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Sufia Khatun wears a green sari around her thin 76-year-old frame. Round gold-rimmed glasses perch on her wizened face. When she smiles, she reveals teeth stained brown …
The World Health Organisation recommends that babies should be fed exclusively on breast milk for the first six months of life, and that mothers should …
An oral vaccine has reduced cases of severe cholera by nearly 40 per cent in a trial in Bangladeshi slums, suggesting the shot could be used to help endemic countries …
A cheap, oral vaccine provided “significant” protection against cholera in a real-life trial in Bangladesh, where the disease kills thousands every year, scientists reported …
An inexpensive, little-known cholera vaccine appears to work so well that it can protect entire communities and perhaps head off explosive epidemics …
O.R.S. refers to oral rehydration solution — a simple but life-saving beverage of water, salt and sugar formulated in the late 1960s by American and Bengali doctors and researchers working in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. Unlike saline intravenous drips to treat severe dehydration from diarrhea, O.R.S. was inexpensive, did not require special, sterile equipment and could be made at home. The potential of O.R.S. in poor countries was enormous.
A solution of sugar, salts and water, many of which can be found in a kitchen cupboard, can be all it takes to save a child's life - and it has saved an estimated 50 million people. But finding the right balance was crucial - and Dr Norbert Hirschhorn played a key part.
Wearing sandals and draped in a dark-blue sari, Aparajita Chakraborty glides into the cluster of hilltop homes with the self-assurance of someone who has long been making house calls ...
How the invention of a simple rehydration therapy has saved millions of lives.
In 1968, The Lancet published the results of a modest trial of what is now regarded as among the most important medical advances of the twentieth century. It wasn’t a new drug or vaccine or operation. It was basically a solution of sugar, salt, and water that you could make in your kitchen. The researchers gave the solution to victims of a cholera outbreak in Dhaka, the capital of what is now Bangladesh, and the results were striking.
EVEN in rich countries childbirth is not a tidy affair. On an earthen floor in a dimly lit home in Bangladesh it can be a killer. Bangladesh has nevertheless reduced maternal deaths
Cholera is an intestinal infection that's rare in the United States currently. But in the developing world it's a serious problem, with 3 to 5 million cases every year worldwide, according to the World Health Organization. The disease brings on diarrhea, which can kill a person if he or she is not properly hydrated. A tremendous advance in hydration was invented by David Nalin, along with his colleague Richard Cash.
Cholera is on the rise around the world. Last year, according to Unicef, West and Central Africa had “one of the worst ever” cholera outbreaks …
Ms. Gates, of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, recently returned from a three-day trip to Bangladesh ...
Ms. Gates, of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, recently returned from a three-day trip to Bangladesh. She, along with Nick, agreed to answer readers’ questions about development issues focusing on that part of the world. Here is the third of three installments.
In Bangladesh, strong cultural and traditional ties deter women from giving birth in health centres and hospitals. Babies are dying unnecessarily in Matlab …
Mothers in Bangladesh are 20 times more likely to die in childbirth than in the United States.In Matlab district, in south-eastern Bangladesh …
Cholera, the silent killer, plagues Dhaka regularly, but the local hospital is pioneering a preventative approach which could bring hope to millions …
Anita Ashfaqunnesa skips over a ditch oozing with raw sewage, her spotless white shawl trailing behind her like a superhero's cape …
The only thing Dhaka doesn't lack is people. With 13 million residents and counting, it is a fast-growing megacity in the world's most densely populated large country. New arrivals squeeze into already overflowing slums, or squat on wasteland with zero infrastructure. "Wherever there is human misery you will find cholera," says Dr. Mark Pietroni, Medical Director of the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B) in Dhaka, which is implementing the vaccine project with the Bangladesh government. "It thrives on malnutrition, overcrowding and poor hygiene."