Dinesh Mondal, Shri Prakash Singh, Narendra Kumar, Anand Joshi et al.
OBJECTIVE: We sought to estimate visceral leishmaniasis (VL) burden in Bangladesh, India, and Nepal and document care-seeking behaviour for VL to provide baseline information for monitoring the VL elimination program and identify options for improved case finding and management. DESIGN: A cross-sect...
Anand Joshi, J P Narain, C Prasittisuk, Rajesh Bhatia et al.
Data on the burden of visceral leishmaniasis (VL) in Indian sub-continent are vital for elimination programme planners for estimating resource requirements, effective implementation and monitoring of elimination programme. In Indian sub-continent, about 200 million population is at risk of VL. Nearl...
Anand Joshi, Murari Lal Das, Shireen Akhter, Rajib Chowdhury et al.
BACKGROUND: Bangladesh, India and Nepal are working towards the elimination of visceral leishmaniasis (VL) by 2015. In 2005 the World Health Organization/Training in Tropical Diseases launched an implementation research programme to support integrated vector management for the elimination of VL from...
Anand K. Joshi, Devendra Dandotiya, C. S. Ramesh, Satyam Panchal
<div class="section abstract"><div class="htmlview paragraph">Nowadays electric vehicle is replacing internal combustion engines in the transport sector. The growth of electric vehicles is increasing rapidly to reduce the impact of global warming and climate change. The battery limits th...
Siddhivinayak Hirve, Shri Prakash Singh, Narendra Kumar, Megha Raj Banjara et al.
This study analyzed the effectiveness of active case detection (ACD) for new visceral leishmaniasis (VL) cases. ACD detection was carried out using house to house screening in Bangladesh and India and by neighborhood screening around index cases in Nepal. The percent increase of new VL cases through...
Md. Farhad, Shashi Bhushan Tripathi, Ravi P. Singh, Arun Kumar Joshi et al.
Abstract Genotypes developed for a particular mega‐environment or management condition may not suit different management or specific local environments. Planting earlier than the recommended planting time is currently a new avenue to improve genotypic performance, supporting horizontal yield increas...
Murari Lal Das, Megha Raj Banjara, Rajib Chowdhury, Vijay Kumar et al.
The sandflies that transmit the parasites causing human visceral leishmaniasis (VL) can be controlled by several methods, including indoor residual spraying (IRS), the use of long-lasting insecticidal nets (LLIN) and ecological vector management (EVM). The financial costs of each of these three meth...
Megha Raj Banjara, Anand Joshi
Visceral leishmaniasis is an important public health problem in Nepal. In 2005, Bangladesh, India, and Nepal signed a memorandum of understanding to eliminate visceral leishmaniasis in this region by 2015. As the elimination target was not reached in 2015, the date has been extended to 2020. The vis...
Stacy L. Davlin, Alexander H. Jones, Sanya Tahmina, Abdullah Al Kawsar et al.
BACKGROUND: In 2016, after 8 years of twice-annual nationwide preventive chemotherapy (PC) administration to school-age children (SAC), the Bangladesh Ministry of Health & Family Welfare (MOHFW) sought improved impact and intervention monitoring data to assess progress toward the newly adopted goal ...
Manoj Joshi, Mukesh Kumar Chalise, Anand Chaudhary, Hem Bahadur Katuwal
<p>There is evidence that Himalayan Vulture <em>Gyps himalayensis</em> is susceptible to the veterinary drug diclofenac, which is responsible for the decline of other <em>Gyps </em>species across South Asia. Unlike other <em>Gyps </em>species, there is littl...
Md Faruq, Mst Shirajum Munira, Sonia Zaman, Sabiha Ferdowsy Koly et al.
Tabernaemontana divaricata belongs to the family of Apocynaceae, found in Asia, Africa, Australia, North and South America and a wide assortment of oceanic islands. Experimentally, T. divaricata are shown to possess reversible acethylcholinesterase inhibitory effect/roots part [18], anti-Obesity / l...
Anand Joshi, Megha Raj Banjara, Sachi Chuke, Axel Kroeger et al.
Nepal, Bangladesh, and India signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in 2005 to eliminate visceral leishmaniasis (VL) as a public health problem from the Indian subcontinent by 2015. By 2021, the number of reported VL cases in these countries had declined by over 95% compared to 2007. This dramat...
Narendra Kumar, Shri Prakash Singh, Dinesh Mondal, Anand Joshi et al.
BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES: Three countries, Bangladesh, India and Nepal, set out to eliminate kala-azar by 2015. This study was aimed to document the knowledge and practices in kala-azar case management of public and private health providers in these three countries. METHODS: A health care provider su...
Devendra Dandotiya, Anand K. Joshi, Pallabi Kakati, J. Sudharshan
The primary objective of this study was to explore the impact of integrating nano-additives on heat transfer enhancement within an LHTES (Latent Heat Thermal Energy Storage) system. Our findings revealed that introducing a minimal amount of nano-materials (less than 5.0 vol%) into the Phase Change M...
Sneha Joshi, Rupa Mishra, Madhura Kulkarni, Devaki A. Kelkar et al.
On January 13th and 14th 2022, the Center for Translational Cancer Research organized the virtual third Indian Cancer Genome Atlas (ICGA) Conference 2022 "Biobanking to Omics - Collecting the Global Experience." This conference was planned as the steppingstone to help ICGA understand the road ahead ...