In the past few decades, Bangladesh has made enormous advances in public health and economic development. According to the 2015 Millennium Development Goals (MDG) progress report for Bangladesh, the country has seen remarkable progress in increasing life expectancy and reducing infant and maternal mortality. This success has been attributed to a number of innovative public
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Single-dose intranasal flu vaccine safe and effective
Influenza is a ubiquitous virus. Most people have at some point in their lives come down with “the flu” – a week of sudden high fever and malaise caused by infection with a seasonal strain of the rapidly evolving influenza virus. For most of us, this is more of a painful inconvenience than a mortal
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Improving how journalists report on evidence-informed health issues for effective policymaking
Journalists play an influential role in bridging the gap between research evidence and health policymaking. However, health reporters often find it difficult to verify the credibility of information sources and struggle for effective search strategies to identify and access relevant knowledge resources on public health. In order to provide journalists with an opportunity to hone
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Child marriage and intimate partner violence: A tragic synergy
Child marriage is defined as the marriage of girls under the age of 18, usually to older men. The persistence of child marriage is a clear sign of the existence of patriarchal cultural attitudes about gender roles. Early child marriage consigns women to domestic roles at an age where they are unable to make mature,
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icddr,b’s recent work on antimicrobial resistance
Infectious diseases remain a major health problem in low and middle-income countries, including Bangladesh, and require the frequent use of antimicrobials. During the last 70 years, the development of effective antimicrobial drugs has reduced the incidence of life-threatening infections. However, that achievement has steadily been eroded by the emergence of antibiotic resistance. Antimicrobial resistance is
