Iqbal Kabir, Mansura Khanam, Kingsley Agho, Seema Mihrshahi et al.
Suboptimal and inappropriate complementary feeding practices are one of the major causes of child undernutrition in the first 2 years of life in South Asian countries including Bangladesh. The aim of this study was to use the newly developed World Health Organization infant feeding indicators to ide...
Upul Senarath, Kingsley Agho, Dure‐Samin Akram, Sanjeeva Godakandage et al.
Improving infant and young child feeding practices will help South Asian countries achieve the Millennium Development Goal of reducing child mortality. This paper aims to compare key indicators of complementary feeding and their determinants in children aged 6-23 months across five South Asian count...
Seema Mihrshahi, Iqbal Kabir, Roy Sk, Kingsley Agho et al.
BACKGROUND: In Bangladesh, poor infant and young child feeding practices are contributing to the burden of infectious diseases and malnutrition. Objective. To estimate the determinants of selected feeding practices and key indicators of breastfeeding and complementary feeding in Bangladesh. METHODS:...
Tanvir Abir, Kingsley Agho, Andrew N. Page, Abul Hasnat Milton et al.
Objective The aim of this study was to identify factors associated with mortality in children under 5 years of age using a nationally representative sample of singleton births for the period of 2004–2011. Design, setting and participants Pooled 2004, 2007 and 2011 cross-sectional data sets of the Ba...
Seema Mihrshahi, Naomi Ichikawa, Muhammad Shuaib, Wendy H. Oddy et al.
The objective of this study was to investigate the association between the prevalence of exclusive breastfeeding and morbidity (diarrhoeal diseases and acute respiratory infection) in infants aged 0-3 month(s) using the Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) 2003 data from Bangladesh. The study po...
Tanvir Huda, Morseda Chowdhury, Shams El Arifeen, Michael J. Dibley
INTRODUCTION: Improving maternal health remains one of the targets of sustainable development goals. A maternal death can occur at any time during pregnancy, but delivery is by far the most dangerous time for both the woman and her baby. Delivery at a health facility can avoid most maternal deaths o...
Tanvir Huda, Alison Hayes, Shams El Arifeen, Michael J. Dibley
Socioeconomic inequalities in child undernutrition remain one of the main challenges in Bangladesh. The social determinants of health are mostly responsible for such inequalities across different population groups. However, no study has examined the relative contribution of different social determin...
Michael J. Dibley, Roy Sk, Upul Senarath, Archana Patel et al.
BACKGROUND: Information on infant and young child feeding is widely available in Demographic and Health Surveys and National Family Health Surveys for countries in South Asia; however, infant and young child feeding indicators from these surveys have not been compared between countries in the region...
Shahreen Raihana, Michael J. Dibley, Mohammad Masudur Rahman, Tazeen Tahsina et al.
BACKGROUND: In Bangladesh, neonatal sepsis is the cause of 24% of neonatal deaths, over 65% of which occur in the early-newborn stage (0-6 days). Only 50% of newborns in Bangladesh initiated breastfeeding within 1 hour of birth. The mechanism by which early initiation of breastfeeding reduces neonat...
Upul Senarath, Michael J. Dibley
South Asian region has the highest global burden of child undernutrition, with almost 41% of children stunted, 16% wasted and 33% underweight. Improved feeding of children less than 2 years of age is particularly important because they experience rapid growth and development, and are vulnerable to i...
Wajiha Khatun, Sabrina Rasheed, Ashraful Alam, Tanvir Huda et al.
Short maternal stature is identified as a strong predictor of offspring undernutrition in low and middle-income countries. However, there is limited information to confirm an intergenerational link between maternal and under-five undernutrition in Bangladesh. Therefore, this study aimed to assess th...
Ashraful Alam, Sabrina Rasheed, Nazib Uz Zaman Khan, Tamanna Sharmin et al.
BACKGROUND: The study objective was to understand community preparedness for iron and folic acid (IFA) supplementation early in pregnancy and to inform the design of a large-scale trial of early introduction of IFA supplementation in rural Bangladesh. METHODS: 66 in-depth interviews (pregnant women,...
Nadia Akseer, Emily C Keats, Pravheen Thurairajah, Simon Cousens et al.
BACKGROUND: Adolescence is a critical period of maturation when nutrient needs are high, especially among adolescents entering pregnancy. Using individual-level data from 140,000 participants, we examined socioeconomic, nutrition, and pregnancy and birth outcomes for adolescent mothers (10-19 years)...
Sheikh Jamal Hossain, Rajib Biswas, I Kabir, Shafiqul Alam Sarker et al.
<h3>Abstract</h3> <b>Objective:</b> To evaluate the efficacy of a single large oral dose of vitamin A in treating acute shigellosis in children in Bangladesh. <b>Design:</b> Randomised double blind controlled clinical trial. <b>Setting:</b> Dhaka Hospital, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease...
Gulshan Ara, Mansura Khanam, Nowshin Papri, Baitun Nahar et al.
This study aimed to evaluate the impact of peer counselling on early initiation of breastfeeding (EIBF) and exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) rates for mother-infant pairs living in urban slums, Dhaka, Bangladesh. This randomized controlled trial enrolled 350 mother-infant pairs from selected slums betw...