Khurshid Alam, Sakiba Tasneem, Elizabeth Oliveras
Volunteer community health workers (CHWs) are one approach to addressing the health workforce crisis in developing countries. BRAC, a large Bangladeshi NGO, a pioneer in this area, uses female volunteer CHWs as core workers in its health programs. After 25 years of implementing the CHW model in rura...
Khurshid Alam, Sakiba Tasneem, Elizabeth Oliveras
INTRODUCTION: Volunteer community health workers (CHWs) are one approach to addressing the health workforce shortage in developing countries. BRAC, a large NGO in Bangladesh, is a pioneer in using female volunteer CHWs as core workers in its successful health programmes. After 25 years of implementi...
Khurshid Alam, Elizabeth Oliveras
BACKGROUND: Volunteer community health workers (CHWs) are a key approach to improving community-based maternal and child health services in developing countries. BRAC, a large Bangladeshi non-governmental organization (NGO), has employed female volunteer CHWs in its community-based health programs s...
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...
Nazmun Nahar, Utpal K. Mondal, Rebeca Sultana, M. Jahangir Hossain et al.
People in Bangladesh frequently drink fresh date palm sap. Fruit bats (Pteropus giganteus) also drink raw sap and may contaminate the sap by shedding Nipah virus through saliva and urine. In a previous study we identified two indigenous methods to prevent bats accessing the sap, bamboo skirts and li...
Haribondhu Sarma, Elizabeth Oliveras
School-based HIV/AIDS education is a common and well-proven intervention strategy for providing information on HIV/AIDS to young people. However, lack of skills among teachers for imparting sensitive information to students can lead to programme failure in terms of achieving goals. A cross-sectional...
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...
Heidi Bart Johnston, Elizabeth Oliveras, Shamima Akhter, Damian Walker
CONTEXT: Treatment of complications of unsafe abortion can be a significant financial drain on health system resources, particularly in developing countries. In Bangladesh, menstrual regulation is provided by the government as a backup to contraception. The comparison of economic costs of providing ...
Tasnim Azim, Sharful Islam Khan, Quamrun Nahar, Masud Reza et al.
This report synthesizes data from surveillance, behavioral surveys and published and unpublished research to better understand emerging patterns and trends in the HIV epidemic in Bangladesh. Taking stock of 20 years of experience with HIV in Bangladesh, this report summarizes what is known about the...
Humayun Kabir, Nirod Chandra Saha, Elizabeth Oliveras, Rukhsana Gazi
OBJECTIVE: The study was conducted to identify selected programmatic factors relating to low contraceptive-use in a low-performing rural sub-district in Sylhet division of Bangladesh. METHODS: A cross-sectional survey was carried out among 6983 currently-married women of reproductive age (MWRA) (15-...
Elizabeth Oliveras, Clement Ahiadeke, Richard Adanu, Allan G. Hill
Reliable measures of induced abortion remain elusive, especially when the public perception is that the procedure is immoral or improper. This study draws on interviews using a modified preceding birth technique (PBT) with women attending antenatal and maternity clinics in Accra to compare rates of ...
Heidi Bart Johnston, Shamima Akhter, Elizabeth Oliveras
Treating complications of unsafe abortion can be financially draining for health systems. This analysis assessed incremental health system costs of service delivery for abortion-related complications in the Bangladesh public health system and confirmed that providing postabortion care with vacuum as...
Gustavo Caetano Correa, Md. Jasim Uddin, Tasnuva Wahed, Elizabeth Oliveras et al.
Zero-dose (ZD) children is a critical objective in global health, and it is at the heart of the Immunization Agenda 2030 (IA2030) strategy. Coverage for the first dose of diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis (DTP1)-containing vaccine is the global operational indicator used to estimate ZD children. When sur...
Farhana Sultana, Quamrun Nahar, Lena Marions, Elizabeth Oliveras
OBJECTIVE: To determine whether the quality of post-menstrual regulation family-planning services (post-MRFP) affected contraceptive use at 3-month follow-up. METHODS: 915 women who received post-MRFP in 2 public and 1 NGO clinics in a district in Bangladesh were interviewed to obtain information on...
Hemel Das, Zerin Jannat, Kaniz Fatema, Jannat-E-Tajreen Momo et al.
Background In the era of Gavi's 5.0 vision of "leaving no one behind with immunization", childhood routine vaccination in missed communities is considered as a priority concern. Despite having a success story at the national level, low uptake of immunization is still persistent in selected pocket ar...