Jan Nilsson, Avni Rana, Zarina Nahar Kabir
The objective of this article is to identify determinants of quality of life (QoL) and investigate their association with individual- and community-level social capital among older people in rural Bangladesh. A cross-sectional study of 1,135 elderly persons (aged >/= 60 years) was conducted in a rur...
Avni Rana, Åke Wåhlin, Cecilia Stålsby Lundborg, Zarina Nahar Kabir
UNLABELLED: This study examines the change in health-related quality of life (HRQoL) among (> or =60 years) elderly persons as a result of health education intervention. A community-based intervention study was performed in eight randomly selected villages ( INTERVENTION: n = 4; CONTROL: n = 4) in r...
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...
Syed Masud Ahmed, Avni Rana, Mushtaque Chowdhury, Abbas Bhuiya
This study explored the usefulness of a generic health assessment tool SF-36 in measuring perceived health outcomes in a developing-country setting. The adapted Bangla version was administered in 10 villages of Matlab sub-district in Bangladesh during second half of 1999. Respondents included curren...
Jan Nilsson, Avni Rana, Duong Huy Luong, Bengt Winblad et al.
This study compares health-related quality of life (HRQoL) and its determinants among older people (≥60 years) in rural Bangladesh and Vietnam. Cross-sectional studies among older people were conducted in Bangladesh (n = 1031) and Vietnam (n = 870). Data on HRQoL were collected using an instrument t...
Sharful Islam Khan, Masud Reza, Suzanne M. Crowe, Mustafizur Rahman et al.
The rates of both HIV and HCV are exploding among the People Who Inject Drugs (PWID) subpopulation in the People's Republic of Bangladesh. 5,586 HIV confirmed cases have been reported since the first case of HIV was identified in 1989, of which, 865 new cases (15.5%) have been reported in the year 2...
Mohammad Niaz Morshed Khan, Golam Sarwar, Samira Dishti Irfan, Gorkey Gourab et al.
Coverage of HIV testing services (HTS) is generally low among men who have sex with men (MSM) and transgender women ( hijra) in Bangladesh, thus impeding the national goal of attaining the 90-90-90 target. In this context, this article delineates HTS uptake barriers among these populations. This qua...
Masud Reza, Avni Rana, Mohammad Niaz Morshed Khan, Md. Safiullah Sarker et al.
BACKGROUND: The HIV epidemic in Bangladesh is largely being driven by people who inject drugs (PWID) and mainly concentrated in Dhaka city. Intregrated biological and behavioural survey (IBBS) data of 2016 showed that a considerable percentage of the HIV positive PWID had unsafe sex with their femal...
Gorkey Gourab, Golam Sarwar, Mohammad Niaz Morshed Khan, A M Rumayan Hasan et al.
INTRODUCTION: In Bangladesh, sexually transmitted infection (STI) services are available for all populations in public health facilities. However, STI services for key populations (KPs) at risk of HIV need specifically designed approaches that are predominantly administered to KPs through donor-supp...
Golam Sarwar, Masud Reza, Mohammad Niaz Morshed Khan, Gorkey Gourab et al.
INTRODUCTION: Although Bangladesh is a country of generalised tuberculosis (TB) epidemic, the HIV prevalence is low among general populations, and 3.9% among key populations. Despite the high possibility of HIV-TB coinfection, scientifically tested approaches for increasing TB case detection among s...
Sharful Islam Khan, Masud Reza, Gorkey Gourab, Md. Iftekher Hussain et al.
MSW and hijra was funded by The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM), through the Grant ‘Expanding HIV/AIDS Prevention in Bangladesh’, under the terms of Grant Agreement No. BAN-202-G13-H-00 with icddr,b.