Today marks the first day of the 15th Asian Conference on Diarrhoeal Disease and Nutrition (ASCODD) taking place in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Ahead of the conference, I sat with Dr. Firdausi Qadri, President of ASCODD and Senior Scientist at icddr,b, to discuss the event. Dr. Qadri has spent the past 30 years working on the prevention and control of enteric
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RDM launches its new website
The official website of icddr,b-led “USAID’s Research for Decision Makers (RDM)’ is now live at http://rdm.icddrb.org/. This dedicated website for the RDM project was developed to share updates of ongoing research projects, along with key findings of completed studies. RDM, initiated in May 2017, is a five-year implementation research project which focuses on identifying
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How to curb intimate partner violence? Let young boys witness gender-equality at home
“Not until the half of our population represented by women and girls can live free from fear, violence and everyday insecurity, can we truly say we live in a fair and equal world.” — UN Secretary-General António Guterres” Violence against women and girls (VAWG) is one of the most widespread, persistent and devastating issues
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For hypertension, prevention is the best medicine
One of the leading causes of premature deaths in men and women across the world is the “silent killer” hypertension. It is so prevalent that 1 in 4 men and 1 in 5 women have hypertension. The World Health Organization estimates that it is the cause of 7.5 million deaths annually, which is about 12.8%
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Is the lack of a diverse diet causing malnutrition in children under five years of age?
One of the most persisting issues present in the world today is undernutrition, particularly among children. Improper and irregular feeding practices are one of the key causes of childhood undernutrition. Photo: Sumon Yusuf/icddr,b Broadly, it is characterised by stunting (low height for age), wasting (low weight for height), underweight (low weight for age) and micronutrient
