Nusrat Homaira, Stephen P. Luby, William A. Petri, Raija Vainionpää et al.
BACKGROUND: Pneumonia is the leading cause of childhood death in Bangladesh. We conducted a longitudinal study to estimate the incidence of virus-associated pneumonia in children aged <2 years in a low-income urban community in Dhaka, Bangladesh. METHODS: We followed a cohort of children for two yea...
Allisyn C. Moran, Nuzhat Choudhury, Nazib Uz Zaman Khan, Zunaid Ahsan Karar et al.
BACKGROUND: Urbanization is occurring at a rapid pace, especially in low-income countries. Dhaka, Bangladesh, is estimated to grow to 50 million by 2015, with 21 million living in urban slums. Although health services are available, neonatal mortality is higher in slum areas than in urban non-slum a...
Mohammad Delwer Hossain Hawlader, Mohammad Lutfor Rahman, Anum Nazir, Tasnim Ara et al.
OBJECTIVES: With COVID-19 vaccination underway, this study aimed to understand belief, attitude and intention of the people in the South Asia region towards the vaccine. METHODS: We conducted a cross-sectional study using semi-structured questionnaires among 18201 individuals in four South Asian cou...
Habib Zaman Khan, Rashidozzaman Khan
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the extent of human capital (HC) reporting in leading Bangladeshi firms using the HC reporting framework, thereby making a contribution to the body of knowledge in the area of HC reporting practice in a developing country context. Design/methodology/ap...
Asma Binta Hasan, Sohail Kabir, A.H.M. Selim Reza, Mohammad Nazim Zaman et al.
This study reveals potential accumulation of trace metals in the sea and groundwater due to ship breaking activities which take place along the Bay of Bengal in Sitakund Upazilla, Chittagong, Bangladesh. When compared with WHO and Bangladesh domestic standards for water quality, it is revealed that ...
Salah Uddin Khan, Emily S. Gurley, Nancy Gerloff, Mohammed Ziaur Rahman et al.
Avian influenza viruses, including highly pathogenic strains, pose severe economic, animal and public health concerns. We implemented live bird market surveillance in Bangladesh to identify the subtypes of avian influenza A viruses in domestic waterfowl and market environments. We collected waterfow...
Ricardo Aguás, Adam Mahdi, Rima Shretta, Peter Horby et al.
Dexamethasone can reduce mortality in hospitalised COVID-19 patients needing oxygen and ventilation by 18% and 36%, respectively. Here, we estimate the potential number of lives saved and life years gained if this treatment were to be rolled out in the UK and globally, as well as the cost-effectiven...
E. Ross Colgate, Rashidul Haque, Dorothy M. Dickson, Marya P. Carmolli et al.
BACKGROUND: Rotavirus is the world's leading cause of childhood diarrheal death. Despite successes, oral rotavirus vaccines are less effective in developing countries. In an urban slum of Dhaka, we performed active diarrhea surveillance to evaluate monovalent G1P[8] rotavirus vaccine (RV1) efficacy ...
Aneire Khan, Wei Xun, Habibul Ahsan, Paolo Vineis
Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1. IPCC, "IPCC Fourth Assessment Report. Asia," in Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. Contribution of Working Group II to the Fourth Assessment Report of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (Cambridge, UK: ...
Md. Shirajur Rahman, Md. Minhajul Islam, Md. Sazedul Islam, Asaduz Zaman et al.
Carol A. Gilchrist, James A. Cotton, Cecelia Burkey, Tuhinur Arju et al.
We studied the genetic diversity of Cryptosporidium hominis infections in slum-dwelling infants from Dhaka over a 2-year period. Cryptosporidium hominis infections were common during the monsoon, and were genetically diverse as measured by gp60 genotyping and whole-genome resequencing. Recombination...
Mohammad Kamruzzaman, Shamsuddin Shahid, Dilip Kumar Roy, Abu Reza Md. Towfiqul Islam et al.
Abstract This study evaluated the rainfall historical simulations of 15 Global Climate Models (GCMs) of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project phase 6 (CMIP6) in replicating annual and seasonal rainfall climatology, their temporal variability and trends in Bangladesh for the period 1979–2014, con...
Alexander Upfill‐Brown, Mami Taniuchi, James A Platts-Mills, Beth D. Kirkpatrick et al.
BACKGROUND: As the global polio eradication initiative prepares to cease use of oral polio vaccine (OPV) in 2020, there is increasing interest in understanding if oral vaccination provides non-specific immunity to other infections so that the consequences of this transition can be effectively planne...
Nadia Ali Rimi, Rebeca Sultana, Stephen P. Luby, Md Saiful Islam et al.
OBJECTIVE: This paper describes the physical structure and environmental contamination in selected hospital wards in three government hospitals in Bangladesh. METHODS: The qualitative research team conducted 48 hours of observation in six wards from three Bangladeshi tertiary hospitals in 2007. They...
Penny Holding, Adote Anum, Fons J. R. van de Vijver, Maclean Vokhiwa et al.
We developed a test battery for use among children in Bangladesh, Ghana, and Tanzania, assessing general intelligence, executive functioning, and school achievement. The instruments were drawn from previously published materials and tests. The instruments were adapted and translated in a systematic ...