Jena Hamadani, Fahmida Tofail, A Hilaly, Syed Nazmul Huda et al.
Poor stimulation in the home is one of the main factors affecting the development of children living in poverty. The family care indicators (FCIs) were developed to measure home stimulation in large populations and were derived from the Home Observations for Measurement of the Environment (HOME). Th...
Jena Hamadani, Syed Nazmul Huda, Fahmida Khatun, Sally Grantham‐McGregor
Undernutrition in early childhood is associated with poor mental development and affects 45% of children in Bangladesh. Although limited evidence shows that psychosocial stimulation can reduce the deficits, no such interventions have been reported from Bangladesh. The Bangladesh Integrated Nutrition...
Jena Hamadani, Fahmida Tofail, Syed Nazmul Huda, Dewan S Alam et al.
OBJECTIVE: We aimed to determine the timing and size of the cognitive deficit associated with poverty in the first 5 years of life and to examine the role of parental characteristics, pre- and postnatal growth, and stimulation in the home in Bangladeshi children. We hypothesized that the effect of p...
John D. Clemens, Malla Rao, Faruque Ahmed, Robyn L. Ward et al.
PURPOSE: To assess the relationship between breast-feeding and the risk of life-threatening rotavirus diarrhea among Bangladeshi infants and children younger than 24 months of age. DESIGN: Case-control study. SETTING: A rural Bangladesh community. PARTICIPANTS: One hundred two cases with clinically ...
Jena Hamadani, S. M. Grantham‐McGregor, Fahmida Tofail, Barbro Nermell et al.
BACKGROUND: Exposure to arsenic through drinking water has been associated with impaired cognitive function in school-aged children in cross-sectional studies; however, there are few longitudinal studies and little information on effects of exposure in early life when the brain is generally most vul...
Fahmida Tofail, Marie Vahter, Jena Hamadani, Barbro Nermell et al.
BACKGROUND: Exposure to arsenic-contaminated drinking water during pregnancy is associated with low birth weight and fetal loss, and there is concern that the infants' development may be affected. OBJECTIVE: We assessed the effects of in utero arsenic exposure during pregnancy on infants' problem-so...
Syed Nazmul Huda, Sally Grantham‐McGregor, Khan M. Rahman, Andrew Tomkins
Iodine deficiency in pregnancy leads to poor cognitive function in the offspring; however, the effect of concurrent iodine deficiency on school-aged children is not clear. Several studies have shown that school children in iodine-deficient villages have poorer cognitive function than children in iod...
JD Clemens, M. John Albert, Malla Rao, Firdausi Qadri et al.
To evaluate the relationship between Helicobacter pylori infection and the subsequent risk and severity of endemic Vibrio cholerae O1 diarrhea among rural Bangladeshis, 285 children and adults with cholera (cases) and 881 contemporaneously selected community controls were studied. Cases and controls...
Shams El Arifeen, Samir K. Saha, Sayedur Rahman, Kazi Mizanur Rahman et al.
BACKGROUND: Streptococcus pneumoniae infection is recognized as a global priority public health problem, and conjugate vaccines have been shown to prevent vaccine-type invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) in children. However, better estimates of the disease burden and reliable population-based data ...
Syed Nazmul Huda, Sally Grantham‐McGregor, Andrew Tomkins
Iodine supplementation before pregnancy in iodine-deficient women prevents cretinism and neuromotor deficits in their offspring. It is unclear whether iodine supplementation benefits cognitive function in iodine-deficient school-aged children. We therefore conducted a double-blind, randomized, contr...
Jena Hamadani, Baitun Nahar, Syed Nazmul Huda, Fahmida Tofail
Bangladesh is one of the poorest countries of the world with the highest population density. The Bangladesh government recognizes the educational and financial benefits of early childhood development (ECD) and has incorporated ECD into the national plan of action. However, ECD activities are not ful...
Lynn McIntyre, Krista Rondeau, Sharon I. Kirkpatrick, Jennifer Hatfield et al.
Ultra poor women in Bangladesh are especially vulnerable to poverty and food insecurity, and they have generally been excluded from recent improvements in hunger and poverty rates in the country. An examination of the food provisioning narratives of 43 ultra poor female heads of household in Banglad...
Abu-Hena Mostofa Kamal, Dr Md. Nazmul Huda, Dr Colleen Anne Dell, Syeda Zakia Hossain et al.
The highly contagious SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) pandemic has affected 213 countries and territories and six continents as of 1st June 2020. The World Health Organization (WHO) has identified this highly pathogenic outbreak as posing a severe health threat to the global population. The disease is particu...
Md. Nazmul Huda, Tewodros Getachew Hailemariam, Syeda Zakia Hossain, James Sujit Malo et al.
INTRODUCTION: Medical waste management (MWM)-related factors affecting the health of medical waste handlers (MWHs) and their health risks in low and middle-income countries (LMICs) are an important public health concern. Although studies of MWM-related factors and health risks among MWHs in LMICs ar...
Md. Nazmul Huda, Syeda Zakia Hossain, Tinashe Dune, A. S. M. Amanullah et al.
In Bangladesh, traffickers have trapped socially and economically marginalised girls and women and sold them into sex work. Furthermore, multiple sociocultural factors shape women's forced and voluntary movement into sex work. However, there are limited peer-reviewed studies of how sex work operator...