilling over into Pakistan. This inevitable consequence of War on    Terrorism in Afghanistan has brought the West face to face with the ‘nest of terrorism’ that CIA...

PURPOSE OF REVIEW This review focuses on development and maturation of the tactical evacuation and en route care capabilities of the military trauma system in Afghanistan and discusses hard-learned lessons that may have enduring relevance to civilian trauma systems. RECENT FINDINGS Implementation of an evidence-based, data-driven performance improvement programme in the tactical evacuation an...

In the fifth installment of SRAD Director’s Corner, “Afghanistan: The Logic Failing, Fast and Slow,” George Shatzer focuses on failure US-led war reconstruction campaign in Afghanistan. He reviews Forty-year War Afghanistan: A Chronicle Foretold by Tariq Ali Fifth Act: America’s End Afghanistan Elliot Ackerman. brings personal experience to bear his review, painting a picture why United States ...

President Barack Obama’s strategy in Afghanistan does not pass the tests for war that he offered in his Nobel Lecture. Afghanistan is being preyed upon by a limited insurgency that feeds on Afghanistan’s poverty and desperation. Most Afghans do not support the Taliban or Al-Qaeda, but are vulnerable to their pressures. Young unemployed men often join militant factions out of the need to earn a ...

following the september 11th events when the united states managed to forge an international coalition against terror within the framework of operation enduring freedom, attacking afghanistan, the general perception was that the united states would be able soon to destroy the taliban in afghanistan and remove the shades of war and insecurity from afghanistan. however what occurred was the colla...