Jessica Mitchell, Paul Cooke, Collins Ahorlu, Abriti Arjyal et al.
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a One Health problem underpinned by complex drivers and behaviours. This is particularly so in low - and middle-income countries (LMICs), where social and systemic factors fuel (mis)use and drive AMR. Behavioural change around antimicrobial use could safeguard both ...
Rumana Huque, Helen Elsey, Fariza Fieroze, Joseph Paul Hicks et al.
BACKGROUND: Understanding of the relationship between multi-drug resistant tuberculosis and mental health is limited. With growing prevalence of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis, addressing mental ill-health has potential to improve treatment outcomes and well-being. In several low and middle-incom...
Rebecca King, Joseph Paul Hicks, Christian Rassi, Muhammad Shafique et al.
BACKGROUND: Community engagement approaches that have impacted on health outcomes are often time intensive, small-scale and require high levels of financial and human resources. They can be difficult to sustain and scale-up in low resource settings. Given the reach of health services into communitie...
Jessica Mitchell, Helen Hawkings, Sophia Latham, Fariza Fieroze et al.
Background: Community engagement (CE) interventions often explore and promote behaviour change around a specific challenge. Suggestions for behaviour change should be co-produced in partnership with the community. To facilitate this, it is essential that the intervention includes key content that un...
Jessica Mitchell, Abriti Arjyal, Sushil Baral, Dani Barrington et al.
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a social and biological problem. Although resistance to antimicrobials is a natural phenomenon, many human behaviors are increasing the pressure on microbes to develop resistance which is resulting in many commonly used treatments becoming ineffective. These behavio...
Faraz Siddiqui, Ray Croucher, Fayaz Ahmad, Zarak Husain Ahmed et al.
INTRODUCTION: Smokeless tobacco (ST) is a significant South Asian public health problem. This paper reports a qualitative study of a sample of South Asian ST users. METHODS: Interviews, using a piloted topic guide, with 33 consenting, urban dwelling adult ST users explored their ST initiation, conti...
Helen Elsey, Fariza Fieroze, Riffat Ara Shawon, Shaikh Zinnat Ara Nasreen et al.
BACKGROUND: Centre-based child-care has potential to provide multiple health and development benefits to children, families and societies. With rapid urbanisation, increasing numbers of low-income women work with reduced support from extended family, leaving a child-care vacuum in many low- and midd...
Faraz Siddiqui, Mona Kanaan, Ray Croucher, Linda Bauld et al.
BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Smokeless tobacco (ST) use in South Asia is high, yet interventions to support its cessation are lacking. We tested the feasibility of delivering interventions for ST cessation in South Asia. DESIGN: We used a 2 × 2 factorial design, pilot randomized controlled trial with a dura...
Mahua Das, Helen Elsey, Riffat Ara Shawon, Joseph Paul Hicks et al.
INTRODUCTION: Lack of safe, stimulating and health-promoting environments for children under-5 hinders their physical, social and cognitive development, known as early childhood development (ECD). Improving ECD impacts on children, and can improve educational attainment for girls, who often care for...
Helen Elsey, Zunayed Al Azdi, Shophika Regmi, Sushil Baral et al.
BACKGROUND: Brief behavioural support can effectively help tuberculosis (TB) patients quit smoking and improve their outcomes. In collaboration with TB programmes in Bangladesh, Nepal and Pakistan, we evaluated the implementation and scale-up of cessation support using four strategies: (1) brief tob...
Masuma Pervin Mishu, Kamran Siddiqi, Ann McNeill, Mona Kanaan et al.
<ns3:p> <ns3:bold>Background:</ns3:bold> Smokeless tobacco (ST) use is common among youth in South Asia where 85% of the world’s 300 million ST users live and use the most lethal ST forms. Little is known about the impact of tobacco control policies on the youth ST uptake in those countries. We plan...
Rebecca King, Joseph Paul Hicks, Christian Rassi, Muhammad Shafique et al.
Masuma Pervin Mishu, Cath Jackson, Ann McNeill, Suneela Garg et al.
Most of the world's 300 million smokeless tobacco (ST) users live in South Asia but ST policies for that region are poorly researched, developed and implemented. Longitudinal studies to understand the uptake and use of ST and smoking, and influences on these, such as health promotion strategies, are...
Helen Elsey, Fariza Fieroze, Riffat Ara Shawon, Shammi Nasreen et al.
Background: Centre-based child-care has potential to provide multiple health and development benefits to children, families and societies. With rapid urbanisation, increasing numbers of low-income women work with reduced support from extended family, leaving a child-care vacuum in many low- and midd...
Rumana Huque, Helen Elsey, Fariza Fieroze, Joseph Paul Hicks et al.
Background Understanding of the relationship between multi-drug resistant tuberculosis and mental health is limited. With growing prevalence of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis, addressing mental ill-health has potential to improve treatment outcomes and well-being. In several low and middle-income...
Masuma Pervin Mishu, Kamran Siddiqi, Ann McNeill, Mona Kanaan et al.
<ns4:p> <ns4:bold>Background:</ns4:bold> Smokeless tobacco (ST) use is common among youth in South Asia where 85% of the world’s 300 million ST users live and use the most lethal ST forms. Little is known about the impact of tobacco control policies on the youth ST uptake in those countries. We plan...
Faraz Siddiqui, Fayaz Ahmad, Fariza Fieroze, Silwa Lina et al.
INTRODUCTION: Interventions for quitting smokeless tobacco are lacking in South Asia. In a pilot trial, we explored the feasibility of delivering and evaluating a culturally adapted behavioral intervention and/or nicotine replacement therapy in Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan. This article presents ...
Md Badruddin Saify, Nichola Jones, Fariza Fieroze, Jessica Mitchell et al.
Introduction Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a global problem and is especially threatening for low-and-middle income countries like Bangladesh. The COSTAR (Community-led Solutions to Antimicrobial Resistance) project includes a Randomised Control Trial (RCT) which aims to evaluate the effectivene...
Rebecca King, Joseph Paul Hicks, Christian Rassi, Muhammad Shafique et al.
Background Community engagement approaches that have impacted on health outcomes are often time intensive, small-scale and require high levels of financial and human resources. They can be difficult to sustain and scale-up in low resource settings. Given the reach of health services into communities...
Helen Elsey, Fariza Fieroze, Riffat Ara Shawon, Shammi Nasreen et al.
Abstract Background: Centre-based child-care has potential to provide multiple health and development benefits to children, families and societies. With rapid urbanisation, increasing numbers of low-income women work with reduced support from extended family, leaving a child-care vacuum in many low-...