A5027875035- Global Maternal and Child Health
- Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
- Child Nutrition and Water Access
- Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
- Diabetes, Cardiovascular Risks, and Lipoproteins
- Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences
- Global Health Care Issues
- Global Health and Epidemiology
- Heavy metals in environment
- Diabetes and associated disorders
- Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment
- Adipokines, Inflammation, and Metabolic Diseases
- Healthcare Systems and Reforms
- Pregnancy and preeclampsia studies
- Heavy Metal Exposure and Toxicity
- Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology
- Hepatitis B Virus Studies
- Cervical Cancer and HPV Research
- COVID-19 epidemiological studies
- Leprosy Research and Treatment
- Mercury impact and mitigation studies
- Liver Disease and Transplantation
- Health disparities and outcomes
- Maternal and fetal healthcare
- Hepatitis Viruses Studies and Epidemiology
International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research
2016-2025
Bangladesh Institute of Research and Rehabilitation for Diabetes Endocrine and Metabolic Disorders
1970-2024
University of Dhaka
2023
Dhaka Medical College and Hospital
2023
Northampton General Hospital
2017
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2015
Bangladesh Institute of ICT in Development
2015
United Nations Children's Fund
2013
Biomedical Research Foundation
2013
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
2007
Despite a notable decline in recent decades, maternal mortality Bangladesh remains high. A thorough understanding of causes deaths is essential for effective policy and programme planning. Here we report the current level major Bangladesh, focusing on care-seeking practices, timing, place deaths.We analysed data from 2016 Maternal Mortality Health Care Survey (BMMS), conducted with nationally representative sample 298 284 households. We adapted World Organization's 2014 verbal autopsy (VA)...
The objective of this study was to assess the level knowledge cervical cancer among Bangladeshi women and their willingness receive human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine. A population-based, cross-sectional survey conducted from July December 2011 in one urban rural area Bangladesh. total 2037 ever-married women, aged 14 64 years, were interviewed using a structured questionnaire. Data on socio-demographic characteristics collected. Willingness HPV vaccine assessed. Univariate analyses...
Abstract Climate change affects almost all aspects of human life, including health. This is particularly true in densely populated and low lying deltas such as Bangladesh. However, the climate‐health nexus a relatively poorly explored domain research, which cause for concern given country's intrinsic vulnerability to climatic impacts. The impact climate on health well‐being can be manifested through different pathways categorized being direct or indirect, mediated complex biophysical social...
Introduction Hepatitis E virus (HEV) is a leading cause of acute viral hepatitis in the developing world and public health problem, particular among pregnant women, where it may lead to severe or fatal complications. A recombinant HEV vaccine, 239 (Hecolin; Xiamen Innovax Biotech, Xiamen, China), licensed China, but WHO calls for further studies evaluate safety immunogenicity this vaccine vulnerable populations, protection pregnancy. We are therefore conducting phase IV trial assess...
Albendazole, a broad spectrum anthelmintic recently shown to be active in vitro against Giardia duodenalis, was given at 4 different dosages and compared with metronidazole the treatment of children Bangladesh infected Giardia. Three stools were collected over 10 d after examined microscopically. Albendazole found effective: single doses either 600 mg (n = 103) or 800 114) successfully treated 62% 75% infections, respectively; 400 once day for 3 116) 5 115) 81% 95% all respectively. daily as...
Leprosy is remaining prevalent in the poorest areas of world. Intensive control programmes with multidrug therapy (MDT) reduced number registered cases these areas, but transmission Mycobacterium leprae continues most endemic countries. Socio-economic circumstances are considered to be a major determinant, uncertainty exists regarding association between leprosy and poverty. We assessed different socio-economic factors risk acquiring clinical signs leprosy.We performed case-control study two...
Bangladesh, (icddr,b, former Pakistan SEATO Cholera Research Laboratory) set up a field diarrhoea hospital in Matlab December 1963 for evaluating acceptability, safety and efficacy of cholera vaccines, including oral rehydration therapy, studying the epidemiology, prevention treatment diarrhoeal diseases other public health interventions.The evaluation studies required accurate count population at risk computing rates ratios.Matlab HDSS (former DSS till 1999) was established May 1966...
