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Improving the utilization of health care services through community empowerment and participatory monitoring in a rural area of Bangladesh
Short Title Health services use and community empowerment
Protocol No 200602
Status Completed
Keywords COMMUNITY MOBILIZATION, PARTICIPATORY IMPACT MONITORING, UTILIZATION OF HEALTH FACILITIES.
Division Public Health Sciences
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PI Name Rumesa R. Aziz
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The effect of socio-economic status and care-seeking behaviour by the caretakers of children hospitalised with diarrhoea complicated by pneumonia.
Short Title Factors that influence pneumonia and care seeking
Protocol No 2006019
Status Completed
Keywords CHILD HEALTH, SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS, PNEUMONIA, MALNUTRITION, CARE SEEKING BEHAVIOUR
Division Clinical Sciences
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PI Name Swapan Kumar Roy
Collaborating Institutes (226) AMC, Meibergdreef 1011 AX Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Exploratory study to evaluate the effect of L-isoleucine supplemented oral rehydration solution in the treatment of acute diarrhoea in children and in inducing innate immunity.
Short Title Isoleucine added ORS in children with diarrhoea
Protocol No 2006018
Status Completed
Keywords DIARRHOEA; L-ISOLEUCINE; CHILDREN; ORS; ANTIBACTERIAL PEPTIDE
Division Clinical Sciences
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PI Name Rubhana Raqib;Md. Nur Haque Alam
Collaborating Institutes (064) Karolinska Institute, Stockholm
(140) University Hospital, Liestal
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Extent and consequence of catastrophic cost for caesarean section delivery among poor households
Short Title Catastrophic cost for CS
Protocol No 2006017
Status Completed
Keywords CATASTROPHIC EXPENDITURE, CAESAREAN DELIVERY
Division Public Health Sciences
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PI Name Malay Kanti Mridha
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Is there a genetic basis for xerophthalmia?
Short Title VITAMIN A DEFICIENCY
Protocol No 2006016
Status Completed
Keywords VITAMIN A DEFICIENCY, GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY, XEROPHTHALMIA
Division Nutrition and Food Security
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PI Name Kazi Mohammad Asif Jamil
Collaborating Institutes (144) University of California, Davis (UC DAVIS)
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Randomized, double blind placebo-controlled studies to evaluate the safety and tolerability of an orally-fed Escherichia coli (E. coli) phage in human volunteers (part I).
Short Title Safety and efficacy trial of E.coli phage
Protocol No 2006015
Status Completed
Keywords PHAGE THERAPY, ETEC DIARRHOEA, COLI PHAGE, CHILDREN
Division Nutrition and Food Security
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PI Name Md. Shafiqul Alam Sarker
Collaborating Institutes (174) Karolinska University Hospital, Huddinge
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Independent effects of vitamin A intake and vitamin A status on iron and zinc absorption from meals containing sweet potatoes with low and high beta-carotene content
Short Title Sweet potato trial on Bangladeshi women
Protocol No 2006014
Status Completed
Keywords VITAMIN A; IRON ABSORPTION; ZINC ABSORPTION; BIOEFFICACY; STABLE ISOTOPES
Division Clinical Sciences
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PI Name Kazi Mohammad Asif Jamil
Collaborating Institutes (144) University of California, Davis (UC DAVIS)
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Tuberculosis in rural and urban areas in Bangladesh
Short Title Tuberculosis in Bangladesh
Protocol No 2006011
Status Completed
Keywords TUBERCULOSIS, INFECTIOUS DISEASE, DOTS, MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE, EPIDEMIOLOGY, CARE SEEKING, BANGLADESH
Division Communicable Diseases
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PI Name Md. Khalequzzaman
Collaborating Institutes (014) BRAC
(061) Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (JHBSPH)
(090) National Tuberculosis Control Programme (NTP), Dhaka
(166) World Health Organization, Bangladesh
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Initiative for diagnostic and epidemiological assays for leprosy.
Short Title Initiative for diagnostic assays for leprosy
Protocol No 200601
Status Completed
Keywords DIAGNOSIS, LEPROSY
Division Communicable Diseases
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PI Name Sayera Banu
Collaborating Institutes (048) Institut Pasteur, Paris
(069) Leprosy Control Institue and Hospital, Dhaka
(070) London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM)
(228) University of Colorado, Boulder, USA
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Nutritional, immunological, and health status of elderly Bangladeshi.
Short Title Nutrition and immunity of Bangladeshi elderly.
