Aga Khan University: World Childrens Day 2009

Aga Khan University-PDCN: Through support of mothers

School improvement initiatives taken from the outside do not have an effective impact on change processes without the involvement of communities and parents in the school teaching and learning process.
In order to increase maximum capacity building of the communities and their participation in the school improvement activities, the Aga Khan University-Professional Development Centre’s (AKU-PDCN) Whole [...]

Aga Khan University: World COPD Day – Breathless Not Helpless

Event:             World COPD Day
Date:               November 17, 2009  
Time:              2:00 – 4:30 pm
Venue:            Aga Khan University (AKU) Auditorium
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) refers to chronic bronchitis and emphysema, a pair of two commonly co-existing diseases of the lungs in which the airways become narrowed, leading to limited flow of air to and from the lungs and causing [...]

PAK VARSITY HELPS IMPLEMENT E-HEALTH SCHEMES IN INDIA

Even as India-Pakistan political relations remain chilly, a silent health initiative is on between both countries with leading Pakistani varsity Aga Khan University in Karachi working with its Indian partners to develop models for e-health in primary health care sector in southern and western India. “Being borderless is the charm of e-health or telemedicine. This [...]

Aga Khan University: Reaffirming the commitment to quality patient care

Aga Khan University Hospital (AKUH), Karachi’s commitment to deliver safe, high quality patient care has been reaffirmed by the Joint Commission International’s grant of accreditation for the second time – in 2006, the University Hospital became the first health care institution in Pakistan to be accredited by the Joint Commission International (JCI).
JCI standards represent a [...]

Fellowship in critical care medicine soon

The College of Physicians and Surgeons Pakistan (CPSP) will launch a new specialty of Critical Care Medicine (CCM) for training of junior doctors in the country according to international standards.
In the new fellowship, training would likely be started from January next year at selective resource/training centres in Karachi, Lahore and twin cities of Rawalpindi and [...]

Aga Khan University: World Diabetes Day – Prevention of diabetes and its complications

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Aga Khan University: Child Protection – Understanding to Practice

ECD: Child Protection – Understanding to Practice
Aga Khan University Human Development Programme is organising a workshop on Child Protection: Understanding to Practice on November 24-26, 2009.
Objectives

To explore the understanding of child abuse from  various perspectives
To discuss the epidemiology of child abuse at national and international level
To enlist the causes of child abuse in home, [...]

Speech by Mr Firoz Rasul, President Aga Khan University at PGME Graduation Ceremony

Bismillah-ir-rahman-ir-rahim
Chief Guest, Professor Bo Lindblad of the Karolinska Institute, Sweden and Professor Emeritus at AKU
Chairman of AKU’s Board of Trustees – Ambassador Saidullah Khan Dehlavi and Mrs. Dehlavi
Trustees
Provost – Dr. William Doe
Dean of the Medical College – Dr. Farhat Abbas
Associate Dean, Postgraduate Medical Education – Dr. Mumtaz Khan
Graduates, Proud Parents, and Distinguished Guests
Faculty and Staff [...]

Aga Khan University held its 15 th Postgraduate Medical Education (PGME) Graduation Ceremony

Aga Khan University (AKU) held its 15 th Postgraduate Medical Education (PGME) graduation ceremony on November 7, 2009 at the Stadium Road campus, Karachi, Pakistan. The 146 graduates – 65 interns, 68 residents and 13 fellows – were from as diverse fields of specialisation as cardiothoracic surgery, emergency medicine, neonatal paediatrics, neurosurgery and psychiatry among [...]

One in three suffer from high blood pressure in Pakistan

Community interventions can reduce blood pressure epidemic
Karachi, Pakistan
Training physicians and providing health care education to people in their homes through community health workers are strategies that can help in the management of the high blood pressure epidemic in the country suggests research by doctors at Aga Khan University (AKU). The AKU study – the first [...]

Aga Khan University: World COPD Day 2009

Aga Khan University Department of Continuing Professional Education in collaboration with Section of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine; National Alliance for Tobacco Control, World Health Organization (Pak) and Pakistan Chest Society invites you to commemorate World COPD Day 2009: Breathless not Helpless.
Time, Date and Venue
2:00 – 4:30 pm
November 17, 2009
AKU Auditorium, Karachi, [...]

‘Pneumonia kills more children than measles, malaria, AIDS combined’

Pneumonia kills more children who are less than five years of age than measles, malaria and AIDS combined, said Dr Ghaffar Billo, professor in the department of paediatrics and child health at Aga Khan University (AKU) during a seminar held on Monday at the AKU in connection with World Pneumonia Day.
Billo said that while the [...]

Aga Khan University and University of California, San Francisco form Partnership to Help the Underprivileged

 The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and the Aga Khan University (AKU) signed a memorandum of understanding today to advance their common goal to promote equitable human advancement and social justice in the less privileged parts of the world. The agreement was signed at the Capitol Building in Sacramento by Haile T Debas, MD, executive [...]

Aga Khan University: Pneumonia in children – the forgotten killer

Karachi, Pakistan; November 2, 2009: The world’s leading child killer is not measles or malaria, but pneumonia, which can be prevented through existing vaccines or treated with inexpensive antibiotics to reduce the number of children dying from this disease in Pakistan, said experts at Aga Khan University (AKU) on World Pneumonia Day.
Pneumonia kills more children [...]

