This paper addresses issue of inter-district disparity at district-level in Bihar. An attempt has been made to identify the backward regions/districts of the state in terms of four development sectors for instance, agriculture, services, education and health. The study has used 34 indicators which explain the level of economic and social development. For measuring disparity and inter-district v...

Sera of kala-azar patients from Bihar, India, were used to identify Leishmania donovani antigens encoded by a phage expression library. Ten antigens were identified, five of which have not been described as leishmania antigens before. The antigens specifically react with sera of leishmania-infected patients but not of toxoplasma- or plasmodium-infected patients.

Indian Journal of Psychiatry Volume 59, Issue 2, April-June 2017 250 Department of Oral Medicine and Radiology, Teerthanker Mahaveer Dental College and Research Centre, 1Department of Pharmacology, Teerthanker Mahaveer Medical College and Research Centre, Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh, 2Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Darbhanga Medical College and Hospital, Darbhanga, Bihar, India. E-mail: drvpgir...

OBJECTIVE Visceral Leishmaniasis (VL) is highly prevalent in Bihar, India. India and its neighbours aim at eliminating VL, but several knowledge gaps in the epidemiology of VL may hamper that effort. The prevalence of asymptomatic infections with Leishmania donovani and their role in transmission dynamics are not well understood. We report data from a sero-survey in Bihar. METHODS Demographic...

BACKGROUND Soil-transmitted helminths (STHs) infect over a billion individuals worldwide. In India, 241 million children are estimated to need deworming to avert the negative consequences STH infections can have on child health and development. In February-April 2011, 17 million children in Bihar State were dewormed during a government-led school-based deworming campaign. Prior to programme imp...

Using data from all three rounds of the National Family Health Survey, this study examines the trends and determinants of unmet need for family planning in the state of Bihar. Bivariate analysis was carried out to examine the level and trends of unmet need for family. Binary logistic regression was used to examine the factor affecting unmet need for family planning. About 25% of the currently m...

BACKGROUND A substantial reduction in neonatal deaths is required in India to meet the Millennium Development Goal of a two-thirds reduction in child mortality by 2015. We report neonatal mortality estimates and utilisation of maternal care in the Indian state of Bihar. METHODS A representative population-based sample of 14,293 women who had a live birth in the last 12 months based on multist...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVE Bihar State of India has been an endemic State for kala-azar. There has been many phases of DDT sprays for vector control. An outbreak of kala-azar occurred in Goanpura, 6 km from Patna, Bihar, in 2003. We undertook this study with a new approach of kala-azar elimination in this village with priority to treatment of cases followed by supplementation with supervised DDT sp...

In this study, an attempt has been made to derive the spatial patterns of temporal trends in phenology metrics and productivity of crops grown, at disaggregated level in Indo-Gangetic Plains of India (IGP), which are helpful in understanding the impact of climatic, ecological and socio-economic drivers. The NOAA-AVHRR NDVI PAL dataset from 1982 to 2001 available at a pixel size of 8x8 km and at...

OBJECTIVES Dry cord care is recommended for all births by the Health Ministry in India. We report prevalence of antiseptic cord care in the context of neonatal mortality in the Indian state of Bihar. DESIGN Population-based cross-sectional study with multistage stratified random sampling. SETTING Households in 1017 clusters in Bihar. PARTICIPANTS A representative sample of 12 015 women wi...