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...
Center for Health and Development (CHD-India) has partnered with the Public Health Foundation of Bangladesh to advance conversations in health.
The 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...
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.
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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.
Poba chairman Abu Naser Khan, BCHRD executive director Mahbub Haque, Debdas G...
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.
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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 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.
In July th...
