Hydro-Technologies of Mehrgarh, Baluchistan and Indus Valley Civilizations, Punjab, Pakistan (ca. 7000–1500 BC) by Saifullah Khan, Nese Yilmaz, Mohammad Valipour, Andreas N. Angelakis

“…The Neolithic Mehrgarh (ca. 7000–2500 BC) and Balochistan and Indus Valley civilizations (ca. 2500–1500 BC), in Sindh Province in Pakistan, have been the spotlight of explorations to historians, anthropologists, and archeologists in terms of their origin, development, and collapse. …”
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SCOPE AND ECONOMICS OF INLAND FISH FARMING IN NASIRABAD AND JAFFARABAD DISTRICTS OF BALOCHISTAN by J. K. Bajkani, A. Hussain, A. H. Memon, M. A. Gadahi, S. Pasand

“… Fish farming has a substantial potential to improve the livelihood of people in the Nasirabad division, Balochistan, this division has the only canal irrigated areas that connects with Sindh province. This study is based on cross sectional data collected in the year 2020 for the calendar year 2019 from 67 fish farmers of the Nasirabad and Jaffarabad districts. …”
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Seeking Relief in the City: An Examination of Planning in Karachi to Support Internally Displaced People after the 2022 Floods in Pakistan by Shad, Daud

“…Karachi, the country’s largest city and capital of Sindh province, was the destination for tens of thousands of evacuees. …”
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The level of participation among small farmers of Sindh, Pakistan by Khushk, Ghulam Mujtaba, Abu Samah, Asnarulkhadi, Hamsan, Hanina, Ahmad, Nobaya

“…Therefore, it is concluded that the level of participation in such project has an impact on the small farmers’ communities in three districts of Sindh province, Pakistan.…”
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Malaria and Dengue: Assessment of Knowledge among Households in Rural Sindh, Pakistan. by Muzammil Pervaiz Khan, Farhan Ahmad, Ahsan Ashfaq, Syed Hasan Danish, Syed Mohammed Ali Warsi, Aneeta Iqbal Khan

“… Objectives: To assess knowledge and attitude about malaria and dengue, its spread, symptoms and prevention among the population of Dadu and Badin district of Sindh province. Study Design and Methods: A cross sectional baseline survey was conducted in rural areas of Dadu and Badin districts of Sindh in 2014. …”
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Malaria and Dengue: Assessment of Knowledge among Households in Rural Sindh, Pakistan. by Muzammil Pervaiz Khan, Farhan Ahmad, Ahsan Ashfaq, Syed Hasan Danish, Syed Mohammed Ali Warsi, Aneeta Iqbal Khan

“… Objectives: To assess knowledge and attitude about malaria and dengue, its spread, symptoms and prevention among the population of Dadu and Badin district of Sindh province. Study Design and Methods: A cross sectional baseline survey was conducted in rural areas of Dadu and Badin districts of Sindh in 2014. …”
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Child marriages by Nazli Hossain

“…In Pakistan, except for the Sindh province where legal age of marriage is 18 years, the rest of the provinces have legal age of 16 years for contracting marriage. …”
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Epidemiology and complications of snakebite in rural area of Badin and Thar Sind, Pakistan by Asifa Jamali, Muhammad Yousif, Shahnawaz Kareem, Salam Ali, Beena Salman, Salman Imtiaz

“…Method: The retrospective study was conducted at the Indus Hospital, Badin, Pakistan, and comprised data of patients bitten by snake between January 2017 and December 2020 in the rural area of the Sindh province who presented to the emergency room and were treated according to the institutional protocol. …”
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Results of community-based TB and HIV screening among transgender women and male sex workers in Pakistan by Sharaf Ali Shah, Shahina Qayyum, Saifullah Baig, Nikhat Iftikhar, Rubab Lubna Bukhari, Wajid Ali, Marina Smelyanskaya, Jacob Creswell

“…We engaged local organizations working with transgender women and MSW communities in Karachi and five urban cities in Sindh Province. People from the communities served as screening facilitators and treatment supporters. …”
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Challenges Faced by Nursing Faculty in Curriculum Implementation in Nursing Schools of Sindh: Nurses Faculty Perspectives by Mahaveer Singh Sodho, Musarat Fatima, Zeeshan Abbas

“…OBJECTIVE: To identify the challenges faced by the nursing faculty in the implementation of the curriculum in nursing schools in the public sector in Sindh province. METHODOLOGY: This analytic cross-sectional study from October – December 2019 was carried out at Public sector nursing schools including Schools of Nursing at Karachi, Hyderabad, Thatta, Badin, Mirpurkhas, Sanghar, Shaheed Benazir Abad, Khairpur, Sukkur, Shikarpur, Larkana, and Jacobabad which are offering diploma program in the interior southern region of Sindh were chosen. …”
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Disaster displacement and zoonotic disease dynamics: The impact of structural and chronic drivers in Sindh, Pakistan by Dorien H. Braam, Rafiq Chandio, Freya L. Jephcott, Alex Tasker, James L. N. Wood

“…This paper presents the findings of a case study investigating how disaster displacement affected zoonotic disease transmission risk following the 2010 ‘superfloods’ in Sindh province, Pakistan. We interviewed 30 key informants and 17 household members across 6 rural communities between March and November 2019, supported by observational studies and a review of secondary data. …”
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Analysis of Jamrao canal for potential of hybrid photovoltaic/hydrokinetic turbine system by Imran Khan, Lyu Guanghua, Anwar Ali Sahito, Ali Asghar Memon, Chen Hao, Abdul Hameed Soomro, Syed Hadi Hussain Shah

