Shiv Kumar Sarin, Manoj Kumar, George Lau, Zaigham Abbas et al.
Worldwide, some 240 million people have chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV), with the highest rates of infection in Africa and Asia. Our understanding of the natural history of HBV infection and the potential for therapy of the resultant disease is continuously improving. New data have become available ...
Durganand Sinha, Henry S. R. Kao
Introduction - Durganand Sinha and Henry S R Kao Values-Development Congruence PART ONE: SOCIAL VALUES AND DEVELOPMENT: GENERAL REVIEWS Basic Indian Values and Behaviour Dispositions in the Context of National Development - Durganand Sinha An ent An l Chinese Modernisation and Social Values - Lin Fa...
Lucy E. Marcil, Kaosar Afsana, Henry B. Perry
The processes for implementing effective programs at scale in low-income countries have not been well-documented in the peer-reviewed literature. This article describes the initial steps taken by one such program--the BRAC Manoshi Project, which now reaches a population of 6.9 million. The project h...
Nicholas R. R. Daniel, S. M. Mijan Uddin, R.J. Harper, David J. Henry
Soil water repellency affects vast regions of agricultural and native land across the globe. Sandy soils are most likely to develop non-wetting characteristics with susceptibility decreasing with clay content. This study uses molecular dynamics simulations combined with laboratory scale experiments ...
Seng Gee Lim, Deepak Amarapurkar, Henry Lik‐Yuen Chan, Dorothy H. Crawford et al.
Background There is considerable variation in reimbursement policies in Asian countries and this is likely to have an impact on treatment practice for chronic hepatitis B (CHB). Consequently a survey of leading hepatologists was performed to evaluate such policies and their impact on management of C...
Prakriti Shrestha, Kaosar Afsana, Manuj C. Weerasinghe, Henry B. Perry et al.
The growing health challenges in South Asia require further adaptations of community health worker (CHW) programs as a key element of primary health care (PHC). This paper provides a comparative analysis of CHW programs in five countries (Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka), examines ...
S. M. Mijan Uddin, R.J. Harper, David J. Henry
Soil water repellency (SWR) is an extensively occurring phenomenon on natural and agricultural soils with a severe impact on soil water relations and thus crop yields and ecosystem productivity. It is caused by long chain amphiphilic compounds that originate from plant cuticular waxes. However, the ...
Fakir Md Yunus, Anupom Das, Chowdhury Jalal, Kaosar Afsana et al.
Despite all efforts, iron deficiency (ID) and iron deficiency anaemia (IDA) among adolescent girls remains a public health concern for Bangladesh. The objective of the current analysis was to examine baseline data from an effectiveness trial with the aim to compare prevalence of anemia, ID and IDA w...
Bob Currie, Haider K. Nizamani, Amalendú Misra, Monica Bhanot et al.
Collaboration in International Rural Development: A Practitioner's Handbook. George H. Axinn and Nancy W. Axinn New Delhi: Sage, 1997 ISBN 0–7619–9201–4 (USA—pb); 81–7036–653–4 (India—pb) Brasstacks and Beyond: Perceptions and Management of Crisis in South Asia Kanti P. Bajpai, P. R. Chari, Pervaiz ...