Phuong Hong Nguyen, Sunny S. Kim, Tina Sanghvi, Zeba Mahmud et al.
Background: Maternal undernutrition is a major concern globally, contributing to poor birth outcomes. Limited evidence exists on delivering multiple interventions for maternal nutrition simultaneously. Alive & Thrive addressed this gap by integrating nutrition-focused interpersonal counseling, commu...
Phuong Hong Nguyen, Tina Sanghvi, Sunny S. Kim, Lan Mai Tran et al.
Improving maternal nutrition practices during pregnancy is essential to save lives and improve health outcomes for both mothers and babies. This paper examines the maternal, household, and health service factors influencing maternal nutrition practices in the context of a large scale maternal, newbo...
Beatrice R Egid, María Roura, Bachera Aktar, Jessica Amegee Quach et al.
INTRODUCTION: Power relations permeate research partnerships and compromise the ability of participatory research approaches to bring about transformational and sustainable change. This study aimed to explore how participatory health researchers engaged in co-production research perceive and experie...
Phuong Hong Nguyen, Edward A. Frongillo, Tina Sanghvi, Gargi Wable Grandner et al.
Background: Although husbands may provide support during pregnancy, limited evidence exists on how to promote husbands' engagement and what impact it has. Alive & Thrive integrated nutrition-focused interventions, targeting both wives and husbands, through an existing Maternal, Neonatal, and Child H...
Phuong Hong Nguyen, Tina Sanghvi, Lan Mai Tran, Kaosar Afsana et al.
Little is known about nutrition and well-being indicators of pregnant adolescents and the availability and use of nutrition interventions delivered through maternal, newborn, and child health (MNCH) programs. This study compared the differences between pregnant adolescents and adult pregnant women i...
Rushdiá Ahmed, Bachera Aktar, Nadia Farnaz, Pushpita Ray et al.
BACKGROUND: Rohingya diaspora or Forcibly Displaced Myanmar Nationals (FDMNs), took shelter in the refugee camps of Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh due to armed conflict in the Rakhine state of Myanmar. In such humanitarian crises, delivering sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services is critical for bet...
Rushdiá Ahmed, Nadia Farnaz, Bachera Aktar, Raafat Hassan et al.
INTRODUCTION: Rohingya diaspora are one of the most vulnerable groups seeking refuge in camps of Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, arising an acute humanitarian crisis. More than half of the Rohingya refugees are women and adolescent girls requiring quality sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services. Mini...
Bachera Aktar, Wafa Alam, Samiha Ali, Abdul Awal et al.
Safeguarding is rapidly rising up the international development agenda, yet literature on safeguarding in related research is limited. This paper shares processes and practice relating to safeguarding within an international research consortium (the ARISE hub, known as ARISE). ARISE aims to enhance ...
Muhammad Riaz Hossain, Ateeb Ahmad Parray, Rafia Sultana, Bachera Aktar et al.
The COVID-19 pandemic has raised new concerns about healthcare service availability, accessibility, and affordability in complex humanitarian settings where heterogeneous populations reside, such as Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh. This study was conducted in ten Rohingya camps and four wards of the...
Sameen Nasar, Saifa Raz, Ateeb Ahmad Parray, Muhammad Riaz Hossain et al.
The massive influx of Rohingya refugees in Cox's Bazar district of Bangladesh has created a severe humanitarian crisis, which has been exacerbated by the COVID–19 pandemic. The research focused on the most vulnerable groups (MVGs) of Rohingya and adjacent host communities, such as pregnant and/or la...
Sabina Faiz Rashid, Bachera Aktar, Nadia Farnaz, Sally Theobald et al.
In this paper we aim to better understand the lived experiences of the slum dwellers in Dhaka, Bangladesh and the social, economic and health and well-being constraints resulting from the nationwide shutdown due to COVID-19 pandemic. We undertook rapid qualitative research telephone interviews (51, ...
Edward A. Frongillo, Phuong Hong Nguyen, Tina Sanghvi, Zeba Mahmud et al.
Background: Antenatal care may be a means to reduce food insecurity in pregnancy and postpartum periods. Objective: With the use of a cluster-randomized design, we tested whether participation in nutrition-focused antenatal care intending to improve household knowledge about the importance of nutrit...
Kim Ozano, Wafa Alam, Bachera Aktar, Linet Okoth et al.
Equitable health research requires actively engaging communities in producing new knowledge to advocate for their health needs. Community-based participatory research (CBPR) relies on the coproduction of contextual and grounded knowledge between researchers, programme implementers and community part...
Mahfuzar Rahman, Fakir Md Yunus, Rashed Shah, Fatema Tuz Jhohura et al.
OBJECTIVES: We evaluated the impact of the Improving Maternal, Neonatal, and Child Survival (IMNCS) project, which is being implemented by BRAC in rural communities in Bangladesh. METHODS: Four districts received program intervention i.e. trained community health workers to deliver essential materna...
Katy Davis, Ralalicia Limato, Meenakshi Monga, Beatrice Egid et al.
Global inequities in the burden of antimicrobial resistance (AMR), between and within populations, are heavily influenced by the social and structural determinants of health. Yet, AMR action has had limited attention to equity, and social approaches to AMR haven't routinely gone beyond an exploratio...