BACKGROUND Pakistan adopted the malaria control strategy with provincial commitment in 1998. Pakistan joined the Roll Back Malaria (RBM) initiative in 2001. This led to development of a 5 year roll back malaria strategy. The aim of the paper is to audit whether the malaria control programme in NWFP was able to implement strategies suggested by RBM initiative in the year 2002-2005, and its subse...

Spores density and mycorrhizal colonization were studied in twenty-five rhizosphere samples of some selected soils and plant roots from fertile and marginal soils of North West Frontier Province of Pakistan. All tested plants are considered to be mycorrhizal plants. Highest number of mycorrhizal spores was found in Potatoes, Barley, rice and chickpea (>4000 spores kgG soil) in fertile soils. Fi...

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AIM This community-based study was conducted to assess the progress of Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI) in North West Frontier Province (NWFP) of Pakistan. METHOD In this cross sectional survey, 120 randomly selected clusters in 03 districts of NWFP were included, 2673 children in the age group 12-35 months of 2583 randomly selected families were visited. RESULTS The results showed ...

This paper quantitatively investigates vulnerability to risk as a characteristic of dynamic poverty in low income countries. A household is defined as vulnerable to consumption risk if it has to drastically reduce its consumption level when hit by a negative income shock. To empirically operationalize the definition, descriptive analyses based on transition matrix are combined with regression m...

Geographical Situation of Pakistan The country consists of two wings-East Pakistan and West Pakistanseparated from each other by 1,500 miles of land. By far the greater part of the population (Table I) is concentrated in the relatively small area of East Pakistan in the delta formed by the Ganges and Brahmaputra rivers, which is the most densely populated part in the world and is conspicuous fo...

The FC/TC cooperative programme was designed to support the fight against tuberculosis (TB) in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), formerly North West Frontier Province (NWFP), and in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) in accordance with the DOTS strategy (directly observed treatment, short-course) recommended by the WHO. The elements of the Financial Cooperation (FC) included the procurement ...

To investigate the effects of illicit heroin abuse on the endocrine system a study was carried out in North West Frontier Province (NWFP) where heroin addiction is prevalent. Sixty-eight subjects were included in this study. Thirty-three were untreated heroin addicts visiting "drug abuse treatment centres" in Peshawar and 35 age matched normal males. Urine samples of all addicts showed the pres...