Sukanta Paul, Rahima Akter, Afzal Aftab, Antora Mahmud Khan et al.
BACKGROUND: Bangladesh National Tuberculosis (TB) Control Programme adopted a number of strategies to facilitate TB diagnosis and treatment. 'Advocacy, Communication and Social Mobilization' (ACSM) was one of the key strategies implemented by BRAC (Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee, a non-gover...
Malabika Sarker, Mrittika Barua, Fiona Guerra, Avijit Saha et al.
BACKGROUND: Diabetes among tuberculosis patients increases the risk of tuberculosis treatment failure, death, and development of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis. Yet, there is no data is available in Bangladesh on the prevalence of diabetes among tuberculosis patients. The objective of the current ...
Mrittika Barua, Sayantan Chowdhury, Avijit Saha, Chand Mia et al.
BACKGROUND: Delays in seeking timely maternity care from health care professionals are crucial to address among the Rohingya population where many preventable pregnancy-related deaths occur within the camps when care is not sought. To address the challenges related to the referral of emergency and r...
Mrittika Barua, Francien van Driel, Willy Jansen
When they do not meet norms related to sexuality and reproduction, Bangladeshi women often face abandonment and are thus deprived of an active sexual life, a marital relationship, and motherhood. Little is known about how a stigmatised disease such as tuberculosis (TB) may constrain the reproductive...
Malabika Sarker, Fahmida Homayra, Mrittika Barua, Sukanta Paul et al.
Tuberculosis (TB) remains a major public health problem in Bangladesh. The present study focused on identifying TB risk determinants in Bangladesh. An age-sex matched casecontrol study was conducted with each stratum consisting of one case and two controls. This study covered six divisions of Bangla...
Abdullah Al Masud, Ramesh Walpola, Malabika Sarker, Alamgir Kabir et al.
Introduction: Antimicrobial resistance (AMR), a transboundary health issue, critically impacting low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) where 80% of antibiotics are used in the community, with 20-50% being inappropriate. Southeast-Asia, including Bangladesh, faces heightened AMR risk due to subopt...
Malabika Sarker, Puspita Hossain, Syeda Tahmina Ahmed, Mrittika Barua et al.
Universal Health Coverage (UHC) and Global Health Security (GHS) activities encompass mitigation of risks to health and well-being rights posed by infectious disease outbreaks and facilitated by health promotion (HP) activities. This case study investigated Bangladesh's readiness and capacity to 'pr...
Lucie Clech, Juan Pablo Sierra, Muhammad Abdul Mannan, Mollah M. Shamsul Kabir et al.
Bangladesh is one of the countries most affected by climate change. Internal migration is often presented as a response to environmental degradation. Here, using a people-centred perspective, we explore the complexity of the links between climate-induced change, environmental degradation caused by w...
Sharmin Akter Shitol, Avijit Saha, Mrittika Barua, Kazi Md Saleheen Towhid et al.
Background: As childhood tuberculosis is difficult to identify and diagnose, the experiences of the caregivers and healthcare providers of childhood tuberculosis patients remain a potential area of study. This study aims to illustrate the challenges caregivers and healthcare providers encounter in i...
Mrittika Barua, Avijit Saha, Srizan Chowdhury, Sayantan Chowdhury et al.
Introduction: The delay in seeking emergency obstetric care leads to significant maternal morbidity and mortality and can worsen during pandemics, especially in humanitarian conflict settings with low uptake of obstetric services. To mitigate the challenges related to the second delay caused by lack...
Mrittika Barua, Francien van Driel
There is scant information on the instructions provided by health workers to patients diagnosed with tuberculosis and the implications these instructions have for sexual and reproductive health and rights and tuberculosis control in Bangladesh. This paper aims to draw attention to tuberculosis contr...
Abdullah Masud, Ramesh Walpola, Malabika Sarker, Alamgir Kabir et al.
<title>Abstract</title> <bold>Background</bold> Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) poses significant health threats for low-and-middle-income countries (LMICs) and 80% of antibiotics are used in the community, with 20–50% inappropriate use. Southeast Asia, including Bangladesh, faces higher AMR risk due...
Sharmin Akter Shitol, Ishrat Binte Aftab, Prabhath Piyasena, Lynne Lohfeld et al.
INTRODUCTION: Presbyopia, difficulty in seeing close-ups, affects a billion people globally. Mobile financial services (MFS) have been mandated since January 2021 for Bangladesh government social safety net payments, including old age allowance (OAA) and widow allowance (WA). We report the protocol ...
Lucie Clech, Mrittika Barua, Alain Casseus, Sofia Meister et al.
Key Messages1. Analy sis of the role of health systems in the relationship between climate change and population health is essential but still neglected in studies and practice.2. The challenges of establishing an integrative conceptual framework for studying the role of the health care system in th...
Valéry Ridde, Mrittika Barua, Emmanuel Bonnet, Alain Casseus et al.
The analysis of health system resilience has progressed significantly, yet there remains a wide diversity in the conceptual frameworks used. The ClimHB conceptual framework, developed in 2019, integrates two influential models: the Levesque model of healthcare access and DFID's resilience framework....
Lucie Clech, Juan Pablo Sierra, Muhammad Abdul Mannan, Mollah M. Shamsul Kabir et al.
Bangladesh is one of the countries most affected by climate change. Internal migration is often presented as a response to environmental degradation in rural areas. Here, we hypothesise that climate-induced changes and adaptations impact local production and the local labour market, seasonally pushi...
Astrid Berner-Rodoreda, Shannon A. McMahon, Nir Eyal, Puspita Hossain et al.
Individual informed consent is a central requirement for clinical research on human subjects, yet whether and how consent requirements should apply to health policy experiments (HPEs) remains unclear. HPEs test and evaluate public health policies prior to implementation. We interviewed 58 health exp...
Valéry Ridde (91938), Mrittika Barua (3307974), Emmanuel Bonnet (2226715), Alain Casseus (7902869) et al.
<div> The analysis of health system resilience has advanced considerably, yet a wide range of conceptual frameworks continues to be employed. The ClimHB conceptual framework, developed in 2019, combines two influential models: the Levesque model of healthcare access and the DFID’s resilience framewo...
Valéry Ridde (91938), Mrittika Barua (3307974), Emmanuel Bonnet (2226715), Alain Casseus (7902869) et al.
<div> The analysis of health system resilience has advanced considerably, yet a wide range of conceptual frameworks continues to be employed. The ClimHB conceptual framework, developed in 2019, combines two influential models: the Levesque model of healthcare access and the DFID’s resilience framewo...
Valéry Ridde (91938), Mrittika Barua (3307974), Emmanuel Bonnet (2226715), Alain Casseus (7902869) et al.
ClimHB conceptual framework adapted to the case study of Bangladesh.