Md. Jasim Uddin, Md Shamsuzzaman, Lily Horng, Alain Labrique et al.
In Bangladesh, full vaccination rates among children living in rural hard-to-reach areas and urban streets are low. We conducted a quasi-experimental pre-post study of a 12-month mobile phone intervention to improve vaccination among 0–11 months old children in rural hard-to-reach and urban street d...
Charles P. Larson
It is estimated that nearly 100,000 children are born into poverty each year in Canada. During pregnancy, their mothers are likely to face multiple stressful life events, including lone-mother and teenage pregnancies, unemployment, more crowded or polluted physical environments, and far fewer resour...
M. Sirajul Islam, A. A. Brooks, M.S. Kabir, Iqbal Kabir Jahid et al.
AIMS: To describe the extent of faecal pollution and point of use water treatment strategy during and after the 2004 flood in Dhaka. METHODS: A total of 300 water samples were collected from 20 different drinking water sources in Kamalapur, Dhaka city from August 2004 to January 2005. The level of f...
Charles P. Larson, Unnati Rani Saha, Rafiqul Islam, Nikhil Roy
BACKGROUND: Monitoring for disparities in health and services received based upon gender, income, and geography should continue as renewed efforts to reduce under-five mortality are made in response to millennium development goal #4. The purpose of this survey was to provide a nationally representat...
Charles P. Larson, Unnati Rani Saha, Hazera Nazrul
BACKGROUND: Zinc treatment of childhood diarrhea has the potential to save 400,000 under-five lives per year in lesser developed countries. In 2004 the World Health Organization (WHO)/UNICEF revised their clinical management of childhood diarrhea guidelines to include zinc. The aim of this study was...
Ahmed Ehsanur Rahman, Afrin Iqbal, Dewan Md Emdadul Hoque, Md Moinuddin et al.
INTRODUCTION: Sepsis is dysregulated systemic inflammatory response which can lead to tissue damage, organ failure, and death. With an estimated 30 million cases per year, it is a global public health concern. Severe infections leading to sepsis account for more than half of all under five deaths an...
Alaullah Sheikh, Sohel Shamsuzzaman, Shaikh Meshbahuddin Ahmad, Dilruba Nasrin et al.
Information is limited on the effect of zinc on immune responses in children with diarrhea due to enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC), the most common bacterial pathogen in children. We studied the immunological effect of zinc treatment (20 mg/d) and supplementation (10 mg/d) in children with di...
Mohammad Shahidul Islam, M. A. Yushuf Sharker, Shafiq Rheman, Shahadat Hossain et al.
Cholera is considered as a model for climate-related infectious diseases. In Bangladesh, cholera epidemics occur during summer and winter seasons, but it is not known how climate variability influences the seasonality of cholera. Therefore, the variability pattern of cholera events was studied in re...
Md. Jasim Uddin, Charles P. Larson, Elizabeth Oliveras, A I Khan et al.
The study assessed the impact of an EPI (Expanded Programme on Immunization) intervention package, implemented within the existing service-delivery system, to improve the child immunization coverage in urban slums of Dhaka, Bangladesh. This intervention trial used a pre- and post-test design. An int...
Charles P. Larson, Tracey Pérez Koehlmoos, David A. Sack, the Scaling Up of Zinc for Young Children (SUZY) Project Team
In 2003, the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B), in partnership with the Bangladesh Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MOHFW) and the private sector embarked on a national exercise to scale up zinc treatment of childhood diarrhoea as an adjunct to oral reh...
Charles P. Larson, Roy Sk, Azharul Islam Khan, Ahmed Shafiqur Rahman et al.
Zinc is an essential micronutrient associated with over 300 biological functions. Marginal zinc deficiency states are common among children living in poverty and exposed to diets either low in zinc or high in phytates that compromise zinc uptake. These children are at increased risk of morbidity due...
Alec Mercer, Farhana Haseen, Nafisa Lira Huq, Nasir Uddin et al.
Neonatal deaths account for about half of all deaths among children under 5 years of age in Bangladesh, making prevention a major priority. This paper reports on a study of neonatal deaths in 12 areas of Bangladesh served by a large NGO programme, which had high coverage of reproductive health outre...
Dilruba Nasrin, Charles P. Larson, Samina Sultana, Toslim Uddin Khan
Zinc treatment is now recommended by the World Health Organization as part of the routine management of acute childhood diarrhoea. A dispersible zinc tablet formulation was developed taking into account the taste, cost, and feasibility to distribute and store. Only limited information is available o...
Md. Jasim Uddin, Charles P. Larson, Elizabeth Oliveras, Azharul Islam Khan et al.
This article assessed the status of childhood vaccination coverage and the possibility of using selected alternative vaccination strategies in rural hard-to-reach haor (low lying) areas of Bangladesh. Data were collected through survey, in-depth interviews, group discussion, and observations of vacc...
Frances E. Aboud, Nafisa Lira Huq, Charles P. Larson, Livia Ottisova
Efforts to prevent HIV from becoming widespread among the youth population 15-24 years in Bangladesh are in the early stages. However, conservative religious and cultural norms may curtail the dissemination of needed information about sexuality and condoms. The community-readiness stages model was a...