Introduction An understanding of the pathways to psychiatric care is critically important as a means of informing national policy and re-directing the meager resources towards better management of psychiatric patients. Since pathways to psychiatric care in South India are poorly understood we conducted a study in Mysore, South India to determine the various pathways to Psychiatric care. The aim...

Three synthetic pyrethroids were tested for their efficacy against two populations of the filariasis vector Culex quinquefasciatus under laboratory conditions following the WHO procedure, Emulsifiable concentration and technical grade formulations of deltamethrin (2.5% wp), cypermethrin (1.0% EC) and permethrin (25% EC) were employed on the larvae of the said species collected from Mysore and M...

Geographically.?Ten cases from Mysore City, four (cases 2, 3, 12, 13) from different large villages, situated at a distance of up to 40 miles from Mysore, within the city three patients (cases 5, 6, 7) who lived in two opposite houses and fell ill within one and the same week; in cases 1 and 10 and 11 and 14, respectively, the patients lived close to each other but each of these couples lived i...

Mysore State can roughly be divided into two parts, the Malnad and the Maidan. The first is named from the excessive rainfall it receives, and the second from the plains. The Malnad is a long strip of land bordering on the Western Ghats and comprises parts of Shimoga, Kadur, Hassan and Mysore districts (vide map 1). In the Malnad the annual rainfall ranges from 35 inches to 300 inches and the w...

BACKGROUND A baseline cross-sectional survey among female sex workers (FSWs) was conducted in four cities within the context of an implementation research project aiming to improve FSWs' access to HIV, and sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services. The survey measured where FSWs seek HIV/SRH care and what motivates their choice. METHODS Using respondent-driven sampling (RDS), FWSs were re...

OBJECTIVES This study assesses whether the observed declines in HIV prevalence since the beginning of the 'Avahan' India HIV/AIDS prevention initiative are consistent with self-reported increases in condom use by female sex workers (FSWs) in two districts of southern India, and provides estimates of the fraction of new infections averted among FSWs and clients due to increases in condom use in ...

The Mysore palace essentially refers to Ambavilas of Princely Mysore. was a modern state and model under wodeyars . rulers during the period 1881 1947 are Wodeyars .The city capital for At time settlement 1868, there were 25 departments (establishments) in which reduced 12 later. These comprised an entire administration on small scale. worked fulfill roles maintenance Maharaja’s house hold, per...

BACKGROUND Female sex workers (FSWs) are extremely vulnerable to adverse sexual and reproductive health (SRH) outcomes. To mitigate these risks, they require access to services covering not only HIV prevention but also contraception, cervical cancer screening and sexual violence. To develop context-specific intervention packages to improve uptake, we identified gaps in service utilization in fo...

Hans Zinsser's book Rats, Lice and History has depicted impressively the important role typhus in the cultural evolution of the human race. The epidemic form of the disease has even changed the history of nations. ^ certain uniformity in the symptomatology has pen established in the louse-borne epidemic j;0rm as a contrast to the numerous endemic forms. The manifestation of the tsutsugamushi ;^...