Kausar Parvin, Sultana Naznin, Ruchira Tabassum Naved
BACKGROUND: Despite high prevalence of intimate partner violence (IPV) and its adverse social and health consequences, the rate of help seeking for IPV is generally low. Although the level of IPV is much higher in urban slums of Bangladesh, the level and nature of help seeking of the victims are unk...
Ruchira Tabassum Naved, Mahfuz Al Mamun, Kausar Parvin, Samantha Willan et al.
Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a huge public health, development and human rights issue worldwide. Despite the fact that working women in patriarchal contexts commonly report higher level of IPV, literature on this subject is still scanty. This paper assessed the magnitude of different types of ...
Kausar Parvin, Mahfuz Al Mamun, Andrew Gibbs, Rachel Jewkes et al.
BACKGROUND: The prevalence of intimate partner violence (IPV) is high (54%) in Bangladesh. Moreover, female garment workers report higher rates of IPV and are also vulnerable to workplace violence (WPV). Experience of violence puts women at increased risk of developing depressive symptoms, which are...
Ruchira Tabassum Naved, Mahfuz Al Mamun, Sanjida Akhter Mourin, Kausar Parvin
BACKGROUND: Bangladesh reports one of the highest rates of intimate partner violence (IPV) in the world. Despite wide recognition of IPV as an important public health and human rights issue, evidence for IPV prevention is still inadequate. Lack of guidance on effective IPV prevention in Bangladesh r...
Andrew Gibbs, Rachel Jewkes, Samantha Willan, Mahfuz Al Mamun et al.
Workplace violence (WPV) is widely reported in the Bangladeshi garment industry, impacting women workers' health and wellbeing. We explore factors associated with female workers experience or witnessing of WPV and perpetration by managers, in eight Bangladeshi garment factories. We hypothesise worke...
Ruchira Tabassum Naved, Sadhvi Kalra, Aloka Talukder, Anne Laterra et al.
PURPOSE: Despite international commitments and increases in education and economic opportunities for girls and young women, child marriage persists and, in some contexts, reductions have stagnated. In order to accelerate and sustain progress, a better understanding of the social norms that continue ...
Mahfuz Al Mamun, Kausar Parvin, Marat Yu, Jessica Wan et al.
BACKGROUND: Women in Bangladesh experience high rates of Intimate Partner Violence (IPV). IPV is more prevalent against income earning women compared to their non-earning counterparts, and Workplace Violence (WPV) is also common. Such violence is a violation of women's rights, and also constrains th...
Ruchira Tabassum Naved, Mahfuz Al Mamun, Kausar Parvin, Samantha Willan et al.
Background: Intimate partner violence (IPV) and workplace violence (WPV) against women are widespread globally, and we set out to establish whether an intervention on gender-transformative programming delivered to Bangladeshi garment factory workers could reduce women’s experience of IPV and WPV. We...
Shahnaj Parvin, Muhammad Kausar, Merajul Haque, Md Khalekuzzaman et al.
A rapid and efficient protocol is outlined for in vitro propagation of muskmelon(Cucumis melo L.) Shoot tips, nodal segments and cotyledonary nodes from invitro grown seedlings were used as explants. The explants were inoculated on MS medium fortified with different combinations and concentrations o...
Kathryn M. Yount, Cari J. Clark, Irina Bergenfeld, Zara Khan et al.
INTRODUCTION: Girl child, early and forced marriage (CEFM) persists in South Asia, with long-term consequences for girls. CARE's Tipping Point Initiative (TPI) addresses the causes of CEFM by challenging repressive gender norms and inequalities. The TPI engages different participant groups on progra...
Zachary Butzin-Dozier, Andrew Mertens, Sophia T. Tan, Douglas A. Granger et al.
BACKGROUND: Hundreds of millions of children in low- and middle-income countries are exposed to chronic stressors, such as poverty, poor sanitation and hygiene, and sub-optimal nutrition. These stressors can have physiological consequences for children and may ultimately have detrimental effects on ...
Jannatul Ferdous Antu, Kausar Parvin, Hasan Mahmud Sujan, Mahfuz Al Mamun et al.
Objectives: Bangladesh reports one of the highest rates of child marriage (CM) (59%) in the world and the highest rate within South Asia. Age at marriage of girls is a critical human rights and developmental issue in Bangladesh. Migration has been documented to be positively associated with age at m...
Audrie Lin, Andrew Mertens, Benjamin F. Arnold, Sophia T. Tan et al.
Background: Previously, we demonstrated that a water, sanitation, handwashing, and nutritional intervention improved linear growth and was unexpectedly associated with shortened childhood telomere length (TL) (Lin et al., 2017). Here, we assessed the association between TL and growth. Methods: We me...
Ruchira Tabassum Naved, Sultan Mahmud, Mahfuz Al Mamun, Kausar Parvin et al.
Background: Elimination of girl child marriage (CM) globally at the current pace is projected to take about 300 years. Thus, innovative and effective solutions are urgently warranted. Bangladesh reports one of the highest rates of CM in the world. We present the impact of Tipping Point Initiative (T...
Shirin Ziaei, Jannatul Ferdous Antu, Mahfuz Al Mamun, Kausar Parvin et al.
Despite the abundance of literature, longitudinal studies evaluating the factors associated with domestic violence (DV) at different stages and over longer periods of women’s lives are rare. We evaluated factors associated with physical and sexual DV during pregnancy, at 10-year, and 18-year follow-...