Sidney Ruth Schuler, Syed Hashemi, Ann P. Riley, Shireen Akhter
Although violence by men against women in Bangladesh occurs in most cases within the home, in a larger sense it does not originate in the home nor persist only within the home. It is simply one element in a system that subordinates women through social norms that define women's place and guide their...
Anand Joshi, Murari Lal Das, Shireen Akhter, Rajib Chowdhury et al.
BACKGROUND: Bangladesh, India and Nepal are working towards the elimination of visceral leishmaniasis (VL) by 2015. In 2005 the World Health Organization/Training in Tropical Diseases launched an implementation research programme to support integrated vector management for the elimination of VL from...
Suzanne Hanchett, Shireen Akhter, Mohidul Hoque Khan, Stephen Mezulianik et al.
This paper describes the WaterAid-supported programme of water, sanitation and hygiene education implemented by local NGOs in the “slums” of Bangladesh’s two largest cities, Dhaka and Chittagong. This includes descriptions of the design and management of community-managed water points and sanitation...
M H Imam, MR Karim, C Ferdous, Shireen Akhter
Identifying the level of health related quality of life (HQoL) and their influencing factors in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) positive people is of extreme importance in implementing an interventional program to support this group. This cross sectional study was an attempt to determine the leve...
Rajib Chowdhury, Ellen Dotson, Anna J. Blackstock, Shannon McClintock et al.
Integrated vector management is a pillar of the South Asian visceral leishmaniasis (VL) elimination program, but the best approach remains a matter of debate. Sand fly seasonality was determined in 40 houses sampled monthly. The impact of interventions on Phlebotomus argentipes density was tested fr...
Rajib Chowdhury, Vashkar Chowdhury, Shyla Faria, Md Saiful Islam et al.
BACKGROUND: Visceral leishmaniasis (VL) in the Indian subcontinent is a fatal disease if left untreated. Between 1994 to 2013, the Ministry of Health of Bangladesh reported 1,09,266 cases of VL and 329 VL related deaths in 37 endemic districts. Indoor residual spraying (IRS) using dichlorodiphenyltr...
M. Mamun Huda, Dinesh Mondal, Vijay Kumar, Pradeep Das et al.
Background. We field tested and validated a newly developed monitoring and evaluation (M&E) toolkit for indoor residual spraying to be used by the supervisors at different levels of the national kala-azar elimination programs in Bangladesh, India and Nepal. Methods. Methods included document analysi...
Rajib Chowdhury, Shyla Faria, M. Mamun Huda, Vashkar Chowdhury et al.
BACKGROUND: A number of studies on visceral leishmaniasis (VL) vector control have been conducted during the past decade, sometimes came to very different conclusion. The present study on a large sample investigated different options which are partially unexplored including: (1) indoor residual spra...
S. Manjura Hoque, M. A. Hakim, Md Al- Mamun, Shireen Akhter et al.
Nanocrystalline Magnesium ferrite has been prepared by chemical co-precipitation technique. Structural characterization has been performed by X-ray diffraction. Formation of ferrites has also been studied by using FTIR. Frequency dependence of real and imaginary part of initial permeability has been...
Suzanne Hanchett, Shireen Akhter, Mohidul Hoque Khan, Summarized By Stephen Mezulianik et al.
Rajib Chowdhury, Vashkar Chowdhury, Shyla Faria, Sakila Akter et al.
BACKGROUND: Visceral leishmaniasis (VL) is a parasitic disease, transmitted by the sand fly species Phlebotomus argentipes in the Indian sub-continent. Effective vector control is highly desirable to reduce vector density and human and vector contact in the endemic communities with the aim to curtai...
Shahida Akhter, Deba Prasad Paul, Md. Abdul Hakim, Shireen Akhter et al.
Cu-Zn ferrite with general formula of Cu1-xZnxFe2 O4 with a range from x = 0.0 to 0.7 (in steps of 0.1) was prepared by using standard ceramic techniques. The confirmation of sin-gle-phase formation was carried out by employing X-ray diffraction technique. Some of the magnetic properties were measur...
S. Manjura Hoque, A.K.M. Rezaul Haque, Md. Obaidur Rahman, Nguyen Hoang Nghi et al.
M. Mahbubur Rahman, Md Shahin Sheak, Soheli Pervin, Nasir Uddin et al.
Polycrystalline spinel MgxZn0.3Cu0.7-2xFe2+xO4, where x = 0.10, 0.20, 0.25, 0.30 and 0.35 ferrites (hereafter abbreviated as Mg-Zn) have been prepared by conventional double sintering technique. The samples were sintered at 1250°C in air for 6 hours. Measurements have been done at temperature and fr...
Quazi Shireen Akhter Jahan, Ziniya Sultana, Md. Asad Ud-Daula, Md. Ashikuzzaman et al.
Rice bakanae, a devastating seed-borne disease caused by Fusarium species requires a more attractive and eco-friendly management strategy. The optimization of plant-mediated silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) as nanofungicides by targeting Fusarium species may be a rational approach. In this study, Azadir...