Conflict and displacement make affected population more vulnerable to HIV infection. Refugees and internally displaced persons, in particular women and children, are at increased risk of exposure to HIV. In Nepal, there is considerable increase in the number of HIV infection since 1996 when conflict started. Along with poverty, stigma and lack of awareness, conflict related displacement, econom...

Correspondence: Dr. Keyoor Gautam, MD Department of Pathology, Nepal Medical College, Kathmandu, Nepal Email: [email protected] Background: Granulomatous skin lesions often present as a diagnostic challenge to dermatopathologists due to various modes of presentation and identical histological picture produced by several causes. The aim of the study was to study different granulomatous skin l...

Correspondence: Dr. Shovana Karki, MD Department of Pathology, Institute of Medicine, Tribhuvan university teaching hospital, Kathmandu, Nepal Email: [email protected] Background: Testicular cancers are rare in most countries. However, in many western countries its incidence has been increasing since the middle of the twentieth century. A definite geographic and racial distribution is s...

Buckwheat is a sixth staple food crop after rice, wheat, maize, fingermillet, and barley inNepal. It is considered as an alternate cereal and poor man’s crop, representing an important food supply in remote places of Himalayas. It is the best crop in higher altitude in terms of adaptation to different climatic variables and easily fitted to different cropping patterns due to short duration. It ...

We model crustal deformation and the resulting thermal structure across the Nepal Himalaya, assuming that, since 20Ma, shortening across the range has been primarily taken up by slip along a single thrust fault, the Main Himalayan Thrust (MHT) Fault, and that the growth of the Himalayan wedge has resulted mainly from underplating and to the development of a duplex at midcrustal depth. We show t...

The Himalaya is the most impressive example on earth of an active collisional orogen. It combines rapid crustal shortening and thickening, intense denudation driven by the monsoon climate, and frequent very large earthquakes along an incomparably long and high mountain arc. It has therefore been the focus of a variety of investigations that have addressed various aspects of mountain building on...

Introduction: The prevalence of type 2 diabetes has been escalating worldwide, including low- and middle-income countries such as Nepal. Early detection of individuals at risk is of the utmost importance to prevent the escalating condition. This study used a simple, cost-effective screening tool known as the Indian Diabetes Risk Score (IDRS) in order to assess the proportion of...

Nepal has been suffering from the worst crisis of its history since 12 February 1996. Since the onset of Maoist insurgency -(the Maoists call it ‘People’s War’)more than 7000 people -including state forces, insurgents and innocent civilians -have lost their lives and many thousands are internally displaced in violent conflicts in the country. The conflict was initiated from socially and economi...

A nationwide outbreak of acute hemorrhagic conjunctivitis (AHC) occurred in Nepal during August to September 2003, which affected nearly half of the population. Sixty conjunctival swabs from AHC patients were collected at Tilganga Eye Center in Kathmandu. For the first time in Nepal, we demonstrated the etiologic viral agents of AHC, namely, Coxsackievirus A24 variant (CA24v) by reverse transcr...

1177. Meterology-driven Prediction of RSV/RHV Incidence in Rural Nepal Anna Scott, MS; Janet Englund, MD, FIDSA; Helen Chu, MD MPH; James Tielsch, PhD; James Tielsch, PhD; Subarna Khatry, MBBS, DOMS; Steven C Leclerq, MPH; Laxman Shrestha, MBBS, MD; Jane Kuypers, PhD; Mark C. Steinhoff, MD, FIDSA and Joanne Katz, ScD; Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, University of Washington/Seatt...