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Farmers Willingness To Pay (WTP) for improving the quality of public livestock services delivery, in terms of Service Provider and Farmer Relationship (SPFR), chance of recovery from ailments and chance of conception following Artificial Insemination (AI), was assessed through Contingent Valuation (CV) in southern peninsular state of India, the Tamil Nadu State. The districts of the state were categorized as 'Livestock Developed' (LD) and 'Livestock Under Developed' (LUD) based on initial base line developed. Contingent Valuation (CV) approach and Tobit regressions were used to assess variations in the stated Willingness To Pay (WTP) values, and the probability of stating a positive WTP value for respondents who declared that they were not willing to pay. Overall, the respondents in the study area were willing to pay INR 3.91 for improving the SPFR attribute of the public veterinary centre, while they were ready to pay INR 5.84 for augmenting the chances of recovery from illness by the services of public veterinary centres. In order to benefit from improved chance of conception of their bovines after AI, the farmers were willing to pay INR 11.71. An absolute concordance on the levels of attributes and the variations in the stated positive WTP values for quality improvements was noticed. Tobit regression analyses on the improvements of all above attributes indicated that the farmers who were at disadvantaged levels of an attribute were willing to pay more compared to those at an advantaged level.

Evaluating the response of dental health care professionals (staff and students) in willingness to provide treatment to HIV/AIDS patients was the main objective.Dentists have an ethical responsibility to provide treatment to HIV-infected patients, particularly because oral lesions are common among them.Also, people with HIV infection require increasingly competent and compassionate health care, including oral health care. As access to oral health care is extremely important for those infected with HIV, oral findings can lead to early detection and management of HIV infection.According to this survey based study, 77% of the Dentists have opted to treat HIV patients willingly. This will improve the health of HIV infected patients both physically and mentally.

Early and accurate detection of HIV infection is essential for patient management and disease control. The primary methodology for HIV testing has shifted from enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) to rapid diagnostic tests in recent years, especially in resource limited settings. The study correlate two new commercial serologic tests for HIV (ALTA rapid test reader RTR-1, CTK Biotech and HIV ELISA; Genscreen TM ULTRA HIV Ag-Ab). The sensitivity and specificity of the HIV tests were compared using unknown HIV status of 955 specimens. The two different assays showed excellent sensitivity in the diagnosis of HIV infection (100%). Specificity in RTR was (100%), whereas it is (98.3%) in ELISA which indicates, ELISA given (1.7%) false positive results. Rapid test reader can be useful in the effective and economical screening method for HIV infection. However, rapid test reader is not a substitute for ELISA method