Browsing by Subject "India"

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    Acceptability of HPV vaccine implementation among parents in India.
    (Taylor & Francis, 2014) Paul, Proma; Tanner, Amanda E.; Gravitt, Patti E.; Vijayaraghavan, K.; Shah, Keerti V.; Zimet, Gregory D.; Department of Medicine, IU School of Medicine
    Due to high cervical cancer rates and limited research on human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine acceptability in India, the research team examined parental attitudes toward HPV vaccines. Thirty-six interviews with parents were conducted to assess sexually transmitted infection (STI)-related knowledge and HPV-specific vaccine awareness and acceptability. Despite limited knowledge, parents had positive views toward HPV vaccines. Common barriers included concerns about side effects, vaccine cost, and missing work to receive the vaccine. Parents were strongly influenced by health care providers' recommendations. Our findings suggest that addressing parental concerns, health worker training and polices, and efforts to minimize cost will be central to successful HPV vaccine implementation.
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    Access to Knowledge in India: New Research on Intellectual Property, Innovation and Development
    (Bloomsbury Academic, 2011) Subramanian, Ramesh; Shaver, Lea
    This is the third volume in our Access to Knowledge series. India is a $1 trillion economy which nevertheless struggles with a very high poverty rate and very low access to knowledge for almost seventy percent of its population which lives in rural areas. This volume features four parts on current issues facing intellectual property, development policy (especially rural development policy) and associated innovation, from the Indian perspective. Each chapter is authored by scholars taking an interdisciplinary approach and affiliated to Indian or American universities and Indian think-tanks. Each examines a policy area that significantly impacts access to knowledge. These include information and communications technology for development; the Indian digital divide; networking rural areas; copyright and comparative business models in music; free and open source software; patent reform and access to medicines; the role of the Indian government in promoting access to knowledge internationally and domestically.
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    Country Report 2018: India
    (2018) Dadrawala, Noshir
    Two or more individuals may form a trust or a nonprofit company, while seven or more members may form a society. Broadly speaking, a PO may be set up to provide services related to relief of poverty, education, medical relief, environment, preserving national monuments or any other object of general public utility. The registration process is somewhat demanding, requiring moderate time and resources. However, the governing body is consistent and apolitical; their activities are somewhat transparent, as they provide data and information to the public via their websites. There is, however, no requirement for them to do so.
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    Developing a Social Media Strategy for a Small Non-Profit Organization: More Conversation, Less Marketing
    (2017-11-17) Lawler, Audra J.; Hook, Sara Anne
    Right Sharing of World Resources (RSWR), based in Richmond, Indiana, is a successful microfinance organization that empowers marginalized women in Kenya, India and Sierra Leone. Although established in 1967, RSWR remains a small organization compared with other NGOs and has not had the time or expertise to update its website or to take advantage of the power of social media for outreach and public relations. The first project was to complete a total redesign of RSWR’s website as well as a new branding campaign. This project is to develop and implement a social media strategy that will allow RSWR to better communicate its message to its target audiences, such as donors, volunteers and the public at large. Building on the methodology used for the website redesign project, I interviewed key players and investigated social media best practices, specifically the social media approaches of small firms and non-profit organizations. Among my findings are that an organization should have a written policy and limit the number of people who can publish social media content. A social media strategy must be dynamic and there should be at least one person dedicated to content management. Content must be fresh, sincere and purposeful, never arbitrary or perfunctory and should be consistent with RSWR’s overall branding efforts and public persona. This same methodology for developing a social media strategy could be used by nearly any small entity that has to be very judicious in how it communicates through 21st century technology.
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    Gene therapy access: Global challenges, opportunities, and views from Brazil, South Africa, and India
    (Elsevier, 2022) Cornetta, Kenneth; Bonamino, Martín; Mahlangu, Johnny; Mingozzi, Federico; Rangarajan, Savita; Rao, Jayandharan; Medical and Molecular Genetics, School of Medicine
    Gene and cell therapies for a variety of life-limiting illnesses are under investigation, and a small number of commercial products have successfully obtained regulatory approval. The cost of treatment is high, and clinical studies evaluating safety and efficacy are performed predominately in high-income countries. We reviewed the current status of gene and cell therapies in low- and middle-income countries and highlighted the need and current barriers to access. The state of product development in Brazil, South Africa, and India is discussed, including lessons learned from American Society of Gene and Cell Therapy (ASGCT)-sponsored virtual symposia in each of these countries.
