Md Saiful Islam, Abu-Hena Mostofa Kamal, Alamgir Kabir, Dorothy L. Southern et al.
INTRODUCTION: Rumors and conspiracy theories, can contribute to vaccine hesitancy. Monitoring online data related to COVID-19 vaccine candidates can track vaccine misinformation in real-time and assist in negating its impact. This study aimed to examine COVID-19 vaccine rumors and conspiracy theorie...
David M. Reimers, Stephan Thernstrom
Groups and Definitions Acadians Marietta M. LeBreton Afghans David C. Champagne Africans Afro-Americans Thomas C. Holt Albanians Aleuts Dorothy M. Jones Alsatians Frederick C. Luebke American Indians Edward H. Spicer Amish John A. Hostetler Anglo-American Anglo-Saxon Appalachians Dwight Billings and...
Arielle Tozier de la Poterie, Eduardo Castro, Hafizur Rahaman, Dorothy Heinrich et al.
Anticipatory action (AA) is a growing area of climate and disaster risk management that emphasizes the use of climate services and risk analyses to predict where crises might strike and enable action to prevent or mitigate impacts before disasters occur. Based on interviews with stakeholders involve...
Sharifa Nasreen, Eduardo Azziz‐Baumgartner, Emily S. Gurley, Peter J. Winch et al.
Objectives To identify existing respiratory hygiene risk practices, and guide the development of interventions for improving respiratory hygiene. Methods We selected a convenience sample of 80 households and 20 schools in two densely populated communities in Bangladesh, one urban and one rural. We o...
Farhana Sultana, Fosiul Alam Nizame, Dorothy L. Southern, Leanne Unicomb et al.
Schools convene many people together for a prolonged time, facilitating spread of respiratory pathogens and amplifying epidemics. Crowded Bangladeshi schools lack the infrastructure to support optimal cough etiquette behaviors. We collected formative data on current practices from four elementary sc...
Fosiul Alam Nizame, Sharifa Nasreen, Leanne Unicomb, Dorothy L. Southern et al.
BACKGROUND: Respiratory infections are the leading cause of childhood deaths in Bangladesh. Promoting respiratory hygiene may reduce infection transmission. This formative research explored community perceptions about respiratory infections. METHODS: We conducted 34 in-depth interviews and 16 focus ...
Emily S. Gurley, Md Saiful Islam, Nazmun Nahar, Rebeca Sultana et al.
Family caregivers are at risk for acquiring Nipah virus from patients in Bangladesh through exposure to patients' respiratory secretions. We conducted a formative study to assess the acceptability and feasibility of behaviour change messages to reduce this exposure in a hospital in Bangladesh. We de...
Farhana Sultana, Leanne Unicomb, Mahbubur Rahman, Shahjahan Ali et al.
Schoolchildren frequently transmit respiratory and gastrointestinal infections because of dense person-to-person contact in schools. We piloted a low-cost handwashing intervention among elementary schoolchildren in Bangladesh. We trained teachers to lead behavior change communication sessions using ...
Beverley Naidoo
Braving the Dark in Writing for Young People Beverley Naidoo (bio) Click for larger view View full resolution In early 1980s Britain, it took over two years to find a publisher for my first children’s book, Journey to Jo’burg. Some turned it down because they believed that the journey of two black S...
Leland M. Griffin, Marie Hochmuth, Dallas C. Dickey, Earl W. Wiley et al.
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