May 2012

The control of Nigerian women over their sexuality in an era of HIV/AIDS: A study of women in Edo State in Nigeria

  HIV/AIDS remains the world’s most menacing disease of the 20th and 21st century. Two-thirds of an estimated 40.3 affected people world-wide live in sub-Saharan Africa and 77% of these are women. In Nigeria, 57% of people living with HIV/AIDS are, according to a 2005 estimate, women. The increasing vulnerability of women/girls to HIV/AIDS has been attributed to many factors. Among these, women’s...

Author(s):   Festus Iyayi, R. Osaro Igbinomwanhia, Anthonia Bardi and Omole O. Iyayi        

May 2012

Role of HOPCOMS in socio-economic change of farmer members in Mysore City

  Horticulture plays an important role in the economic development of country and if contribute to 29.5% of over agricultural GDP from 8.5% of area and 10% of total agricultural exports. Fruits and vegetables are important components of the diet as they contribute the much needed vitamins, minerals, fibers and other micro nutrients to the consuming Indian population. It provides food for our people and raw...

Author(s):   H. M. Chandrashekar