Vanessa Lee, Faruk Ahmed, Shoko Wada, Tahmeed Ahmed et al.
OBJECTIVE: To investigate the prevalence of vitamin A deficiency (VAD) among pregnant women in rural Bangladesh, and examine the relationship between various factors and vitamin A status. SETTING: Community Nutrition Promoter (CNP) centres in Kapasia sub-district of Gazipur district, Bangladesh. DES...
Sheikh Ariful Hoque, Hiroo Hoshino, Kazi Selim Anwar, Atsushi Tanaka et al.
The postnatal transmission of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) from mothers to children occurs through breastfeeding. Although heat treatment of expressed breast milk is a promising approach to make breastfeeding safer, it is still not popular, mainly because the recommended procedures are difficu...