Bangladesh and Health
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- Delivering the goods: how to ensure equitable access to family planning for the poorest
- A. Karim; D. Sarley; D. O’Brien; D. Aronovich / Deliver, 2004
- This policy briefing from DELIVER focuses on how to ensure equitable access to and use of family planning services and resources in developing countries. The authors refer to analyses of nationally representative data from demographic...
- Is Asia losing the fight against hunger?
- Gerard J. Gill; John Farrington; Edward Anderson; Cecilia Luttrell; Tim Conway; N.C. Saxena; Rachel Slater / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003
- The first Millennium Development Goal (MDG) seeks to halve the proportion of people suffering from hunger. In the Asia-Pacific region only seven developing countries are on track. Almost two-thirds of the world’s undernourished l...
- Respect, diversity and community participation key in HIV prevention amongst sex workers
- C. Evans / World Health Organization, 2004
- This WHO toolkit is intended as a resource to guide the development and implementation of effective HIV interventions in diverse sex work settings and is aimed at anyone who works in HIV prevention in these settings. The first section...
- Causes of absenteeism in public health workers and teachers in eight countries
- N. Chaudhury; J. Hammer; H. Rogers; K. Muralidharan; M. Kremer / World Bank, 2004
- This paper looks at the incidence and causes of absenteeism in public health workers and teachers in eight countries. Research was based on unannounced visits to a random sample of health care facilities and schools. The countries vis...
- Including men's reproductive health in family planning services proves cost-effective in Bangladesh
- Population Council, USA, 2004
- This paper from the Population Council reports on a project in Bangladesh which integrated male reproductive health services into traditionally female-focused health and family welfare centres. Training was given to service providers ...
- Guidelines on the IMCI could make significant contribution to mortality reduction
- S. Gove / World Health Organization, 1997
- This article, published in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization, describes the technical basis for the guidelines for the integrated management of childhood illness (IMCI), which are presented in the WHO/UNICEF training cours...
- Collaboration is key to control of malaria, kala-azar and Japanese encephalitis in South Asia
- E. Brantly; P. Wijeyaratne; D. Singh; S. Pandey / Environmental Health Project, 2004
- This report from the Environmental Health Project (EHP) documents a programme for improving surveillance and control of malaria, Japanese encephalitis (JE), and kala-azar. The programme involved bilateral and regional co-operation bet...
- Information exchange needed to stop the spread of drug-resistant malaria in South Asia
- P.M. Wijeyaratne; N. Valecha; A.B. Joshi; D. Singh; S. Pandey / Environmental Health Project, 2004
- This inventory from the Environmental Health Project (EHP) documents information on drug resistant malaria in Bangladesh, Bhutan, India and Nepal (BBIN). Findings show that high-risk Bangladesh has a defined strategy for early diagnos...
- Collection of articles on nutrition and achieving the MDGs
- United Nations [UN] Standing Committee on Nutrition, 2003
- This paper brings together a collection of articles from the symposium ‘mainstreaming nutrition for improved development outcomes’. The Symposium focused on efforts to mainstream nutrition and accelerate progress in achievin...
- Reproductive health status of youth in Asia and the Near East
- K. Hardee; P. Pine; L. Taggart Wasson / Policy Project, Futures Group, Washington, 2004
- This paper presents the findings of a series of assessments of adolescent and youth reproductive health conducted by the Policy Project in 13 countries in the Asia and Near East (ANE) region. The countries include Egypt, Jordan, Moroc...
- Chars Livelihoods Programme (CLP)
- The Chars Livelihoods Programme (CLP) works with extreme poor households living on island chars in north western Bangladesh, and aims to improve the livelihoods of over one million people. The CLP is jointly funded by UKaid through the Department for International Development and the Australian Government (AusAID), sponsored by the Rural Development and Co-operatives Division of the Government of...
- Unnayan Onneshan
- The Institute aims to advance critical scholarship, promote inter-disciplinary dialogue and amplify grassroots perspectives in collaboration with national partners, international organisations and leading universities. The philosophy, ideas and actions of the organisation focus on pluralistic, participatory and sustainable development and seek to challenge the narrow theoretical and pol...
- International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B)
- Research and training on health, population and nutrition in Bangladesh
- Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition (JHPN)
- The quarterly Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition (incorporating the Journal of Diarrhoeal Diseases Research) publishes articles on maternal, child and family health and related issues of population and nutrition that are relevant to developing countries. Issues of fertility, child spacing, maternal and child nutrition, and specific common illnesses are integrally related to overall hea...
- Centre for Health and Population Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B)
- International centre for health research based in Bangladesh
