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CHD signs MoU with Public Health Foundation

Center for Health and Development (CHD-India) has partnered with the Public Health Foundation of Bangladesh to advance conversations in health. CSD IndiaThe Memorandum of Understanding was signed on December 8 at Dhaka, Bangladesh. Dr Edmond Fernandes, CEO, Center for Health and Development, Mangaluru, signed the MoU in Dhaka with Dr Sharmeen Yasmeen, CEO, Public Health Foundation of Bangladesh. Members of Public Health Foundation, Including Dr Muzaherul Huq, Chair, PHFBD and Former Advisor, World Health Organization were present. The Mo...

Women’s allowance popularises breastfeeding in Bangladesh  

When her son was barely a year old in 2012, Ayesha Khatun, 16, was already expecting another baby. "I could not give him (son) rice regularly; he always howled for food," Khatun told Khabar South Asia. "I mainly took water to suckle him." She lamented how she would not produce enough milk without nutritious food, and another baby coming. "Allah knows what will happen to the new baby if my son takes all my breast milk," she worried. In August 2012, a social worker from the Ministry of Women and Children Affairs' local office in Niamatpur helped get her enrolled in a programme that provides an allowance of Tk 350 ($4.50) monthly for up to two years to lactating mothers in rural areas. [caption id="attachment_11266" align="alignleft" width="300"]

DDCs urged to control dust  

Green activists on Saturday urged the Dhaka City Corporations (DCCs) and other authorities concerned  to take immediate steps to properly control air pollution caused by dust in the city, which poses severe threat to human health and environment. They made the call at a human chain programme jointly organised by Poribesh Bachao Andolon (Poba) and BCHRD in front of the National Museum in the capital. Tobacco TalePoba chairman Abu Naser Khan, BCHRD executive director Mahbub Haque, Debdas G...

Bangladesh Study Links Miscarriages, Low Vitamin E

A new study links lower levels of vitamin E with higher rates of miscarriage. The study of women in Bangladesh suggests a better diet may lead to better pregnancy outcomes. For years, researchers at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore have been working with local teams in rural Bangladesh, studying maternal and child health. [caption id="attachment_11021" align="alignleft" width="300"]kids in BD FILE - A Bangladeshi woman shields her baby from the sun as she stands in a line at a rice shop in Dhaka, April 5, 2008.[/caption] In this new stud...

Beximco receives approval from Health Canada

Beximco Pharmaceuticals Limited., the leading manufacturer and exporter of medicines in Bangladesh, has recently received GMP (Good Manufacturing Practices) approval from the Canadian regulatory authority, Health Canada. This is for the first time a Bangladeshi company has received this prestigious approval. This opens a new marketing opportunity for Beximco Pharma in the Canadian market and, similar to many other developed countries, Canada is increasingly promoting access to generic drugs. Logo Health CanadaIn July th...

Deal with Hilleman Labs for oral cholera vaccine

The New Delhi-based Hilleman Laboratories, an equal joint venture partnership between Merck & Co and Wellcome Trust, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Bangladesh-based ICDDR,B (formerly the International Centre for Diarrheal Disease Research, Bangladesh), an international public health research organisation, and Incepta Vaccine Ltd, leading pharmaceutical company in Bangladesh, in a bid to fast track the clinical trials and product licensing and commercialisation of oral cholera vaccine. oral-cholera-vaccine
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