The objective of this study was to determine the knowledge, behavior and perception of self-medication practice among the students of Pharmaceutical sciences from different private and public Universities of Bangladesh. The study showed that each and every respondent (n=474) (100%) had knowledge about self-medication. The most common indications for self medication were diarrhea (95.15%), fever (94.30%), headache (76.16%), cough (70.04%), gastric pain (65.82%), allergy (52.32%), vomiting (45.78%), vitamin deficiency (45.57%), stomachache (40.51%), constipation (37.13%), insomnia (33.97%), and skin diseases (29.11%). The major reasons for self medication were non-serious illness (87.55%), emergency use (79.96%), quick relief (85.86%), previous experience (83.97%), and unavailability of doctors (89.87%), advice from the family members / friends (51.90%), and cost-effectiveness (41.35%). The result showed that self medication was done mainly by analgesics (65.12%), the drugs acting on GIT (62.14%), cough suppressants (38.15%), antibiotics (22.86%), antihistamines (25.67%), and vitamins (25.81%).

We investigated the knowledge and perception about HIV/AIDS among the University students of Dhaka city in Bangladesh. A total number of 162 respondents participated in the study. Data were collected prospectively from different public and private Universities of Dhaka city in Bangladesh. The study showed that every respondent heard about HIV/AIDS and their main source of knowledge about HIV/AIDS was from media (72%). Among the respondents, 64% regularly donated blood and few of them (38%) were careful during blood donation. 95% of the respondents (who were drug abusers) did not share injections or needles for taking drugs of abuse. 97% of the respondents did not exchanged sex for drugs or money; however, 25% had physical relation with their sex partners and among them, only 24% used condoms while 57% knew about the use of condom. Only 27% of the respondents knew about HIV test centers. 90% thought that HIV/AIDS education will increase awareness about HIV/AIDS. 35% of the respondents were familiar with condom vendor machines and 28% of the respondents did not support for condom vendor machines to be installed in public places in Bangladesh.

Pharmacogenetics is generally regarded as the study of genetic variation that gives rise to different responses to drugs. It may be possible to predict therapeutic failures or severe adverse drug reactions in individual patients by testing for important DNA sequence variations or polymorphisms in key drug-metabolizing enzymes, receptors, transporters, etc. In this book, we characterized methods for genotyping CYP3A4*2, CYP3A4*4, CYP3A4*5, CYP3A4*6, and CYP3A4*10 alleles among Bangladeshi population in 70 healthy adult unrelated volunteers. Cytochrome P450 3A (CYP3A) subfamily is responsible for the metabolism of more than 60% drugs used by the human including clinically important drugs like nifedipine, cyclosporine, erythromycin, midazolam, triazolam, digitoxin, lidocaine, and quinine etc. Venous blood samples were collected from 70 healthy Bangladeshi volunteers. Genomic DNA was extracted from these blood samples and PCR-RFLP analysis was employed to genotype important alleles of CYP3A4. CYP3A4*2, CYP3A4*4, CYP3A4*5, CYP3A4*6, and CYP3A4*10 alleles were found to be absent in Bangladeshi population, which are common in other ethnic groups