Alain Labrique, Shegufta Shefa Sikder, Lisa J. Krain, Keith P. West et al.
Hepatitis E virus (HEV) is a major cause of illness and of death in the developing world and disproportionate cause of deaths among pregnant women. Although HEV vaccine trials, including trials conducted in populations in southern Asia, have shown candidate vaccines to be effective and well-tolerate...
Shegufta Shefa Sikder, Alain Labrique, Abu Ahmed Shamim, Hasmot Ali et al.
BACKGROUND: In rural Bangladesh, more than 75% of all births occur at home in the absence of skilled birth attendants. Population-based data are lacking on the burden and risk factors for obstetric complications in settings with low rates of institutional delivery. We sought to describe the prevalen...
Alamgir Kabir, Md Mahbubur Rashid, Kamal Hossain, Arifuzzaman Khan et al.
BACKGROUND: The burden of maternal undernutrition and low birth weight (LBW) incurs enormous economic costs due to their adverse consequences. Women's empowerment is believed to be one of the key factors for attaining maternal and child health and nutritional goals. Our objective was to investigate ...
Shegufta Shefa Sikder, Alain Labrique, Ian M. Craig, Md. Abdul Wakil et al.
BACKGROUND: In communities with low rates of institutional delivery, little data exist on care-seeking behavior for potentially life-threatening obstetric complications. In this analysis, we sought to describe care-seeking patterns for self-reported complications and near misses in rural Bangladesh ...
Shegufta Shefa Sikder, Alain Labrique, Barkat Ullah, Hasmot Ali et al.
BACKGROUND: As maternal deaths have decreased worldwide, increasing attention has been placed on the study of severe obstetric complications, such as hemorrhage, eclampsia, and obstructed labor, to identify where improvements can be made in maternal health. Though access to medical care is considere...
Shegufta Shefa Sikder, Alain Labrique, Hasmot Ali, Abu Abdullah Mohammad Hanif et al.
BACKGROUND: Although safe motherhood strategies recommend that women seek timely care from health facilities for obstetric complications, few studies have described facility availability of emergency obstetric care (EmOC). We sought to describe and compare availability and readiness to provide EmOC ...
Shegufta Shefa Sikder, Alain Labrique, Barkat Ullah, Sucheta Mehra et al.
BACKGROUND: Though non-communicable diseases contribute to an increasing share of the disease burden in South Asia, health systems in most rural communities are ill-equipped to deal with chronic illness. This analysis seeks to describe care-seeking behavior among women of reproductive age who died f...
Shegufta Shefa Sikder, Rakhi Ghoshal, Padma Bhate‐Deosthali, Chandni Jaishwal et al.
BACKGROUND: Violence against women (VAW) is a global challenge, and the health sector is a key entry point for survivors to receive care. The World Health Organization adopted an earlier framework for health systems response to survivors. However, documentation on the programmatic rollout of health ...
Mohammad Zahid Hossain, Shegufta Shefa Sikder, Khalequ Zaman, Parimalendu Saha et al.
In rural Bangladesh, acute viral hepatitis presents a significant burden on the public-health system. As part of the formative work for a large epidemiologic study of hepatitis E in rural Bangladesh, we sought to identify local terms that could be used for population-based screening of acute viral h...
Alamgir Kabir, Md Mahbubur Rashid, Kamal Hossain, Arifuzzaman Khan et al.
Abstract Background : The burden of maternal undernutrition and low birth weight (LBW) incurs enormous economic costs due to their adverse consequences. Women’s empowerment is believed to be one of the key factors for attaining maternal and child health and nutritional goals. Our objective was to in...
Alamgir Kabir, Md Mahbubur Rashid, Kamal Hossain, Arifuzzaman Khan et al.