Michael Koenig, Saifuddin Ahmed, Mian Bazle Hossain, A. B. M. Khorshed Alam Mozumder
We explore the determinants of domestic violence in two rural areas of Bangladesh. We found increased education, higher socioeconomic status, non-Muslim religion, and extended family residence to be associated with lower risks of violence. The effects of women's status on violence was found to be hi...
George Pariyo, Abigail R Greenleaf, Dustin G. Gibson, Joseph Ali et al.
INTRODUCTION: Increased mobile phone subscribership in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) provides novel opportunities to track population health. The objective of this study was to examine reliability of data in comparing participant responses collected using two mobile phone survey (MPS) del...
Abdullah H Baqui, Salahuddin Ahmed, Nazma Begum, Rasheda Khanam et al.
BACKGROUND: Short birth intervals are associated with an increased risk of adverse perinatal outcomes. However, reduction of rates of short birth intervals is challenging in low-resource settings where majority of the women deliver at home with limited access to family planning services immediately ...
Saifuddin Ahmed, Salahuddin Ahmed, Catharine McKaig, Nazma Begum et al.
Meeting postpartum contraceptive need remains a major challenge in developing countries, where the majority of women deliver at home. Using a quasi-experimental trial design, we examine the effect of integrating family planning (FP) with a community-based maternal and newborn health (MNH) program on...
Saifuddin Ahmed, Kenneth Hill
OBJECTIVE: To provide a model-based method of estimating maternal mortality at the subnational level and illustrate its use in estimating maternal mortality rates (MMrates) and maternal mortality ratios (MMRs) in all 64 districts of Bangladesh. METHODS: Knowing that mortality is more pronounced amon...
Abdullah H Baqui, Shams El Arifeen, Heather Rosen, Ishtiaq Mannan et al.
OBJECTIVES: To validate trained community health workers' recognition of signs and symptoms of newborn illnesses and classification of illnesses using a clinical algorithm during routine home visits in rural Bangladesh. METHODS: Between August 2005 and May 2006, 288 newborns were assessed independen...
James Regun Karmoker, Ikramul Hasan, Nusrat Ahmed, Mohammad Saifuddin et al.
The grail of the study was to design, develop and characterize sustained release mucoadhesive microspheres of acyclovir and to optimize the drug release profile using response surface methodology by applying Box–Behnken design (BBD) which was equipped with three levels and three factors. Microsphere...
Mohammad Zahidul Islam, Makoto Itoh, Rusella Mirza, Iftikhar Ahmed et al.
A new direct agglutination test (DAT) for use with urine samples for the diagnosis of visceral leishmaniasis (VL) has been developed and compared with the conventional DAT with serum samples and our previously reported enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) with urine samples (urine ELISA). The n...
M. Hafizur Rahman, W. Henry Mosley, Saifuddin Ahmed, Halida H. Akhter
Maternal mortality is a serious public health concern in Bangladesh. However, most deaths could be prevented through proper and timely care seeking and adequate management. Unfortunately, fewer than half of pregnant women in Bangladesh seek antenatal care, and only one in eight receive delivery care...
Gary L. Darmstadt, Samir K. Saha, ASM Nawshad Uddin Ahmed, Yoonjoung Choi et al.
Topical emollient therapy may reduce the incidence of serious infections and mortality of preterm infants in developing countries. We tested whether emollient therapy reduced the burden of pathogens on skin and/or prevented bacterial translocation. Neonates <33 wk gestational age were randomized to ...
Md Mehedi Hasan, Ricardo J. Soares Magalhães, Sarah P. Garnett, Yaqoot Fatima et al.
Objective: To examine trends in, and projections of, the prevalence of anaemia in women of reproductive age in low- and middle-income countries at national and subpopulation levels. Methods: We used nationally representative data from repeated cross-sectional Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) on ...
Tasnimul Alam Taz, Kawsar Ahmed, Bikash Kumar Paul, Fahad Ahmed Al-Zahrani et al.
This study aimed to identify significant gene expression profiles of the human lung epithelial cells caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infections. We performed a comparative genomic analysis to show genomic observations between SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2. A phylogen...
Saifuddin Mahmud, Md Altab Hossin, Md. Razu Ahmed, Sheak Rashed Haider Noori et al.
Machine learning gained a significant position in healthcare services (HCS) due to its ability to improve the disease prediction in HCS. Machine learning techniques and artificial intelligence have already been worked in the HCS area. Recently, diabetes is a notable public chronic disease worldwide....
Salahuddin Ahmed, Maureen Norton, Emma Williams, Saifuddin Ahmed et al.
BACKGROUND: Short birth intervals are associated with increased risk of adverse maternal and neonatal health (MNH) outcomes. Improving postpartum contraceptive use is an important programmatic strategy to improve the health and well-being of women, newborns, and children. This article documents the ...
Sanwarul Bari, Ishtiaq Mannan, Mohammed Anisur Rahman, Gary L. Darmstadt et al.
The Projahnmo-II Project in Mirzapur upazila (sub-district), Tangail district, Bangladesh, is promoting care-seeking for sick newborns through health education of families, identification and referral of sick newborns in the community by community health workers (CHWs), and strengthening of neonatal...