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Publication Abortion legalized: Challenges ahead(Kathmandu University, 2007) Singh, M; Jha, RObjective: To see whether advocacy for abortion law and comprehensive abortion care (CAC) sites after legalization of abortion in Nepal is adequate among educated people (above school leaving certificate). Method: 150 participants were assigned randomly who agreed to be in the survey and were given structured questionnaires to find out their perception of abortion and CAC sites. Result: Majority know abortion is legalized and majority have positive attitude about legalization of abortion, however majority are not aware of abortion service in CAC sites and none knew the cost of abortion service Conclusion: Proper and adequate advocacy of the new abortion law and CAC service is essential. Key words: Abortion law, CAC site, AdvocacyPublication Study of effusion cytology in patients with simultaneous malignancy and ascites(Kathmandu University, 2006) Jha, R; Shrestha, HG; Sayami, G; Pradhan, SBObjective: To evaluate sensitivity of effusion cytology in detecting malignancy Materials and methods: Effusion cytology was studied from 37 malignancy associated and 28 non malignancy associated ascitic fluid samples. Results: Out of 65 cases, 44 (67.7%) effusions were reported negative, 15 (23.1%) were positive and 6 (9.2%) were suspicious for malignancy. Thus total 21 effusions (32.3%) were tumour cell positive. All 21 (100%) were true positive, none (0%) was false positive, 28 (63.6%) were true negative and 16 (36.4%) were false negative. Thus ascitic fluid cytology had sensitivity of 56.7% and specificity of 100%. Predictive value of positive test and negative test was 100% and 63.6% respectively. Stomach was the most common primary site of malignancy associated with ascites (11 /37 i.e. 29.7%) where as adenocarcinoma was the most common type of malignancy (11/15 i.e.73.3%) in ascitic fluid cytology. Conclusion: Ascitic fluid cytology is a simple and useful procedure with sensitivity of 56.7% and should be routinely requested. Key words: Ascitic fluid, Effusion cytology