Jill Luoto, Nusrat Najnin, Minhaj Mahmud, Jeff Albert et al.
BACKGROUND: There is evidence that household point-of-use (POU) water treatment products can reduce the enormous burden of water-borne illness. Nevertheless, adoption among the global poor is very low, and little evidence exists on why. METHODS: We gave 600 households in poor communities in Dhaka, B...
Nusrat Najnin, Catherine Bennett, Stephen P. Luby
Fever is an easily-recognizable primary sign for many serious childhood infections. In Bangladesh, 31% of children aged less than five years (under-five children) die from serious infections, excluding confirmed acute respiratory infections or diarrhoea. Understanding healthcare-seeking behaviour fo...
Nuhu Amin, Amy J. Pickering, Pavani K. Ram, Leanne Unicomb et al.
We conducted a randomized, non-inferiority field trial in urban Dhaka, Bangladesh among mothers to compare microbial efficacy of soapy water (30 g powdered detergent in 1.5 L water) with bar soap and water alone. Fieldworkers collected hand rinse samples before and after the following washing regime...
Jill Luoto, Minhaj Mahmud, Jeff Albert, Stephen P. Luby et al.
Low-cost point-of-use (POU) safe water products have the potential to reduce waterborne illness, but adoption by the global poor remains low. We performed an eight-month randomized trial of four low-cost household water treatment products in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Intervention households (n = 600) recei...
Kona Chowdhury, Mainul Haque, Nadia Nusrat, Nihad Adnan et al.
There is an increasing focus on researching children admitted to hospital with new variants of COVID-19, combined with concerns with hyperinflammatory syndromes and the overuse of antimicrobials. Paediatric guidelines have been produced in Bangladesh to improve their care. Consequently, the objectiv...
Nusrat Najnin, Karin Leder, Firdausi Qadri, Andrew Forbes et al.
Background: Information on the impact of hygiene interventions on severe outcomes is limited. As a pre-specified secondary outcome of a cluster-randomized controlled trial among >400 000 low-income residents in Dhaka, Bangladesh, we examined the impact of cholera vaccination plus a behaviour change ...
Stephen P. Luby, Amal Halder, Samir K. Saha, Aliya Naheed et al.
We piloted a low-cost approach to measure the disease burden of Streptococcus pneumoniae, Hib and Salmonella Typhi by leveraging the existing infrastructure of high performing microbiology laboratories at two large paediatric hospitals in Dhaka Bangladesh, and assessing the hospital utilization of t...
Nusrat Najnin, Karin Leder, Andrew Forbes, Leanne Unicomb et al.
We assessed the impact of handwashing promotion on reported respiratory illness as a secondary outcome from among > 60,000 low-income households enrolled in a cluster-randomized trial conducted in Bangladesh. Ninety geographic clusters were randomly allocated into three groups: cholera-vaccine-on...
Wit Wichaidit, Shwapon Biswas, Farzana Begum, Farzana Yeasmin et al.
OBJECTIVE: The behavioural effect of large-scale handwashing promotion programmes has been infrequently evaluated, and variation in the effect over time has not been described. We assess the effect of a large-scale handwashing promotion programme on handwashing outcomes in a community setting in Dha...
Nusrat Najnin, Shaila Arman, Jaynal Abedin, Leanne Unicomb et al.
OBJECTIVE: To assess sustained siphon filter usage among a low-income population in Bangladesh and study relevant motivators and barriers. METHODS: After a randomised control trial in Bangladesh during 2009, 191 households received a siphon water filter along with educational messages. Researchers r...
Nusrat Najnin, Karin Leder, Andrew Forbes, Leanne Unicomb et al.
To explore the consistency in impact evaluation based on reported diarrhea, we compared diarrhea data collected through two different surveys and with observed diarrhea-associated hospitalization for children aged ≤ 5 years from a non-blinded cluster-randomized trial conducted over 2 years in urban ...
Partha Sarathi Singha, Humaira Naushaba, Nusrat Rumman Mowtoshee, AHM Mazharul Islam et al.
Context: Facial Anthropometry is affected by geographical, racial, ethnical, gender and age factor. Facial phenotype is modified in several genomic and chromosomal alteration. Anthropometric study plays an important role in distinguishing pure race from local mingling of races. Anthropometric data i...