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Background: Lymphatic filariasis or elephantiasis is the most debilitating and disfiguring scourge among all diseases. The National Health Policy (2017) has set the goal of elimination of lymphatic filariasis in endemic pockets in India by 2017. The concept of MDA is to approach every individual in the target community and administer annual single dose of anti-filarial drugs. The objectives of the study were to assess the coverage, compliance and causes for noncompliance towards MDA in Vijayapura district and to assess the rates of directly observed treatment, source of information on MDA and incidence of side effects related to MDA Programme.Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted in one urban and three rural clusters in Vijayapura district of Karnataka. Totally 120 houses were covered with minimum of 30 houses in each of the cluster. Data was collected in a structured proforma by interview technique and entered in Microsoft Excel-2010 and analyzed with SPSS version 22.Results: Out of 120 houses visited in 4 clusters consisting of 398 beneficiaries, the coverage of MDA was 80.3% and 72.5% had consumed the tablets. The coverage compliance gap was 7.8%. 71.7% of the respondents, had awareness regarding elephantiasis. The most common reason quoted by the beneficiaries for not consuming the tablet was lack of information of MDA programme/ Lf (13%) followed by fear of drugs (10%).Conclusions: BCC is the essence of the hour to fulfil the goal of elimination of lymphatic filariasis; there is need for intensive IEC activities addressing the misconceptions among beneficiaries regarding adverse reactions of MDA through mass media, interpersonal communications.

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Background: India is the home to almost half the tribal population of the world and is second to Africa in terms of tribal mass. Because of acculturation many of these tribal have come out and relocated themselves outside the forest. As a result, life style has been changed which resulted in development of non-communicable diseases. In this context this study was carried out to estimate the prevalence CVD risk factors and to predict the cardiovascular events among tribal population, utilizing WHO/ISH risk prediction chart. Methods: Community based cross sectional study done for a period of 3 months. Information regarding socio demographic profile and risk factors were collected. Anthropometric measurements, Blood pressure, Random capillary Blood glucose were recorded. WHO/ISH risk prediction chart for SEAR D was used to assess the CVD risk in next 10 year. Data was analysed used SPSS version 25. Results were expressed as percentage and mean. Chi square test was used to find out the association. Results: Among 120 study population, 33.3% belongs to the age group of 40-49 years, 55% were females, 59.2% belongs to nuclear family, 39.2% were unskilled and 62.5% were uneducated. Prevalence of CVD risk factors among were as follows: Tobacco consumption (25.8%), alcohol (16.7%), diabetes (3.33%), hypertension (48.3%) and obesity (19.2%). 62.5% population had less than 10% (mild) risk and 11.7% had ≥40% (high) risk of developing. Conclusion: Aggressive screening is needed as many were unaware about theirs NCD status.

Background: Adolescent pregnancies are more likely seen in poor, uneducated and rural communities. Pregnancy in adolescence is raising problem of all nations including India. There is lot of social pressure among these girls to marry at this tender age and after marriage face the next task of pregnancy which means to have children. The study was conducted with the objective to estimate magnitude of teenage pregnancy in rural community, to assess the sociocultural dimensions determining teenage pregnancies and to assess the perception of teenage mothers on their social status. Methods: Pre tested and semi structured questionnaire through interview technique. Adolescent girls aged 10-19 years who were already mothers or pregnant at the time of the survey and women aged 20 -24 years married before the age of 18 years were included in survey. Descriptive statistics like percentage, mean and standard deviation were applied. Results: 54(37.8%) of study participants belonged to the age group of 16-20 years, 52(36.3%) of study participants belonged to Class V according to modified B.G. Prasad socioeconomic status, 81(56.6%) of study participants were married by the age of 16yrs, 93(65.1%) study participants knew one or other family planning methods, Educating about the hazards of adolescent pregnancy in the community, traditional practices can be changed and thereby decreasing early marriages and by this means early pregnancies. Conclusions: There is a need of more B.C.C. activities to increase the age of marriage even though which is legalized at age of 18 years but to follow the same and by thus avoiding this easily avoidable health burden and by educating about the hazards of adolescent pregnancy in the community, traditional practices can be changed and thereby decreasing early marriages and by this means early pregnancies.