Jeffrey V. Lazarus, Diana Romero, Christopher J. Kopka, Salim S. Abdool Karim et al.
Abstract Despite notable scientific and medical advances, broader political, socioeconomic and behavioural factors continue to undercut the response to the COVID-19 pandemic 1,2 . Here we convened, as part of this Delphi study, a diverse, multidisciplinary panel of 386 academic, health, non-governme...
Debendra Nath Roy, Mohitosh Biswas, Md. Ekramul Islam, Md. Shah Azam
BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Although vaccines are considered the most effective and fundamental therapeutic tools for consistently preventing the COVID-19 disease, worldwide vaccine hesitancy has become a widespread public health issue for successful immunization. The aim of this review was to identify an ...
Md. Saiful Islam, Abu Bakkar Siddique, Rejina Akter, Rafia Tasnim et al.
BACKGROUND: Several vaccines have been approved for use against coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and distributed globally in different regions. However, general community knowledge, attitudes and perceptions towards COVID-19 vaccinations are poorly understood. Thus, the study aimed to investigate comm...
Abram L. Wagner, Nina B. Masters, Gretchen J. Domek, Joseph L. Mathew et al.
Vaccine hesitancy is a continuum of behaviors ranging from delay in receipt to vaccination refusal. Prior studies have typically focused on high-income countries, where vaccine hesitancy is particularly prevalent in more affluent groups, but the relationship between socioeconomic status and vaccine ...
Michael Koenig, Mian Bazle Hossain, Maxine Whittaker
Efforts to develop quantitative indicators of quality of care for family planning services, and to evaluate its role in contraceptive behavior, remain at an early stage. The present study, based upon an analysis of prospective data from a sample of 7,800 reproductive-aged rural Bangladeshi women, pr...
Heidi W. Reynolds, Emelita L. Wong, H. Tucker
CONTEXT: Because of high levels of early childbearing in developing countries, pregnancy and childbirth are the leading causes of death among women aged 15-19. Use of skilled antenatal and delivery care improves maternal outcomes through the prevention, management and treatment of obstetric complica...
Holly Seale, C. Dyer, Ikram Abdi, Kazi Mizanur Rahman et al.
BACKGROUND: During an evolving outbreak or pandemic, non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) including physical distancing, isolation, and mask use may flatten the peak in communities. However, these strategies rely on community understanding and motivation to engage to ensure appropriate compliance...
Mohammad Bellal Hossain, Md. Zakiul Alam, Md. Syful Islam, Shafayat Sultan et al.
This study aimed to determine the prevalence and investigate the constellations of psychological determinants of the COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among the Bangladeshi adult population utilizing the health belief model-HBM (perceived susceptibility to and severity of COVID-19, perceived benefits of an...
Mosiur Rahman, Sarker Obaida-Nasrin
OBJECTIVE: This article establishes the hypothesis that predisposing, enabling and household needs influence the complete vaccination status of children. MATERIAL AND METHODS: Data from the 2004 Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey (N= 3530) was used. The data was analyzed using descriptive and ...
Kazi Abdul Mannan, Khandaker Mursheda Farhana
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to ravage the world, with the United States being highly affected. A vaccine provides the best hope for a permanent solution to controlling the pandemic. Several coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccines are currently in human trials. However, to be effective, a vaccine...
Anna Pearce, Catherine Law, David Elliman, Tim Cole et al.
OBJECTIVES: To estimate uptake of the combined measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine (MMR) and single antigen vaccines and explore factors associated with uptake and reasons for not using MMR. DESIGN: Nationally representative cohort study. SETTING: Children born in the UK, 2000-2. PARTICIPANTS: 14,57...
J. D. Clemens, Jeffrey R. Harris, David A. Sack, J. Chakraborty et al.
We assessed the protective efficacy (PE) of three doses of B subunit-killed whole cell (BS-WC) and killed whole cell-only (WC) oral cholera vaccines in a randomized, double-blind trial among 62,285 children and women residing in rural Bangladesh. After one complete year of surveillance, 110 cases of...
Eunice Twumwaa Tagoe, Nurnabi Sheikh, Alec Morton, Justice Nonvignon et al.
The development of COVID-19 vaccines does not imply the end of the global pandemic as now countries have to purchase enough COVID-19 vaccine doses and work towards their successful rollout. Vaccination across the world has progressed slowly in all, but a few high-income countries (HICs) as governmen...
Md. Jasim Uddin, Md Shamsuzzaman, Lily Horng, Alain Labrique et al.
In Bangladesh, full vaccination rates among children living in rural hard-to-reach areas and urban streets are low. We conducted a quasi-experimental pre-post study of a 12-month mobile phone intervention to improve vaccination among 0–11 months old children in rural hard-to-reach and urban street d...
A. Louis Bourgeois, Thomas F. Wierzba, Richard I. Walker
Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) is one of the most common bacterial causes of diarrhea-associated morbidity and mortality, particularly among infants and young children in developing countries. Still, the true impact on child and traveler health is likely underestimated. There are currently ...