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Improved drinking water, sanitation and handwashing (WASH) interventions reduced child diarrhoea in rural Bangladesh, but contrary to expectations, did not impact child growth — indicates findings from new study by International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B) and US collaborators.
Despite having the expertise to keep cholera in check, the world is losing the battle to contain the disease, especially in regions where conflict persists. Countries like Bangladesh, which have vast experience confronting cholera and other waterborne illnesses, can play a leading role.
Scanning the brain in its early years helps understand how negative experiences early in life affect the brain
In 1996, Dr Mohammod Jobayer Chisti was working in the paediatric department of the Sylhet Medical College Hospital in Bangladesh. That evening he made a promise that he would do something to stop children dying from pneumonia.
Ann Paisley Chandler: Congratulations on icddr,b receiving the Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian Prize, the world’s largest humanitarian award. What does this award mean to you?
Meanwhile, donors and international agencies have largely turned away from dealing with the problem. UNICEF, the World Bank, and WHO do not have any major projects focused on arsenic mitigation, nor do bilateral donors from the United States or Europe. “It’s gone totally off the donor radar,” says Peter Kim Streatfield, an emeritus scientist with the International Center for Diarrheal Disease Research, Bangladesh, one of the country’s premier public health research institutions.
Some 40 million people — a quarter of the population — are exposed to arsenic-contaminated drinking water. Why are simple solutions not being applied?
Excessive and improper applications of insecticides and other agriculture chemicals in local fruit orchards may have triggered an outbreak of acute encephalitis syndrome (AES), a condition often associated with deadly inflammation of the brain, that killed 13 children in a rural Bangladesh community in 2012
An unprecedented study in Bangladesh could reveal how malnutrition, poor sanitation and other challenges make their mark on child development
In 2012, the London Declaration on Neglected Tropical Diseases signalled a bold new vision for international cooperation, in which networking and globalisation could underpin efforts in the global South to eradicate deadly diseases that disproportionately affect the poorest communities.
Climate change is driving an acute water crisis in coastal Bangladesh in which women are bearing most of the strain.
They call it Kamala cart. Even if the choice to paint Dhaka’s newest food vending carts kamala — which is Bengali for orange — was intended to placate the Dutch donor who supported their creation, the cheery paint now symbolizes something that hits much closer to home in Bangladesh’s capital city. That something is food safety.
Canada is a “bright and shining light of optimism” in a world that is challenging the concept of global citizenship in many ways, the executive director of one of the world’s leading global health research institutes said Tuesday.
Two hundred years ago, the first cholera pandemic emerged from these tiger-infested mangrove swamps. It began in 1817, after the British East India Company sent thousands of workers deep into the remote Sundarbans, part of the Ganges River Delta, to log the jungles and plant rice ...
In 1998, with no explanation or signal of danger, a fearsome disease took off in Malaysia. Pigs died in large numbers and then men slaughtering infected animals also fell ill.
A report on why rotavirus vaccine prevents only 43 percent of young children in Bangladesh from getting severe diarrhea, but in the United States and other high-income countries it prevents about 98 percent ...
A study conducted in neighbouring Bangladesh has shown that excessive growth of bacteria in the small intestine of children could be the reason for stunted growth …
Researchers from US and Bangladesh say that a possible factor of stunted growth is the bacteria in the small intestine. According to them, the excessive growth of bacteria damages …
