OBJECTIVE To estimate the prevalence of reproductive tract infections (RTIs) among the Female Sex Workers (FSWs), Male Sex Workers (MSWs), Injecting Drug Users (IDUs) and truck drivers. STUDY DESIGN Cross-sectional. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY Lahore and Karachi, from March to August, 2004. METHODOLOGY Four hundred FSWs, 400 MSWs, 200 eunuchs, 400 IDUs and 400 truck drivers were interview...

OBJECTIVES Government reports on violence in developing countries are almost universally based upon police data, which are typically incomplete and unreliable. Violence in Karachi was evaluated using ambulance service, not police, records. SETTING Karachi, Pakistan. METHODOLOGY The study was based on a case series of persons suffering from intentional injuries and transported by Edhi, the l...

BACKGROUND Typhoid fever is the persistent cause of morbidity worldwide. Salmonella enterica serovar's carriers among food handlers have the potential to disseminate this infection on large scale in the community. The purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence of typhoidal S. enterica serovars among food handlers of Karachi. METHODS This cross-sectional study was conducted in Karac...

BACKGROUND Considerable HIV transmission occurs among injection drug users (IDUs) in Pakistan and recently the HIV prevalence has been increasing among male (MSW), hijra (transgender; HSW) and female (FSW) sex workers. We describe past and estimate future patterns of HIV emergence among these populations in several cities in Pakistan. METHODS The density of these key populations per 1000 adul...

OBJECTIVE To study the prevalence and pattern of self-medication among adult males and females in Karachi, Pakistan. METHODS This cross-sectional community- based survey was carried out at five randomly selected towns of Karachi (Defence, Gulshan-e-Iqbal, North Nazimabad, Malir, Orangi town) over a period of 3 months (October, November & December 2012). A sample size of 500 adult cases (250 m...

The project of electronic corpora for Manding languages was launched in St. Petersburg in 2009. By now, it is carried out by an international team with an assistance by specialists in Manding languages from different countries. Tools have been developed taking into account the specifics of Manding languages (and adaptable to other languages). The Bamana Reference Corpus was put on line in 2012,...

Zahir ALI1, 2 Muhammad SHAKIR3 1 Pakistan Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (SUPARCO), Karachi, PAKISTAN 2 University of Twente, Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), Enschede, THE NETHERLANDS 3 National Centre for Remote Sensing and Geo-Informatics (NCRG), Institute of Space Technology, Karachi, PAKISTAN E-mail: [email protected], [email protected], mshakirgeo...

| Bovine tuberculosis (bTB) is a major infectious disease among cattle, other farm animals, and human population. It results from infection ofMycobacterium bovis.A cross-sectional study was conducted on 1000clinically suspected bovine animals (435 cows and 565 buffaloes) of smallholder dairy farms in five towns i.e., Bin Qasim, Gaddap, New Karachi, Korangi and Super highway of Karachi, Pakistan...

Analysis and Visualization of Dynamic Networks Name: Faraz Zaidi, Chris Muelder, Arnaud Sallaberry Affil./Addr. 1: College of Computing and Information Sciences, Karachi Institute of Economics and Technology (KIET), Karachi, Pakistan [email protected] Affil./Addr. 2: Computer Science department, University of California at Davis, Davis, California, U.S.A [email protected] Affil./Addr. 3...