Roy Sk, Rubhana Raqib, Wajiha Khatun, Tasnim Azim et al.
Objective To assess the impact of zinc supplementation on clinical recovery, weight gain and subsequent growth and morbidity in moderately malnourished children with shigellosis. Design A randomized, double-blind, controlled trial. Setting Dhaka hospital of ICDDR,B: Centre for Health and Population ...
Emma Sacks, Robert Chad Swanson, Jean J. Schensul, Anna Gleave et al.
Definitions of health systems strengthening (HSS) have been limited in their inclusion of communities, despite evidence that community involvement improves program effectiveness for many health interventions. We review 15 frameworks for HSS, highlighting how communities are represented and find few ...
Eric L. Harshfield, Rajiv Chowdhury, Meera N. Harhay, Henry Bergquist et al.
BACKGROUND: Cardiovascular diseases and risk factors are disproportionally concentrated among the socioeconomically disadvantaged in high-income countries; however, this relationship is not well-understood or documented in resource-limited countries. METHODS: We analysed data from the 2011 Banglades...
Rajiv Chowdhury, Rasheda K. Choudhury, Samir Ranjan Nath, Education Watch
Rajiv Chowdhury, Samir Ranjan Nath, Rasheda K. Choudhury
Rajiv Chowdhury, Samir Ranjan Nath, Rasheda K. Choudhury
Salahuddin Ahmed, Satindra Nath Mitra, Rajiv Chowdhury, L L Camacho et al.
Objective Immediate Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC), an intervention following childbirth whereby the newborn is placed skin-to-skin (STS) on mother's chest to promote thermal regulation, breastfeeding and maternal-newborn bonding, is being taught in very low-income countries to improve newborn health an...
Rajiv Chowdhury, Dewan S Alam, Ismail Ibrahim Fakir, Sheikh Daud Adnan et al.
During recent decades, Bangladesh has experienced a rapid epidemiological transition from communicable to non-communicable diseases. Coronary heart disease (CHD), with myocardial infarction (MI) as its main manifestation, is a major cause of death in the country. However, there is limited reliable e...
Fazlul Karim, Rajiv Chowdhury, Akramul Islam, Mitchell G. Weiss
In addition to marginalization by poverty and ethnicity, gender is likely to contribute to vulnerability to TB-related stigma affecting women. Stigma often contributes to psychosocial problems and emotional suffering, and it may hinder help seeking and treatment adherence. TB-related stigma and its ...
Jeffrey D. Wall, J. Fah Sathirapongsasuti, Ravi Gupta, Asif Rasheed et al.
The benefits of large-scale genetic studies for healthcare of the populations studied are well documented, but these genetic studies have traditionally ignored people from some parts of the world, such as South Asia. Here we describe whole genome sequence (WGS) data from 4806 individuals recruited f...
Rajiv Chowdhury, Education Watch
Rajiv Chowdhury, Richard A. Cash
of oral rehydration therapy in one million lives and billions of dollars every year. 1967-68 at the then Cholera Research Laboratory in Still, to fulfil its potential, it must be accepted by Dhaka. Now a lecturer at the Harvard School of countless mothers and fathers, or, as Chowdhury Public Health,...
Abbas Bhuiya, Shehrin Shaila Mahmood, Avni Rana, Tania Binte Wahed et al.
Poverty is increasingly being understood as a multidimensional phenomenon. Other than income-consumption, which has been extensively studied in the past, health, education, shelter, and social involvement are among the most important dimensions of poverty. The present study attempts to develop a sim...
Kshitij Jagtap, R Naveen, Jessica Day, Parikshit Sen et al.
OBJECTIVE: Flares of autoimmune rheumatic diseases (AIRDs) following COVID-19 vaccination are a particular concern in vaccine-hesitant individuals. Therefore, we investigated the incidence, predictors and patterns of flares following vaccination in individuals living with AIRDs, using global COVID-1...
Nagendra Monangi, Huan Xu, Rasheda Khanam, Waqasuddin Khan et al.
BACKGROUND: Selenium (Se), an essential trace mineral, has been implicated in preterm birth (PTB). We aimed to determine the association of maternal Se concentrations during pregnancy with PTB risk and gestational duration in a large number of samples collected from diverse populations. METHODS: Ges...