Gender Based Violence in India: A Never-ending Phenomenon

Religion, customs, age-old prejudices, etc. have put Indian women in a subservient and exploitable position in many domains of life. Low rates of participation in education, lack of economic independence, value biases operating against them, etc., have resulted in the women being dependent on men folk and other institutions of authority like the family, neighborhood and the society. They are usually ignorant of their rights and even if they are not, they do not have easy access to justice. The issues related to women are being raised and discussed in various fora, in the recent times. Of these, ‘violence against women’ is gaining more and more support and recognition, the world over. But despite the enactment of laws, formulation of reformative legal processes, provision of legal aid to the needy, extensive use of the provision of Public Interest Litigation, conduct of Family Courts, Women/Family counseling centers etc., women in India have a long way to go in concretizing their Constitutional Goals into reality

Intimate Partner Violence at the Scene: Incident Characteristics and Implications for Public Health Surveillance

Using data that, to our knowledge, have not been used before for this purpose, we examined 9,231 opposite-sex intimate partner violence calls for law enforcement assistance recorded in the Compstat system of a large U.S. city. Although women were the predominant victims, injuries were documented more often for men. Only about 1% of incidents were considered to be a restraining order violation although many orders were active in the city at the time. The data appeared to be of good quality and just a few changes in recording procedures would increase Compstat’s usefulness for public health in U.S. cities

Efficacy of prophylactic use of tranexamic acid in reduction of blood loss in benign hysterectomy: a randomised controlled trial

Background: Aim of current study was to determine the efficacy of tranexamic acid in the reduction of blood loss during hysterectomy for benign indications.Methods: This is a randomized controlled trial in a tertiary care teaching hospital in Pondicherry. The study population was 108. Participants were allocated into 2 groups: Group A (N=54) and group B (N=54) based on computer generated random numbers. Group A (N=54) comprised of participants undergoing hysterectomy with prophylactic intravenous tranexamic acid (1 gram in 100 ml of 0.9% normal saline) which was further subdivided into A1 (N=27) and A2 (N=27) undergoing abdominal and vaginal hysterectomy respectively. Group B: comprised of participants undergoing hysterectomy without tranexamic acid, further subdivided into B1 (N=27) and B2 (N=27) undergoing abdominal and vaginal hysterectomy respectively. The mean blood loss during the intraoperative and post-operative periods was calculated and compared between the groups.Results: Participants in Group A who received prophylactic tranexamic acid were found to have less blood loss compared to the control population in Group B. The difference between the means was statistically significant.Conclusions: We concluded that tranexamic acid should be considered as prophylactic treatment for hysterectomy to reduce the risk of substantial blood loss and the need for blood transfusion and early recovery.