Antimicrobial Susceptibility of Neisseria gonorrhoeae in Bangladesh (2014 Update)
Researchers from icddrb, save the children Bangladesh and Johns Hopkins university in the USA came together to collaborate in this paper. The paper aims to orient readers on the new finding … Read More »
Contracting-out urban primary health care in Bangladesh: a qualitative exploration of implementation processes and experience
Background: Contracting-out (CO) to non-state providers is used widely to increase access to health care, but it entails many implementation challenges. Using Bangladesh’s two decades of experience with contracting out Urban … Read More »
Current status of gonococcal antimicrobial susceptibility with special reference to Azithromycin and Ceftriaxone: Report from a tertiary care hospital in Bangladesh
Successful treatment of gonorrhea has always been jeopardized by the emergence of resistance to antibiotics recommended as first-line therapies. The present investigation was carried out to demonstrate the current status of … Read More »
Epidemiology of Hepatitis B Virus Infection in Bangladesh: Prevalence among General Population, Risk Groups and Genotype Distribution
Despite a considerable body of published research on hepatitis B in Bangladesh, researchers continue to lament the lack of reliable information about hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection epidemiology. The present review … Read More »
A systematic review of the use of adolescent mystery clients in assessing the adolescent friendliness of health services in high, middle, and low-income countries
Mystery client methodology is a form of participatory research that provides a unique opportunity to monitor and evaluate the performance of health care providers or health facilities from the perspective of … Read More »
Oxidative stress induced sperm DNA damage, a possible reason for male infertility
The aim of the study was to evaluate the association of oxidative stress induced sperm DNA damage with the pathogenesis of male infertility. The study comprised a total of 66 subjects, … Read More »
Male Infertility in Bangladesh: What Serve Better-Pharmacological Help or Awareness Programme?
Treatment of male infertility is one of the challenging tasks in developing nation given the nature of tradition and superstation of ‘professed confidentiality’. Traditionally, the issue of human infertility is mainly … Read More »
Why include men? Establishing sexual health clinics for men in rural Bangladesh
Subsequent to recommendations from 1994 United Nations International Conference on Population and Development, and given recent findings outlining the links between sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and a reduction in HIV incidence, … Read More »
Medicinal plants for sexual dysfunction
The aim of the present study was to conduct an ethnobotanical survey on medicinal plants used by local me- dicinal plants practitioner for the treatment of snake bite and sexual dysfunction … Read More »
A Survey on the Use of Medicinal Plants by Folk Medicinal Practitioners in Five Villages of Boalia Sub-district, Rajshahi District, Bangladesh
An ethnomedicinal survey was carried out in the villages of Muktarpur, Shyampur, Belgharia, Naodar, and Yusufpur situated in Boalia sub-district, Rajshahi district, Bangladesh. The objective of this survey was to find … Read More »