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 »

Ethnomedicine use in Oraon and Gor tribes

The Oraon and the Gor tribe can be found in Sreemangal of Sylhet district in the northeastern region of Bangladesh. Both tribes have dwindled to an extent where tribe and tribal … Read More »

Use of inorganic substances in folk medicinal formulations: a case study of a folk medicinal practitioner in Tangail district, Bangladesh

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 »

Kabiraj using ethnomedicine in Bheramara, Kushtia

Traditional or folk medicinal practitioners (Kavirajes) administer primary healthcare to most of the rural population in Bangladesh. They utilize medicinal plants for various formulations to treat diverse ailments. The medicinal plants … Read More »

Newspapers need to do more to highlight Bangladesh’s achievement in maternal health

This study was conducted by researchers from four different institutes in the USA. The objective of this study was to examine newspaper coverage of maternal health in three countries that have … Read More »

Obstetric fistula in low-resource countries: An under-valued and under-studied problem

Researchers from University of Seattle and University of Washington, in USA came together to collaborate in this paper. Obstetric fistula (OF) is a serious consequence of prolonged, obstructed labour in settings … Read More »

A comprehensive approach to care is needed to improve the quality of life after surgical repair of obstetric fistula

Obstetric fistula can occur as a serious complication of prolonged obstructed labour. In 2012, a cross-sectional study was conducted of women who had undergone a successful surgical repair of an obstetric … Read More »