Mohammad Sorowar Hossain, Enayetur Raheem, Tanvira Afroze Sultana, Shameema Ferdous et al.
Thalassemias are emerging as a global public health concern. Due to remarkable success in the reduction of childhood mortality by controlling infectious diseases in developing countries, thalassemias are likely to be a major public health concern in the coming decades in South Asia. Despite the fact...
Md. Burhan Kabir Suhan, S.M. Tanveer Mahtab, Wafi Aziz, Sonia Akter et al.
The presence of dyes in effluents discharged from the textile industries is one of the major concerns of water-living organisms. This study aimed at investigating the Fenton degradation of Sudan black B (SBB) dye in an aqueous solution. The effects of initial dye concentration, Fe2+ concentration, a...
Sonia Akter, Roy Brouwer, Saria Choudhury, Salina Aziz
Omara Dogar, Ada Keding, Rhian Gabe, Anna‐Marie Marshall et al.
BACKGROUND: Smoking cessation is important in patients with tuberculosis because it can reduce the high rates of treatment failure and mortality. We aimed to assess the effectiveness and safety of cystine as a smoking cessation aid in patients with tuberculosis in Bangladesh and Pakistan. METHODS: W...
Sonia Aziz, Kevin Boyle, Mahfuzar Rahman
Widespread contamination of arsenic in Bangladesh has been jeopardizing the health of millions of people. Residents of Matlab, Bangladesh, are among the millions at risk. Using bivariate models in the analysis of survey data, knowledge of health risks and avoidance of arsenic exposure in response to...
Sonia Akter, Roy Brouwer, P.J.H. van Beukering, Laura French et al.
This paper aims to contribute to the debate on the feasibility of the provision of micro flood insurance as an effective tool for spreading disaster risks in developing countries and examines the role of the institutional-organisational framework in assisting the design and implementation of such a ...
Jie Liu, Paul F. Garcia Bardales, Kamrul Islam, Sheikh Jarju et al.
Abstract Background Quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) targeting ipaH has been proven to be highly efficient in detecting Shigella in clinical samples compared to culture-based methods, which underestimate Shigella burden by 2- to 3-fold. qPCR assays have also been developed for Shigella ...
Sonia Binte Wahed, Colin R. Dunstan, Philip Boughton, Andrew J. Ruys et al.
The selection of biomaterials as biomedical implants is a significant challenge. Ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene (UHMWPE) and composites of such kind have been extensively used in medical implants, notably in the bearings of the hip, knee, and other joint prostheses, owing to its biocompati...
Melanie Boeckmann, Sahil Khan Warsi, Maryam Noor, Omara Dogar et al.
Smoking worsens tuberculosis (TB) outcomes. Persons with TB who smoke can benefit from smoking cessation. We report findings of a multi-country qualitative process evaluation assessing barriers and facilitators to implementation of smoking cessation behaviour support in TB clinics in Bangladesh and ...
Sonia Akter, Roy Brouwer, Saria Chowdhury, Salina Aziz et al.
The paper presents empirical evidence of the determinants of catastrophe insurance participation in one of the poorest and most disaster prone countries in the world. In a large-scale household survey carried out in 2006 we ask 3,000 residents in six different districts in Bangladesh facing various ...
Emily L. Pakhtigian, Sonia Aziz, Kevin Boyle, A. S. Akanda et al.
In Bangladesh, cholera poses a significant environmental health risk. Yet, information about the severity of cholera risk is limited as risk varies over time and changing weather patterns make historical cholera risk predictions less reliable. In this paper, we examine how households use geographica...
Md. Azizur Rahman, Sadika Haque, M. A. Islam, A. K. Paul et al.
Sonia Aziz, Kevin Boyle, Tom Crocker
Arsenic contamination of groundwater in Bangladesh is a widespread public health hazard. Water sources without high arsenic levels are scarce, affecting people's availability for work and other activities when they have to seek safe water to drink. While children are particularly susceptible to chro...
Maha Alsubhi, Lydia Aston, Julie Ayre, Saadia A. Aziz et al.
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Sonia Aziz, K M Aziz
The focus of this research is to present a theoretical model of averting actions that households take to avoid exposure to Yersinia enterocolitica in contaminated food. The cost of illness approach only takes into account the value of a cure, while the averting behavior approach can estimate the val...