ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

All praise and thanks for Almighty ALLAH who is entire source of knowledge
and wisdom delivered to mankind. After ALLAH all praise and thanks are for his
dearest prophet Hazrat Muhammad (PBUH) for source of knowledge and
guidance.
Our heartiest thanks to Prof. Dr. Shahina manzoor head of community medicine
department SIMS Lahore, for her kind hearted supervision and helping hand for
the arrangements of the data collection trips.
We also wish to avail this opportunity to thank Dr. Muhammad Shahid Iqbal ,
head of department of infectious diseases, Institute of Public Health Lahore, for
his sincere advice which proved beneficial. He guided us at each step.
Our special thanks to the people of Jia Bagga for facilitating us in collection of
data without which the research could not have been possible.
We are also thankful to all the faculty of community medicine for guiding us
throughout our work.