BACKGROUND Despite ample evidence that HIV has entered the general population, most HIV awareness programs in India continue to neglect rural areas. Low HIV awareness and high stigma, fueled by low literacy, seasonal migration, gender inequity, spatial dispersion, and cultural taboos pose extra challenges to implement much-needed HIV education programs in rural areas. This paper describes a pee...

Background: Circumcision is the most common surgical intervention performed in non-medical settings. It is the most common but neglected procedure in our country. Barbers, quacks and other non qualified persons perform circumcision by their own methods without proper sterilization and without knowing the consequences. Objectives: The objectives of our study were to determine different methods o...

BACKGROUND The magnitude of chronic infection with hepatitis B virus (HBV) varies substantially between the countries. A better understanding of incidence and/ or prevalence of HBV infection and associated risk factors provides insight into the transmission of this infection in the community. The purpose of this investigation was to estimate the prevalence of and to identify the risk factors as...

Abstract Rapid diagnosis of SARS-CoV-2 during pandemic enables timely treatment and prevention COVID-19. Evaluating the accuracy reliability rapid diagnostic testing kits is crucial for surveillance infections in general population, injection drug users, multi-transfused populations, healthcare workers, prisoners, barbers other high risk populations. The aim this study was to evaluate performan...