Assessing the quality of antenatal care (ANC) is imperative for improving provisions during pregnancy to ensure health mother and baby. In Bangladesh, there a dearth research on ANC using nationally representative data understand its levels determinants. Thus, current study aimed assess identify sociodemographic factors associated with usage services in Bangladesh.Secondary analysis was conducted last two Bangladesh Demographic Health Surveys (BDHSs) from 2014 2017-18. A total 8,277...
Background There has been no population-based study on human papillomavirus (HPV) prevalence or its genotypes in Bangladesh; a country eligible for GAVI funding HPV vaccine. Methods We used baseline survey data of prospective cohort that was conducted one urban and rural area Bangladesh. A total 997 905 married women, aged 13 to 64 years, were enrolled the during July-December, 2011. Information collected socio-demographic characteristics potential risk factors infection followed by...
This cross-sectional study was carried out to estimate the prevalence of type 2 diabetes mellitus and itsâ risk factors in an urbanizing rural community Bangladesh. Two villages were randomly selected from areas Gazipur district total 975 subjects (>20 years), included following simple random procedure. Capillary blood glucose levels, fasting (FBG) levels 2-hour after 75 g oral load (OGTT) measured. Height, weight, waist hip circumferences pressure The population lean with mean body...
Journal Article Albendazole and infections with Ascaris lumbricoides Trichuris trichiura in children Bangladesh Get access Andrew Hall, Hall ∗ International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, P.O. Box 128, Dhaka 1000, ∗Current address correspondence: Department of Biology, Imperial College, Prince Consort Road, London, SW7 2BB, UK. Search other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Quamrun Nahar Transactions The Royal Society Tropical Medicine...
Male involvement in maternal and child health is recognised as a valuable strategy to improve care-seeking uptake of optimal home care practices for women children low- middle-income settings. However, the specific mechanisms by which involving men can lead observed behaviour change are not well substantiated. A qualitative study conducted explore men's women's experiences male interventions Tanzania Zimbabwe found that, some men, had fostered more loving partner relationships. Both female...
Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights (SRHR) aim to enhance quality of life through safe sexual experiences, reproductive autonomy, protection against gender-based violence. However, existing SRHR research interventions in low- middle-income countries like Bangladesh predominantly focus on women, often understating men neglecting the nuanced contextual issues faced by married couples. This study contributes filling this gap examining dynamics among newlyweds rural poor urban areas...
TNF-α and IL-6 have been shown to be associated with insulin resistance in T2 DM subjects. However, their causal role the development of diabetes is still unsettled. In present study 106 prediabetic subjects (17 IFG, 60 IGT, 29 IFG-IGT) were studied along age- BMI-matched 56 healthy controls. Insulin was measured by ELISA; chemiluminescence-based EIA. Fasting serum fasting levels not significantly different among groups. a significant association (p < 0.013) (IGR) state on binary logistic...
Children living on the streets are an underprivileged population of Bangladesh and likely to be more vulnerable STIs/HIV for their day-to-day risky behaviours lifestyles. This study assessed vulnerability Bangladeshi street-children HIV/AIDS using qualitative participatory methods. ethnographic participatory, was conducted during February 2010– December 2011 among children aged 5–12 years, who live and/or work in Dhaka, capital city Bangladesh. Data were collected three phases: (a) social...
Socioeconomic and culturally defined social contact patterns are expected to be an important determinant in the continuing transmission of Mycobacterium leprae leprosy-endemic areas. In a case-control study two districts Bangladesh, we assessed association between risk acquiring clinical leprosy. Social contacts 90 recently diagnosed patients were compared those 199 controls. Leprosy was associated with more intensive pattern home [odds ratio (OR) 1·09, 95% confidence interval (CI)...
Using Matlab demographic surveillance data (HDSS), we assess if misreporting of age at marriage could be contributing to the apparent persistence early in Bangladesh. A random sample 1766 women aged 15–29 born HDSS area was selected. Almost two-thirds misreported their marriage, but not randomly—56 percent under-reported while seven over-reported first marriage.Among currently married group 20–24, reported mean 16.8 years, comparable 16.6 years given by Bangladesh Demographic and Health...
Air pollution, one of the biggest environmental risks to health, is a severe problem in Bangladesh. The Lancet "Commission on Pollution and Health" emphasized importance research health effects ambient air pollution. This study explored negative impacts pollution pregnancy outcomes - preterm births (PTB) low birth weight (LBW). assessed quality terms Quality Index (AQI) quantified association with LBW PTB. Pregnancy outcome data were collected from Maternal Child Health Training Institute...