Dean, College of Dental Sciences & Research Centre, Manipur, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. H.D.D. & Professor, Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery. Professor, Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, College of Dental Sciences & Research Centre, Manipur, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. Senior Lecturer, Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, College of Dental Sciences & Research Centre, M...

A total of 531 sexually active female populations from Manipur (north-eastern India), was chosen for this study. Out of 531 females from Manipur, 111 (20.9%) were HIV positive and 420 were HIV negative (79%). PCR amplification of the MY region of the HPV L1 gene using consensus MY09/11 primer showed 3.7% positivity in Manipur. Interestingly HPV infection among the HIV infected population from M...

BACKGROUND There is an HIV epidemic among people who inject drugs (PWID) in Manipur and Nagaland, Northeast India. Approximately one-third of PWID across these two states are aged below 25 years, yet until now there has been no systematic investigation of the differences between the younger and older PWID. We sought to profile differences in drug use and sexual practices across age groups and t...

PROBLEM Harm reduction packages for people who inject illicit drugs, including those infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), are cost-effective but have not been scaled up globally. In the north-eastern Indian states of Manipur and Nagaland, the epidemic of HIV infection is driven by the injection of illicit drugs, especially opioids. These states needed to scale up harm reduction pro...

Almost every family in Manipur has a member afflicted with urolithiasis. Standard pharmaceutical drugs used to prevent and cure urolithiasis are not effective in all cases, costly, quite common recurrences, risks of long term fertility, potential side effects and no guarantee. Despite the improvements in medical techniques such as extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy and percutaneous nephrosto...

Aims: With many Manipur farmers depending on pineapple cultivation, it was essential to understand the constraints faced by in cultivation. Thus, study aimed identify cultivation and value-addition activities State of Manipur.
 Study Design: purposively selected for study. Totally three major growing districts viz Senapati, Churachandpur, Thoubal were considered, 120 60 intermediaries inte...

The North-Eastern region (NER) of India, comprising of Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland and Tripura, is a hot spot for genetic diversity and the most probable origin of rice. North-east rice collections are known to possess various agronomically important traits like biotic and abiotic stress tolerance, unique grain and cooking quality. The genetic diversity and a...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES It is well documented that the Northeast state of Manipur in India has been dealing with the dual problems of injecting drug use and HIV for the last two decades, but the hepatitis C problem has not been so well characterized. The aim of this study was to assess the prevalence of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection and HCV/HIV co-infection among people who inject drugs (PW...

UNLABELLED BACKGROUND HIV risks for women who inject drugs and those who engage in sex work are well documented. Women who are dependent on non-injecting drugs and alcohol are also likely to have increased vulnerability to HIV infection, but until they actually inject drugs or engage in sex work, are unlikely to come to the attention of HIV prevention programs. METHODS We undertook a quali...