Executive summary: The epidemic in Nepal is driven by injecting drug use and sexual transmission. There are numerous social, economical and cultural factors that drive the injecting and sexual behaviours among various ...

Background: In Nepal, traditional healing practices play a strong role in maintaining psychological and physical well being of the majority of rural people who do not have access of satisfactory modern health services. ...

Background: Since 2009, PSI/Nepal has been implementing the Women’s Health Project (WHP) to improve the reproductive health of women, with several goals, including: to increase contraceptive prevalence rate, to decrease ...

Introduction Pelvic organ prolapse is the widespread chronic problem among women in Nepal; particularly among adult and old women of hilly areas. There are 600,000 diagnosed cases of symptomatic ...

Background: In remote areas of the Nepal, where poverty prevails, essential medicines are out of reach for one third of the population. People who do not have some access to such medicines need to pay higher prices compared ...

Background: The prevalence of vitamin D deficiency and insufficiency is high worldwide and South Asia is not exception despite of the plenty of sunshine. Additionally, during recent years the role of vitamin D as a ...