Protocol No 2006008
Status Completed
Keywords ELDERLY, IMMUNITY, NUTRITION
Division Laboratory Sciences
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PI Name Firdausi Qadri;Tanvir Ahmed
Collaborating Institutes (129) Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston
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Effectiveness of a community-based responsive feeding program
Short Title Responsive feeding program
Protocol No 2006007
Status Completed
Keywords RESPONSIVE FEEDING, MALNUTRITION, FEEDING PRACTICES
Division Clinical Sciences
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PI Name Frances E Aboud
Collaborating Institutes (099) Plan International, Bangladesh
(225) Bangladesh University Institute of Education, Bangladesh
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Does counselling of abused women using primary-level health care promoters help the women?
Short Title Evaluation of counseling by paramedics
Protocol No 2006006
Status Completed
Keywords MENTAL HEALTH; PERSON-CENTERED COUNSELING; PARAMEDICS; VIOLENCE; RURAL WOMEN
Division Public Health Sciences
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PI Name Ruchira Tabassum Naved
Collaborating Institutes (162) Uppsala University
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Optimisation of oral rehydration solution and evaluation of the efficacy of benefiber containing modified oral rehydration solution in the treatment of severely malnourished children with watery diarrhoea

Short Title Modified ORS for severely malnourished children.
Protocol No 2006005
Status Completed
Keywords DIARRHOEA; SEVERE MALNUTRITION; BENEFIBER; INULIN; RESOMAL, MODIFIED ORS
Division Nutrition and Food Security
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PI Name Md. Nur Haque Alam
Collaborating Institutes (068) University Hospital, Basel
(140) University Hospital, Liestal
(175) Novartis Consumer Health, Bern
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Exploring the possibility of using intestinal mRNA levels of zinc transporter genes, and changes in their expression levels in response to zinc supplementation as a bio-marker for zinc status.
Short Title A novel bio-marker of zinc status.
Protocol No 2006004
Status Completed
Keywords ZINC, TRANSPORTER GENES, ZNT1, ZNT2, ZIP4, ENTEROCYTES
Division Vaccine Sciences
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PI Name Rubhana Raqib
Collaborating Institutes (144) University of California, Davis (UC DAVIS)
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Multicenter pre-evaluation study of the logistic feasibility of using the Step 1 LAMP assay to detect pulmonary tuberculosis in symptomatic adults.
Short Title LAMP test feasibility study
Protocol No 2006003
Status Completed
Keywords LAMP, FEASIBILITY TEST, PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS
Division Laboratory Sciences
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PI Name Rubhana Raqib
Collaborating Institutes (222) Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND)
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Epidemiology of human papillomavirus (HPV) infection among females in Bangladesh.
Short Title Epidemiology of Human Papillomavirus Infection
Protocol No 2006002
Status Completed
Keywords EPIDEMIOLOGY, HUMAN PAPILLOMAVIRUS, FEMALE
Division Laboratory Sciences
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PI Name Dipak Kumar Mitra
Collaborating Institutes (008) Bangabandhu Sk. Mujib Medical University and Hospital, Dhaka
(053) Institute of Epidemiology Disease Control and Research (IEDCR), Dhaka
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Evaluation of partner notification for sexually transmitted infections by service providers in Bangladesh.
Short Title Partner notification study
Protocol No 2006001
Status Completed
Keywords SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED INFECTIONS, PARTNER NOTIFICATION AND MANAGEMENT, CLIENT ORIENTED APPROACH, CLIENT-PROVIDER ORIENTED APPROACH
Division Public Health Sciences
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PI Name Peter Kim Streatfield
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Piloting of respondent driven sampling for integrated HIV and behavioural surveillance among males who have sex with males (MSM) in Dhaka.
Short Title HIV surveillance in MSM using RDS
Protocol No 2005042
Status Completed
Keywords MALES WHO HAVE SEX WITH MALES, RDS, SURVEILLANCE, HIV/AIDS
Division Laboratory Sciences
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PI Name Tasnim Azim
Collaborating Institutes (053) Institute of Epidemiology Disease Control and Research (IEDCR), Dhaka
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Causes of and health care seeking in relation to neonatal deaths in rural Bangladesh: The use of verbal autopsy
Short Title Causes of and care seeking neonatal deaths
Protocol No 2005041
Status Completed
Keywords VERBAL AUTOPSY, NEONATAL DEATH, BANGLADESH
Division Public Health Sciences
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PI Name Md. Hafizur Rahman Chowdhury
Collaborating Institutes (221) Curtin University of Technology, Australia
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Delivery of iron and zinc supplements: evaluation of interaction effect on biochemical and clinical outcomes.
Short Title Delivery of iron and zinc supplements
Protocol No 200504
Status Completed
Keywords IRON, ZINC, INTERACTION, SUPPLEMENT, CHILDREN, DIARRHEA, DELIVERY
Division Public Health Sciences
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PI Name Shams El Arifeen
Collaborating Institutes (061) Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (JHBSPH)
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