One day free test workshop in Hyderabad organised by Aga Khan University

Source: E Jung

Aga Khan University: Bone and Joint Day 2009

Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi is commemorating Bone and Joint Day 2009. Join and learn about advances in medicine, technology and rehabilitation strategies to improve patients’ quality of life.
Date, Time and Venue
October 29, 2009  
4:00 – 5:30 pm
AKU Auditorium, Karachi, Pakistan
Programme

Lectures
Speakers

Shoulder problems and keyhole surgery
Dr M A Wajid
Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon

Ankle and foot problem in [...]

Less than 10 per cent of water available for drinking and sanitation

October 27, 2009: Around 1.8 million people die from diarrhoeal diseases globally, 90 per cent of whom are children under five, mostly in developing countries. In Pakistan, 630 children die each day from water-borne illnesses. Experts at the first day of Aga Khan University’s National Health Sciences Research Symposium on the Impact of Water and [...]

Symposium on Impact of Water and Sanitation on Health

KARACHI, The 13th National Health Sciences Research Symposium on ‘Impact of Water and Sanitation on Health, Our Problem, Our Solutions’ will be held from October 27 to 28, 2009 at Aga Khan University Auditorium, Karachi.
Pakistan has been unable to meet the water demand of the rapidly growing population resulting in low availability and poor [...]

Aga Khan University: World Pneumonia Awareness Day

Aga Khan University’s Department of Continuing Professional Education invites you to a programme Pneumonia – Forgotten Killer of Children on the occasion of World Pneumonia Awareness Day organised by the Division of Maternal and Child Health, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health and Johns Hopkins University (PneumoADIP and Hib Initiative). 
Time, Date and Venue
November 2, 2009
2:30 – [...]

Aga Khan University-EB’s first batch of HSSC students – Photographs

Aga Khan University-Examination Board’s first batch of HSSC students – Photographs.
 

Aga Khan University-EB’s first batch of HSSC students confident of success at university level

Karachi, Pakistan; October 22, 2009: Aga Khan University Examination Board (AKU-EB) celebrated a milestone at its High Achievers 2009 Awards Ceremony, recognising the outstanding results of the first batch of Higher Secondary School Certificate (HSSC), and the second batch of Secondary School Certificate (SSC) students. Subject-wise awards were also presented to high achieving SSC and [...]

Aga Khan University: Open House 2009-2010

This is an Open House with a difference. Not only will we provide candidates with information about the different academic programmes at AKU, but we will also hold a career counselling seminar, A Career for Me: Answering Some Questions for Myself, to help you decide on your career path. There will also be opportunities for [...]

Reminder: Aga Khan University: Unpacking the journey /Sounds of the Subcontinent

Aga Khan University: Unpacking the journey /Sounds of the Subcontinent.
October 21
Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Karachi, Pakistan
Sounds of the Subcontinent: Theory vs. Oral Tradition
The event includes a lecture and musical demonstration on the rich classical music heritage of the subcontinent.
Details: Review the older Post
October 21
Panel Discussion with Nizar Lalani and Njane Mugambi
Unpacking the [...]

Aga Khan University: A documentary screening of – The Wave that Shook the World…

Aga Khan University Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Karachi, Pakistan invites you to a documentary screening of The Wave that Shook the World …, followed by a question and answer session with Dr M. Asif Khan, Professor and Director, National Centre in Excellence in Geology, University of Peshawar.
 
Time and Venue
4:00 – 6:00 pm
AKU Auditorium, [...]

Aga Khan University: Unpacking the journey ….

Source: AKU

Aga Khan University: Breast Cancer Awareness Day

Aga Khan University is commemorating Breast Cancer Awareness Day on October 17, 2009 to discuss the advances in prevention, early detection, treatment and rehabilitation strategies.
 
Time and Venue
10:00 - 11:30 am
AKU Auditorium, Karachi, Pakistan   

Lectures
Speakers

Radiotherapy – Benefits and Side Effects
Dr Farrok Karsan
Consultant, Radiation Oncologist

Chemotherapy for Breast Cancer
Dr Adnan Zaidi
Consultant, Medical Oncologist

Breast Cancer – Prevention [...]

Aga Khan University: Sounds of the Subcontinent: Theory vs. Oral Tradition

Aga Khan University Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Karachi, Pakistan invites you to a lecture and musical demonstration on Sounds of the Subcontinent: Theory vs. Oral Tradition on October 21, 2009.
Time and Venue
4:00 – 6:00 pm
AKU Auditorium, Karachi, Pakistan   
Programme

Lecture on Ethnomusicology in South Asia – Theory vs. Oral Tradition by Dr Regula Burckhardt Qureshi [...]

Aga Khan University: Duration of Untreated Psychosis from Karachi, Pakistan

Substantial amount of time is lost before initiation of treatment in Schizophrenia. The delay in treatment is labelled as Duration of Untreated Psychosis (DUP). Most of these estimates come from western countries, where health systems are relatively better developed. There is dearth of information on pathway to care from developing countries.
Methods and Results Patients with [...]

AKU: Developing countries house 90 per cent of the world’s visually impaired

Developing countries house 90 per cent of the world’s visually impaired
Karachi, Pakistan; October 8, 2009: Worldwide more than 161 million people are visually impaired ­– WHO estimates that 37 million are blind while another 153 million suffer from near- and far-sightedness – with more than 90 per cent of these people living in low- and [...]