“…The Hybrid Optimization of Multiple Energy Resources (HOMER) software is used in this study to stimulate and acquire the best results and configuration for a hybrid PV/hydrokinetic system in district Sanghar of Sindh province in Pakistan. Model is designed by covering the 1 km canal surface with PV and the hydrokinetic turbines along with it. …”
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EMPOWERMENT LEVEL AMONG RURAL WOMEN OF SINDH- A SOCIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS by M. Bukhari, G. M. Khushk, K. Khoso, S. Shah

“…This research work studied the complex nature of socio-economic factors and cultural norms that affect the empowerment level of rural women in Sindh, Pakistan, and what interventions can be implemented to improve their social, economic, psychological conditions, and political participation as well as decision-making power with an aim to achieve the following objectives: i) to study the socio-economic background of rural women; ii) to determine the social empowerment levels of rural women; iii) to determine the psychological empowerment; iv) to determine the economic empowerment levels; and v) to determine the political empowerment levels among the rural women of Sindh, province of Pakistan. The present study was conducted using a quantitative survey methodology with a close ended five-point Likert scale questionnaire focusing rural women of Sindh. …”
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Results of community-based TB and HIV screening among transgender women and male sex workers in Pakistan. by Sharaf Ali Shah, Shahina Qayyum, Saifullah Baig, Nikhat Iftikhar, Rubab Lubna Bukhari, Wajid Ali, Marina Smelyanskaya, Jacob Creswell

“…We engaged local organizations working with transgender women and MSW communities in Karachi and five urban cities in Sindh Province. People from the communities served as screening facilitators and treatment supporters. …”
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Prevalence and risk factors for hepatitis C virus infection in an informal settlement in Karachi, Pakistan. by Munazza Mansoor, William A de Glanville, Ridwa Alam, Khawar Aslam, Mubashir Ahmed, Petros Isaakidis, Aneeta Pasha

“…The seroprevalence was more than double the previously reported seroprevalence in Sindh Province. The overall proportion of seropositive people that were viraemic was lower than expected. …”
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Exploring stakeholders’ experiences and perceptions regarding barriers to effective surveillance of communicable diseases in a rural district of Pakistan: a qualitative study by Sameen Siddiqi, Amna Rehana Siddiqui, Rumina Hasan, Imran Naeem

“…Both inductive and deductive thematic analysis was applied to identify key themes from the data.Settings The study was conducted in public sector healthcare facilities and the district health office of the rural district of Thatta, in Sindh province, Pakistan.Participants Fifteen healthcare managers and healthcare providers working in the eight public sector primary and secondary healthcare facilities were interviewed using an open-ended in-depth interview guide.Results Key themes that emerged from the data were: poor governance and absence of surveillance policy framework; fragmentation in the health system leading to lack of uniform reporting; inadequate (human) resources that weakened the infrastructure for disease surveillance; hospital-based reporting of cases that led to a predominantly passive surveillance system; paper-based surveillance system as the key determinant of delayed reporting; non-utilisation of surveillance data for decision making; absence of local laboratory capacity to complement the detection of disease outbreaks and lack of private sector integration in disease surveillance.Conclusions Poor governance and lack of policy framework were perceived to be responsible for weak surveillance infrastructure. …”
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Does contracting out lead to improvement in service volumes at primary and secondary health services? Evidence from rural districts of Sindh, Pakistan by Imran Naeem Abbasi, Zafar Fatmi, Sameen Siddiqi

“…Methods: The mixed-method study was conducted at Aga Khan University, Karachi, from November 2019 to April 2020, and comprised secondary data extracted from the district health information system related to Thatta and Sujawal districts of the Sindh province of Pakistan from July 2016 to June 2019. …”
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Disaster displacement and zoonotic disease dynamics: The impact of structural and chronic drivers in Sindh, Pakistan. by Dorien H Braam, Rafiq Chandio, Freya L Jephcott, Alex Tasker, James L N Wood

“…This paper presents the findings of a case study investigating how disaster displacement affected zoonotic disease transmission risk following the 2010 'superfloods' in Sindh province, Pakistan. We interviewed 30 key informants and 17 household members across 6 rural communities between March and November 2019, supported by observational studies and a review of secondary data. …”
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Prevalence of diabetic retinopathy in rural Pakistan: A population based cross-sectional study by Abdul Hakeem Jokhio, Khalid Iqbal Talpur, Shehnilla Shujaat, Bibi Rafeen Talpur, Shahzad Memon

“…We selected a rural district of Matiari Sindh Province in Pakistan, where we selected all the health facilities and their attached Lady Health Workers (LHWs)/Lady Health Supervisors (LHSs). …”
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Assessment of Hydrobiological and Soil Characteristics of Non-Fertilized, Earthen Fish Ponds in Sindh (Pakistan), Supplied with Seawater from Tidal Creeks by Asma Fatima, Ghulam Abbas, Robert Kasprzak

“…In this study, the suitability of four earthen, seawater ponds located in the Thatta district of Sindh province (Pakistan) was evaluated for the purpose of semi-intensive mariculture, which remains to be a severely underdeveloped branch of the agricultural industry of this populous Asian country. …”
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