Haribondhu Sarma, Jahidur Rahman Khan, Mohammad Asaduzzaman, Fakhar Uddin et al.
BACKGROUND: Poor nutrition during childhood impedes physical and mental development of children, which propagate the vicious cycle of intergenerational under nutrition. This paper is aimed at understanding the determinants of stunting among children aged 0 to 59 months in Bangladesh. METHODS: The st...
Scholastica M. Zakayo, Rita Wanjuki Njeru, Gladys Sanga, Mary N. Kimani et al.
BACKGROUND: Child mortality rates during hospitalisation for acute illness and after discharge are unacceptably high in many under-resourced settings. Childhood vulnerability to recurrent illness, and death, is linked to their families' situations and ability to make choices and act (their agency). ...
Md Hasnine, Md Emadul Huda, Rajada Khatun, A. H. M. Saadat et al.
Higher accumulation of toxic heavy metals in rice grown in agricultural soil may lead to health disorder. The present study was carried out to assess the levels of different heavy metals like potassium, calcium, titanium, vanadium, chromium, manganese, iron, cobalt, nickel, copper and zinc in agricu...
Haribondhu Sarma, Ishrat Jabeen, Sharmin Khan Luies, Md. Fakhar Uddin et al.
INTRODUCTION: BRAC, an international development organisation based in Bangladesh, uses female volunteer community health workers called Shasthya Shebika (SS), who receive small incentives to implement its home-fortification interventions at the community level. This paper examines the individual, c...
Haribondhu Sarma, Md. Fakhar Uddin, C. Harbour, Tahmeed Ahmed
BACKGROUND: Anemia is a major public health concern in Bangladesh, affecting about 51% of under-5 children. There are a number of strategies to overcome this micronutrient-deficiency burden, and home fortification (HF) with micronutrient powder (MNP) is one of them. OBJECTIVE: As part of an evaluati...
Kui Muraya, Michael Ogutu, Mercy Kadzo Mwadhi, Jennifer Mikusa et al.
BACKGROUND: In many African settings, gender strongly influences household treatment-seeking and decision-making for childhood illnesses. While mothers are often the primary engagers with health facilities, their independence in illness-related decisions is shaped by various factors. Drawing on a ge...
Haribondhu Sarma, Md. Fakhar Uddin, Mohammad Ashraful Islam, Mahfuzur Rahman et al.
OBJECTIVE: This paper focuses on the use of 'concurrent evaluation' to evaluate a nationally scaled-up programme in Bangladesh that was implemented by BRAC (an international development organisation) using Shasthya Shebika (SS) - volunteer community health workers - to promote home fortification wit...
Md. Fakhar Uddin, Sassy Molyneux, Kui Muraya, Md. Alamgir Hossain et al.
BACKGROUND: Post-hospital discharge mortality risk is high among young children in many low and middle-income countries (LMICs). The available literature suggests that child, caregiver and health care provider gender all play important roles in post-discharge adherence to medical advice, treatment-s...
Md. Fakhar Uddin, Ishrat Jabeen, Mohammad Ashraful Islam, Mahfuzur Rahman et al.
BACKGROUND: Breastfeeding practice is still not optimum in Bangladesh. Understanding barriers to breastfeeding is needed to prevent harmful practices. This study aimed to understand barriers to breastfeeding among infants and young children in Bangladesh. METHODS: This qualitative study was conducte...
Biplab Das, Md. Mamun Al-Amin, Nusrat Nabila Chowdhury, Md. Fakhar Uddin Majumder et al.
BACKGROUND: Our present study was carried out to explore the potential role of the methanol extract from the leavesof Phlogocanthus thyrsiflorus (PT) Nees. in central and peripheral analgesic activities using hot plate and acetic acid-induced writhing methods. We also tested the antiinflammatory eff...
Mohammad Ashraful Islam, Mahfuzur Rahman, Md. Fakhar Uddin, Md. Tariqujjaman et al.
BACKGROUND: Despite recent progress in rural economic development and food production, the prevalence of household food insecurity (FI) and use of unimproved toilet facilities are widespread in Bangladesh. Evidence regarding the consequencs of household FI and poor sanitation on child morbidity is s...
Md. Ohiduzzaman, Rajada Khatun, S. Reza, K. A. Khan et al.
The aim of present study was conducted to measure external radiation exposures at various distances from the middle body of the patient for various scan. A special type of Gamma camera is used to detect the radiations from patients for having images. In this study the observation was conducted on ab...
Md. Sohanur Rahman, M. N. Islam, Mohammad Sahin Polan, Fakhar Uddin Talukder et al.
Pesticides have been a major contributor to the growth of agricultural productivity and food supply. Pesticides were a key factor in significant agricultural productivity growth during the last century and continue to be a critical factor in reducing crop damage. Fifteen insecticides were investigat...
Rita Wanjuki Njeru, Md. Fakhar Uddin, Scholastica M. Zakayo, Gladys Sanga et al.
BACKGROUND: Undernourished children in low- and middle-income countries remain at elevated risk of death following hospital discharge, even when treated during hospitalisation using World Health Organisation recommended guidelines. The role of community health workers (CHWs) in supporting post-disch...
Fakhar Uddin, Hasan Kabir
Suicide is now a frequent event in Bangladesh. It is considered to be a deviant behavior. According to the latest WHO data published in April 2012 suicide deaths in Bangladesh reached 19,697 or 2.06 percent of total deaths. The age adjusted death rate is 13.52 per 1,00,000 of population ranks Bangla...
Meseret Gebre, Kassa Haile, Trevor Duke, Md. Tanveer Faruk et al.
BACKGROUND: The safety and efficacy of bubble continuous positive airway pressure (bCPAP) for treatment of childhood severe pneumonia outside tertiary care hospitals is uncertain. We did a cluster-randomised effectiveness trial of locally made bCPAP compared with WHO-recommended low-flow oxygen ther...
Meseret Gebre, Md. Fakhar Uddin, Trevor Duke, Kassa Haile et al.
BACKGROUND: In low and middle-income countries (LMICs), severe pneumonia with hypoxemia is the leading cause of child deaths, even with the provision of WHO-recommended antibiotic therapy, oxygen therapy and other supportive care. Previous studies found positive outcomes from the use of bubble conti...
Md. Ohiduzzaman, R Khatun, Salman Reza, Muhammad Abdul Kadir et al.
Thyroid uptake and scintigraphy using Tc-99m pertechnetate has proven to be more advantageous than with I-131 iodide, since the images have better quality, the procedure is faster and the patient is submitted to a lower radiation dose. Tc-99m has been used worldwide to study the thyroid function bec...
Tareque Aziz, Md. Kamrul Hassan, Fakhar Uddin Talukder, Md. Sohanur Rahman
The experiment was aimed to investigate the effect of different concentrations of chitosan on shelf life and quality of banana fruit. The single factor experiments were laid out in a completely randomized design with three replications. Experimental treatments included Control, 0.50%, 0.75%, 1.0%, 1...
Fakhar Uddin, Shanta Akter Mim, Md. Ahshanul Haque, Md. Tariquajjaman et al.
BACKGROUND: Child mortality remains remarkably high in many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), including Bangladesh. This study aimed to identify the sociodemographic and maternal health-related factors associated with under three (U3) child mortality in Bangladesh. METHODS: We extracted data...