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    India. Digital for Good: A Global Study on Emerging Ways of Giving
    (Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, 2023-01) School of Philanthropy, Indiana University Lilly Family
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    Political competition, relative deprivation, and perceived threat: a research note on anti-Christian violence in India
    (2012) Bauman, Chad; Leech, Tamara G.J.
    A preliminary subnational statistical analysis of violence against Christians in contemporary India, this article suggests that whereas the data provide very little support for simple, demographic explanations of this violence, they do more robustly support theories emphasizing the relative status of ethnic and religious minorities (vis-à-vis majorities) and the perception, among Hindus, that Christians (and other minorities) represent a threat to their numerical, political and economic strength.
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    Political Tweets and Mainstream News Impact in India: A Mixed Methods Investigation into Political Outreach
    (ACM, 2018-06) Chakraborty, Sunandan; Chandra, Priyank; Pal, Joyojeet; Romero, Daniel M.; Human-Centered Computing, School of Informatics and Computing
    Citizens' perception of politicians and political issues is increasingly influenced by social media. However, little is known about the potential of second order effects of social media in parts of the world where the majority of voting citizens are not online. In this paper, we examine whether a politician can move to communicating through social media as their primary means of outreach, and still present their message to the mainstream population through traditional media. By studying of the use of Twitter by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi between 2009 and 2015, the second-most followed elected official in the world, we present evidence of the impact of social media on print news. We use computational text mining techniques to automatically identify print news reports that use Modi's tweets as a source, alongside manual qualitative coding of tweets to analyze the role of tweet themes in print news coverage. We conclude that while Modi's social media messaging does get coverage in the print news, it is his more "newsworthy" tweets, such as references to celebrities, other politicians, or major events such as holidays that have a greater likelihood of coverage.
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    Social support relationships for sexual minority women in Mumbai, India: a photo elicitation interview study
    (Taylor & Francis, 2017) Bowling, Jessamyn; Dodge, Brian; Banik, Swagata; Bartelt, Elizabeth; Rawat, Shruta; Guerra-Reyes, Lucia; Hensel, Devon J.; Herbenick, Debby; Anand, Vivek; Pediatrics, School of Medicine
    Little research exists on women who do not identify as heterosexual in India. Social support for sexual minority women may protect against the effects of discrimination. An examination of significant social relationships may point to both strengths and weaknesses in this support. We aimed to understand relationship prioritisation and communication patterns associated with the social support of sexual minority women in Mumbai. In partnership with the Humsafar Trust, India’s oldest and largest sexual and gender minority-advocacy organisation, we conducted photo-elicitation interviews with 18 sexual minority women, using participants’ photographs to prompt dialogue about their social support. Intimate partners were a source of dependable support and many of those without relationships were seeking them. Participants’ extended networks included friends and family as well as less formal relationships of social support. Participants mediated their communication with particular social network members, which involved filtering information sexual identity, romantic interests, and personal aspirations, among others. The diverse relationships that sexual minority women have in their social support networks may be used to guide programmes to improve health outcomes.
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    The silent tragic reality of Hidden Hunger, anaemia, and neural-tube defects (NTDs) in India
    (Elsevier, 2022-09-17) Antony, Aśok C.; Vora, Ravindra M.; Karmarkar, Santosh J.; Medicine, School of Medicine
    Hidden Hunger arising from nutritional iron-, folate-, and vitamin-B12-deficiencies is exceedingly common in India and has profound negative impacts on anaemia, on pregnancy, and on embryonic-foetal neurodevelopment in utero, which predisposes to NTDs and psychological-psychiatric manifestations in childhood. Whereas younger-to-middle-aged Indians fail to perform at maximum potential, the elderly are at risk for calamitous neurologic events. However, these micronutrient-deficiencies are eminently correctable through food-fortification. Therefore, the Indian Government can no longer afford the luxury of inaction by either denying or downplaying the gravity of this problem. What is critically needed from India's leaders is an urgent, clear-eyed reappraisal and act of anagnorisis—(an often startling self-recognition and discovery of a profoundly serious error and tragic flaw)—in failing to confront this problem for decades. Only when closely followed by a metanoia—(a transformative change of heart that triggers remedial action)—can they help India avoid a catastrophic tryst with destiny.