BACKGROUND Red cell inherited hemoglobin (Hb) anomalies are commonly encountered in the central region of India. These cause a public health concern due to high level of morbidity, mortality, and fetal loss in the backward, underprivileged, and vulnerable people. PURPOSE To report five typical families of Hb E disorders for the first time detected and identified from various districts of the ...

Tapas Chakma is Deputy Director, and J. Bhatt, P.V. Rao, P. Meshram and S.B. Singh work for the Regional Medical Research Center for Tribals, Jabalpur, India; Sam Godfrey is Water and Environmental Sanitation Specialist, UNICEF, Mozambique (formerly Bhopal, India). The authors are grateful to UNICEF, Madhya Pradesh Offi ce for fi nancial support for the project, to Mr Aditya Swami for assisting...

BACKGROUND In India, presently malaria shows a declining trend whereas Plasmodium falciparum (Pf) cases show an up trend. In central India, specifically, Madhya Pradesh (M.P.) a forested and tribal area, control of malaria is logistically difficult and outbreaks are frequently recorded, reasons for this being inadequate surveillance, poor reporting, a time lag in reporting to decision makers an...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES The mass drug administration (MDA) is one of the strategies to eliminate lymphatic filariasis in India. Eleven districts are endemic for the disease in Madhya Pradesh state of India, which conduct MDA activities annually. A mid-term evaluation was conducted with the objectives to review the progress of the single dose of di-ethyl-carbamazine (DEC) administration, and to ...

Introduction: Lymphatic filariasis (LF) is a crucial public health menace in India. It is one of the leading causes of long-term permanent disability, accounting for more than 5 million disability-adjusted life years annually. The mass drug administration (MDA) is one of the strategies to eliminate LF in India. 11 districts are endemic for the disease in Madhya Pradesh, which conduct MDA activi...

In the fight against leprosy drug resistance poses a serious impediment at a stage when there is dramatic decline in prevalence due to intensive and concerted chemotherapy intervention. Drug resistance in leprosy has been reported since 1964 for dapsone, 1976 for rifampicin and 1996 for ofloxacin. Recent reports and publications have indicated few instances of rifampicin resistance in several e...

Abstract Background Large-scale hunting and various anthropogenic pressures in the recent past have pushed Asiatic caracal ( Caracal schmitzi ), an elusive medium-sized locally threatened felid species towards local extinction India. Though widely distributed historically, it has been sparsely reported from several regions of central northern states India till twentieth century. Later, distribu...

The paper aims to draw out biosocial correlates of nutrition through body mass index (BMI) and chronic energy deficiency (CED). The findings are based on cross-sectional data of 446 women aged 18-60 years from six different endogamous groups of two ecological zones. The mean age of studied women varied from 31 to 36 years. The mean age at menarche was found to be 14.50±1.32 years. Similarly mea...

BACKGROUND Access to emergency obstetric care by competent staff can reduce maternal mortality. India has launched the Janani Suraksha Yojana (JSY) conditional cash transfer program to promote institutional births. During implementation of the JSY, India witnessed a steep increase in the proportion of institutional deliveries-from 40% in 2004 to 73% in 2012. However, maternal mortality reductio...