Background: School lunch programme provided by government of India at free of cost, its components use in the clinical settings are well defined, the present study aims at assessing the parent's awareness regarding school lunch programme (SLP). Objectives 1. To assess the awareness of parents regarding school lunch programme. 2. To find the association between the level awareness among the parents with their sociodemographic variables. Method: A study was used to assess the awareness of parents regarding SLP at Bagadpur, Uttar Pradesh. Data was collected from 80 samples using convenient sampling technique by structured questionnaire. The collected data was analysed using descriptive and inferential statistics and presents in the form of tables and figures. Result: 1.25% parents have adequate level of awareness, 73.75% have moderate level of awareness and 25.00% have inadequate level of awareness. Conclusion:There was no statistically significant association between sociodemographic variables of the respondents with their level of awareness.

Introduction: Purdah or pardah is a Persian word which translated loosely to mean ‘curtain’, is a religious and social practice of female seclusion prevalent among some Muslim communities.  In stating the reasons for the need of purdah, the Qu’ran declares that “the observance of hijab is so that the (pure and pious women) may be recognized and not be molested” Cervical cancer is a malignant disease of the cervix. The disease has a pre-malignant stage which usually occurs in younger women.  Carcinoma of the cervix is associated with the following risk factors; early age at first sexual intercourse, multiple male sexual partners,  male sexual partners who have had multiple partners, early age at first birth, multiparty, smoking, long-term use of oral contraceptive pills, immunosuppressed states. Cervical cancer is preventable through vaccination and can be easily diagnosed, but prevention and diagnostic programmes are not widely available in the developing world (Branca et al., 2003). Rates of cervical cancer are four to five times higher among women living with HIV than among HIV negative women, while the overall risk of acquiring HIV among women doubles when women are infected with the human papillomavirus, a cause of cervical cancer. Aim: To study the Prevalence, Knowledge, Attitude, Beliefs and Practice of cervical cancer in HIV positive women in purdah and HIV positive women not in purdah, and relate this to the prevalence of cervical cancer. Methods: The study was a cross-sectional study to determine the prevalence of cervical cancer among HIV positive women in purdah attending the anti retroviral therapy (ART) Clinic of the Federal Teaching Hospital, Gombe. A sample size of 150 each was used for both the subject group and controls. HIV positive women in purdah=150 subjects, HIV positive women not in purdah= 150 subjects and HIV negative women not in purdah =150 subjects. Sample size equals 450 to give room for alteration. Results: Results collected using the questionnaire revealed that only a mean of about 41 (27.3%) HIV positive women in purdah had correct knowledge of Cervical Cancer as compared with HIV positive women not in purdah who had a mean of 129 (86.0%)  and 114 (76.7%)  for  HIV negative women not in purdah.  Large percentage of 61.3% of HIV positive women in Purdah, 86.0% of HIV positive women not in purdah and 76.7% of HIV negative women not in purdah, had previous knowledge of Cervical Cancer. The knowledge about the link between early marriages to increased risk of cervical cancer was not low amongst HIV positive women in purdah (34.7%) but this was not the case with their counterparts as 86.0% of HIV positive women not in purdah and 80.7% of HIV negative women in purdah were knowledgeable about the link. Not less than 95% of women in all groups expressed   indifference towards the gender of the personnel collecting the Pap smear nevertheless some still showed some reluctance towards having their pap smear collected by personnel of the opposite sex. Women in purdah showed the highest percentage of this reluctance (4.7%).  As regards to practices, the women in purdah had a mean positive practice of 63.3% as against 58.7% and 60.8% respectively of the control group (HIV positive women not in purdah and HIV negative women not in purdah). Women in purdah had a higher positive practice in all cases except the issues of husbands deciding the number of children (16.7% -HIV positive women in purdah, 88.0% -HIV positive women not in purdah and 100% -HIV negative women not in purdah) and husbands deciding when to stop having children (35.5% -HIV positive women in purdah, 52.0% -HIV positive women not in purdah and 43.3% -HIV negative women not in purdah). Conclusion: The prevalence of cervical lesions in HIV positive women in purdah (42.0%) is higher than that of HIV negative women not in purdah (16.0%), but lower than that of HIV positive women not in purdah (56.0%).Hiv positive women in purdah had the lowest knowledge of cervical cancer with a mean score of (27.3%) while the control groups had a higher knowledge of 86.0% and 76.7% respectively. This implies that there is need for comprehensive and correct knowledge, positive attitude/ beliefs and positive behavioral practice are important in the control of cervical cancer and diseases in general.

The purpose of this study was to determine the knowledge and attitude of men toward women living with vesicovaginal fistula in Bauchi State, Nigeria. Survey design was used for the study. Stratified sampling technique were used to select the sample of 100 men. Self-structured questionnaire were used for data collect. Frequency and percentage were used to analysis the data. The result shows that majority 50(60.9%) of the respondents have moderate knowledge of VVF while 62(75.6%) of them shows negative attitude toward women living with VVF. Sociocultural factors are mostly responsible for the condition and sustain the affliction of VVF on its victims in the community. Base on these findings it was recommend that a large scale study can be done for assessing the knowledge and attitude of men toward women living with VVF for generalization. The descriptive study can be undertaken with control group for comparison.

Urinary Tract Infections (UTIS) are the most common type of healthcare-associated infection reported, among UTIS acquired in the hospital, approximately 75% are associatessd to urinary catheter. The aim of this study is to determine the attitude and practice of nurses toward prevention of Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infection (CAUTI). A cross sectional survey design was used to select the sample of 148 Nurses. The data were collected using self-structured questionnaire and analyzed using SPSS version 16.0. The result shows that most of the respondents are males (59.1%) within the age range of 31-40years (56.9%) and with working experience of >3years (70.1%). The attitude of the respondent toward CAUTI prevention was good; practice was very good with more than 80%, catheter care was very good also with 84.7% agree that closed drainage system will prevent CAUTI. In conclusion the respondents shows good attitude and practice toward prevention of CAUTI.

Background: Mid-day meal programme (MMP) is a school lunch programme provided by government of India at no cost, its components use in the clinical settings are well defined, the present study aims at defining the people's knowledge regarding MMP. Objectives: To evaluate the knowledge regarding MMP among people of Pakbara, to find the association between the level of regarding MMP among the people with their sociodemographic variables. Method: A study was used to evaluate knowledge regarding MMP among people of Pakbara, Uttar Pradesh. Data was collected from 80 samples using non probability sampling technique by structured questionnaires. The collected data was analysed using descriptive and inferential statistics and presents in the form of tables and figures. Result: 1.2% people have good knowledge, 71.2% have average knowledge while 27.5% have poor knowledge. Conclusion:There was no statistically significant association between sociodemographic variables of the respondents with their level of knowledge.