Bangladesh and Health
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- HIV Infection in Infants and Children - An Updated Review
- S Ishrat 2010
- The first cases of Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) were reported in United States in 1981. AIDS appeared in Bangladesh 8 years later. At present AIDS exists worldwide. Neighboring countries like India, Myanmar and Thailand a...
- Nager Acrofacial Dysostosis Syndrome: A Newborn with Bilateral Hearing Impairment
- B Naher 2010
- Mere diagnosis of Nager acrofacial dysostosis in neonatal period seeing only the craniofacial and limb defects and not performing the test for hearing may cause delayed detection of conductive deafness resulting in delayed speech and ...
- A Neonate with Non-immune Hydrops Foetalis in Rh Non-immunized Mother
- N Begum 2010
- In presence of immune factors (Rh Negative mother and Rh Positive father) NIHF is a very rare condition and due to its rarity / scarcity much information is not available. Though rare, obstetricians should keep in mind that Rh non-imm...
- Familial Hypophosphatemic Rickets - A Case Report and Review of Literature
- M Haque 2010
- It can be stated that XLH must be considered as a differential diagnosis with any form of rickets, who has positive family history, presence of bowing of legs, knock knee, coxa vara, genu varum (rather than Harrison’...
- A Reappraisal of Clinical Characteristics of Typhoid Fever
- A Alam 2010
- Recent reports from developing countries show that the clinical presentation, diagnosis and treatment of typhoid have significantly altered often leading to missed diagnosis. The incidence of complications is also reported to be varia...
- Determination of TOF Characteristics in a Tertiary Care Centre of Bangladesh
- J Kabir 2010
- Tetralogy of Fallot (TOF) is the commonest cause of cyanotic congenital heart disease (CHD) worldwide. The aim of this study was to determine the demography, associated anomalies and status of peripheral pulmonary stenosis (PPS), type...
- Etiology and Risk Factors of Febrile Seizure – An Update
- G Kundu 2010
- Febrile seizures (FS) are the most common convulsive event in children. This condition has been described since the time of Hippocrates. The etiology of the febrile seizures are still unclear. In FS, there is a strong familial predisp...
- Liver Biopsy in Children in Dhaka Shishu Hospital A Study of 30 Cases
- M Alam 2010
- Liver biopsy is an established procedure to diagnose disease, to assess prognosis and to follow up of liver diseases.Although liver biopsy is a confirmatory diagnostic procedure of majority of the hepatological disorders, it carries t...
- Alteration of Hepatic Function: Helpful to Diagnose and Assess Severity of Perinatal Asphyxia
- M Islam 2010
- Diagnosis of perinatal asphyxia is mostly established retrospectively. But it is difficult to diagnose perinatal asphyxia retrospectively in the absence of perinatal records. As because of hypoxaemia, different organ systems of the bo...
- Nutritional Status of 1-5 Years Children of the Tea Workers in Sylhet Division
- S Muaz 2010
- A cross-sectional community based study was conducted in four tea gardens of Sylhet division to assess the nutritional status of 1 to 5 years children of tea workers. Nutritional status was determined anthropometrically along with the...
- 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
