The emergence of HIV in rural India has the potential to heighten gender inequity in a context where women already suffer significant health disparities. Recent Indian health policies provide new opportunities to identify and implement gender-equitable rural HIV services. In this review, we adapt Mosley and Chen's conceptual framework of health to outline determinants for HIV health services ut...

The crux of this paper is to examine rural development programme implementation in developing countries with China and India as case studies. The paper examines various strategies adopted by these countries in the implementation of rural development policies and programmes. The study adopts desk research as its methodological orientation. The result of the analysis reveals that the Chinese and ...

During the period 1971–2000, studies from different parts of India reported a 10-fold increase in the incidence of diabetes in urban India (from 1.2% in 1971 to 12.1% in 2000).5-7 In 2003–2005, a national survey was conducted in persons of age greater than or equal to 15 years, in which self-reported prevalence of diabetes was 7.3% in the urban areas and 3.2% in periurban slum areas. The preval...

BACKGROUND Diabetes care is not presently available, accessible, or affordable to people living in rural areas in developing countries, such as India. The Chunampet Rural Diabetes Prevention Project (CRDPP) was conceived with the aim of implementing comprehensive diabetes screening, prevention, and treatment using a combination of telemedicine and personalized care in rural India. METHODS Thi...

In recent years there has been a great deal of discussion on the working of village forest institutions (VFI) in developing countries with a view to understanding their role as rural institutions. In a tropical country like India, the success of any community based forest management effort largely depends on the emergence as well as role played by the institutions at local village level, which ...

The Commercializing Renewable Energy in India (CREI) project is aimed at strengthening local entrepreneurial capacity for sustained commercial operation of rural energy enterprises that harness renewable energy technologies to service productive use applications in selected areas of southern Andhra Pradesh (AP), India. The distinguishing feature of this project is that it links the commercializ...

Rural Markets are defined as those segments of overall market of any economy, which are distinct from the other types of markets like stock market, commodity markets or Labor economics. Rural Markets constitute an important segment of overall economy. In recent years, rural markets have acquired significance in countries like China and India, as the overall growth of the economy has resulted in...

OBJECTIVES To describe the prevalence and determinants of births by caesarean section in private and public health facilities in underserved communities in South Asia. DESIGN Cross-sectional study. SETTING 81 community-based geographical clusters in four locations in Bangladesh, India and Nepal (three rural, one urban). PARTICIPANTS 45,327 births occurring in the study areas between 2005 ...

Rural development in the Indian / III world context is still dominated by rural way of life up to now and likely to be for quite some time in the future. By simple statistics, up to 80% of the population lives in villages, or semi urban environment. Thus rural development / III world development has much more to do with attitudes, perceptions and sensitivities, and less with technologyper-se. T...

Introduction On the occasion the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) completing its five years, Mr. G B Azad, minister of health and family welfare, declared in his speech “the non-availability of critical human resources continues to be an even larger challenge for which there are no easy solutions”. One of the key priorities of NRHM is to increase availability of human resources in rural Ind...