Factors Associated with the Development of Secondary Multidrug-resistant Tuberculosis.

Background: Spread of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) is a threat to India's TB control program. We conducted this study with the objective to determine the risk factors for the development of secondary multidrug-resistant TB.

Methods: We conducted an unmatched case-control study involving 247 multidrug-resistant TB patients as "cases" and 494 individuals who were declared as "cured" after category I DOTS treatment as "controls.

Time spent being malnourished during the first five years of life! An unseen aspect of child malnutrition.

The burden of malnutrition is often estimated in terms of 'prevalence' without considering two important contributing factors: incidence and duration. To illustrate this, we conducted a community-based retrospective cohort study involving 24,278 children enrolled in an integrated child development scheme in India. Anthropometric data of study participants from birth to five years of age were collected from the growth charts maintained by Anganwadi workers.

How healthy are children one year after discharge from nutritional rehabilitation centres?

Nutritional rehabilitation centres (NRCs) have been established to ensure the nutritional recovery of severely malnourished children. The long-term nutritional outcomes in children discharged from NRCs have not been described. In this retrospective cohort study, the nutritional status of 514 children was assessed one year after discharge.

In the dark even after a decade! A 10-year analysis of India's National Rural Health Mission: Is family medicine the answer to the shortage of specialist doctor in India?

The National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) has been successful in reducing maternal, infant, and child mortality rates in India. In addition, it has tremendously improved the infrastructure of India's public health system. It has also placed at least one Accredited Social Health Activist worker in every village of India.