Sophie Cousins
Aid agencies are warning that a lack of funding to protect Rohingya refugees from the approaching monsoon season in Bangladesh could lead to catastrophic deaths from disease outbreaks, landslides, and flash flooding. Nearly 700 000 Rohingya—mainly women and children—have fled to Bangladesh since la...
Abul Hasnat Golam Quddus
The primary objective of the study was to determine the extent of pre- and extra-marital sexual involvement of married males of slums. Data were collected through a sample survey and in-depth interviews. The respondents were low-income married male household heads living in slums of Bangladesh. The ...
Asif Mehmood, Joshua J. Cousins
Abstract Legal and judicial mediation and arbitration significantly influence who has access and control over resources. Taking insights from post‐political debates in political ecology and discussions at the intersection of critical legal geography and political ecology, we focus on the production ...
H Hardouz, H. Hami, A. Mokhtari, Abdelmajid Soulaymani et al.
Consanguineous marriage has received a great deal of attention as a potential risk factor for many adverse health outcomes. More than a billion people in the world live in regions where 20%-50% of marriages are consanguineous. The aim of this study is to determine the frequency and types of consangu...
James J. Tattersall, Shawnee L. McMurran
Hertha Ayrton: A Persistent Experimenter James J. Tattersall Shawnee L. McMurran Hertha Ayrton, EngUsh sdentist-inventor, received the Royal Sodety of London's prestigious Hughes Medal a century ago for her work on the electric arc and the origin of sand ripples. She remains the lone woman to have r...
Philipp du Cros, Jane Greig, J.-W. C. Alffenaar, Gail Brenda Cross et al.
BACKGROUND: The value, speed of completion and robustness of the evidence generated by TB treatment trials could be improved by implementing standards for best practice. METHODS: A global panel of experts participated in a Delphi process, using a 7-point Likert scale to score and revise draft standa...
Despite efforts to boost its health workforce, Bangladesh is struggling to make progress towards universal coverage of health services. Sophie Cousins reports.
Kiyotaka Tomiwa, M Baraitser, E. Brett, James M. Wilson
A database which runs on an office microcomputer is being developed for the diagnosis of genetically determined neurological disorders. At present about 1100 conditions with their clinical features and 3000 references are stored in the database. We discuss a family with 3 sibs affected by a unique n...
Farah Naz Rahman, MH Chowdhury, H. Kabir, Junaid Alam et al.
Background: Every year in Bangladesh an estimated 3500 - 4000 children are born with a clubfoot deformity, which is approximately one of every 1000 children born in Bangladesh. Left untreated, the condition leads to lifelong deformity causing individual disability and potential unproductivity. Affec...
Atikul Haque Farazi, Abu Jafor Mia, Md Ilias Mahmud
Heavy rainfall occurs almost every year in Bangladesh and induces landslides in the hilly regions of this country. Among them the Chittagong City has the worst scenario―as there lives a dense population, extending from the plain lands to the hilly area. So, for risk mitigation and management in this...
Sophie Cousins
Flooding has killed more than 800 people and displaced over a million in India, Nepal, and Bangladesh, raising fears of widespread outbreaks of waterborne and vectorborne disease. Although the seasonal monsoon rains from June to September are crucial to farmers across the region, this year’s floodi...
Elora Halim Chowdhury
In this autoethnographic piece, I explore the intersections of food, memory, and community to shed light on a gendered social history of middle-class and Muslim South Asian identity. While stories of the everyday food habits and practices of ordinary people may seem banal, feminist food studies have...
Hugo MacDermott-Opeskin, Jenke Scheen, Cas Wognum, Joshua T. Horton et al.
Computational blind challenges offer critical, unbiased assessment opportunities to assess and accelerate scientific progress, as demonstrated by a breadth of breakthroughs over the last decade. We report the outcomes and key insights from an open science community blind challenge focused on computa...
Sajjad Hosain
The purpose of this qualitative study is to identify and share emotional as well as psychological intimate partner violence (IPV) experienced by the husbands in Bangladesh by their wives. The study further elaborates on the consequences of such IPV on the victims’ families based on informal intervie...
Md. Sanwar Siraj
In 1999, the Bangladesh government introduced the Human Organ Transplantation Act allowing organ transplants from both brain-dead and living-related donors. This Act approved organ donation within family networks, which included immediate family members such as parents, adult children, siblings, unc...