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Big push: Call the midwife in Bangladesh

More than 350,000 babies are born globally every day. Yet in many cultures it remains a mystical and deeply superstitious act. Now expertise from the UK’s TV hit Call the Midwife is helping people in Bangladesh to break the taboo and improve the health of mothers and babies. midwifeTwenty-two-year-old Bimola is lying covered in robes on the floor of her home. She is surrounded by two women anxiously waiting to help her through the birth of her first child. It is a tense moment and expectations are riding high, BBC reports. “Cut, cut, cut!...

Taeyoung Engineering to build water treatment plant    

South Korean builder Taeyoung Engineering & Construction Co. said Monday it has clinched a 55.28 billion won (US$49.76 million) order to build a water treatment plant in Bangladesh. engergy Under the deal with Chittagong Water Supply and Sewerage Authority, a semi-autonomous municipal utility that provides water supply and sanitation services in Bangladesh, Taeyoung will construct a water treatment facility in the southeastern port region of Modunaghat in the South Asian country, the company said in a regulatory filing. The project, w...

Multivitamins lower pre-term birth chances

Giving multivitamins to pregnant wormen in the developing world could avert a leading cause of pre-term birth and infant mortality, a study in this week’s Journal of the American Medical Association says. [caption id="attachment_11565" align="alignleft" width="300"]baby FILE - A woman holds her 22-day-old grandson as she walks on the outskirts of Dhaka, Bangladesh, Jan. 22, 2014.[/caption] Researchers at Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, Maryland, studied the benefits of giving multivitamins to 45,000 women in rural Ba...

Global life expectancy ‘increased by 6 years since 1990’

Between 1990 and 2013, global life expectancy increased by nearly 5.8 years in men and 6.6 years in women, reports Medical News Today based on a new analysis of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013 published in The Lancet. “The progress we are seeing against a variety of illnesses and injuries is good, even remarkable, but we can and must do even better,” says lead author Dr Christopher Murray, professor of Global Health at the University of Washington. “The huge increase in collective action and funding given to the major infectious diseases such as diarrhea, measles, tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS and malaria has had a real impact,” he says.

India, Bangladesh have 80 pc smokeless tobacco users    

80 per cent of more than 300 million consumers of smokeless tobacco in 70 countries belong to India and Bangladesh, a report on the global use of smokeless tobacco has claimed. The report ‘Smokeless Tobacco and Public Health: A Global Perspective’ has claimed that majority of smokeless tobacco users (89 percent) are in Southeast Asia, which also has the highest oral cancer rates in the world. BANGLADESH-HEALTH-WOMENAs many as 32 leading experts from around the world contributed to the report, which was released today by the Centers for Dis...

Health for all is an achievable goal    

The Ebola epidemic has taught the world a valuable lesson in how weak health systems and deadly viruses can combine to devastating effect. As international generosity funds a rapid response and our staff are being deployed in an effort to end the crisis, the whole world has been given a shot in the arm — and a reason to mobilize around comprehensive, reliable and integrated health systems. Health crises like Ebola demonstrate the need for strong health systems but more than that, they highlight the links between health care and a child’s broader right to a happy and healthy life. Beyond the impact on health, there has been a devastating knock-on effect on education, for instance, with schools remaining closed in an effort to stem the spread of the disease. Child protection programs h...
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