The study conducted in retrospective manner in 150 bedded Government Victoria Hospital Maternity Hospital affiliated to Andhra Medical College, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh. The rates and indications of primary and repeat C during the year 2014 and present C rates. In our study, the Cesarean section rate was 25.66%. last decade from 16.14% in 2004, 20.33% in 2009 to 25 rise in CS is due to inc...

SUMAN JAIN*, LEO H. VISSER**, MURALIDHAR REDDY YERASU***, RENUKA RAJU*, A.K. MEENA***, B LOKESH**** & SUJAI SUNEETHA* *CODEWEL Nireekshana ACET, Narayanaguda, Hyderabad, India **Department of Neurology and Clinical Neurophysiology, St. Elisabeth Hospital, Tilburg, The Netherlands ***Department of Neurology, Nizams Institute of Medical Sciences, Panjagutta, Hyderabad, India ****Department of Neu...

Here, we present the 6.1-Mb draft genome sequence of Rhodococcus rhodochrous strain KG-21, a soil isolate from the oil fields of Krishna-Godavari Basin in Andhra Pradesh, India. This genomic resource may help in the identification of the gene(s) involved in hydrocarbon degradation and their possible deployment for bioremediation.

The present study was carried out among two tribal populations residing in Khammam district of Andhra Pradesh, South India. A sample of 132 Koyadora and 40 Nayakpod individuals of all ages were collected for the purpose of screening for the glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency, haptoglobins, transferrins and

P. Singh,1* P.K. Aggarwal,2** V.S. Bhatia,3*** M.V.R. Murty,1**** M. Pala,4 T. Oweis,4***** B. Benli,4 K.P.C. Rao5****** and S.P. Wani1******* 1International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Patancheru 502 324, Andhra Pradesh, India; 2Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI), New Delhi 110 012, India; 3National Research Centre for Soybean (NRCS), Khandwa Road, ...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES Scrub typhus is a major public health threat in South and Southeastern Asian countries including India. Understanding local patterns of disease and factors that place individuals at risk is pivotal to future preventive measures against scrub typhus. The primary aim of this study was to identify specific epidemiological and geographical factors associated with an increase...

BACKGROUND Families living below the poverty line in countries which do not have universal healthcare coverage are drawn into indebtedness and bankruptcy. The state of Andhra Pradesh in India established the Rajiv Aarogyasri Community Health Insurance Scheme (RACHIS) in 2007 with the aim of breaking this cycle by improving the access of below the poverty line (BPL) families to secondary and ter...

This paper describes the microenterprise and microfinance sectors of seven English-speaking Caribbean states, examines main constraints on the development of a well functioning microfinance market in these countries, and highlights the amount, type, and results obtained in microenterprise projects financed by the Inter-American Bank in the last fifteen years. It suggests that English-speaking C...

Microfinance institutions have long recognized that providing women with access to loans empowers them in a number of ways. However, different microfinance service delivery models have been tested in various socioeconomic and cultural circumstances with varying results. This article highlights two major models: Group Guarantee Lending and Community Managed Loan Funds. It gives an overview of th...

Credit scoring systems are currently in common use by numerous financial institutions worldwide. However, credit scoring with the microfinance industry is a relatively recent application, and no model which employs a non-parametric statistical technique has yet, to the best of our knowledge, been published. This lack is surprising since the implementation of credit scoring should contribute tow...