Country-wide Vitamin A-plus drive launched
A countrywide 'vitamin A-plus' campaign kicks off today for administrering all the children aged 1-5 with vitamin A capsule. Under the programme, a high-powered vitamin 'A' capsule will be given to
Bangladesh Observer (Dhaka)
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GM crops, marginal farmers and a cycle of debt
The majority of British people are against GM crops and after the recetn publication of a report that revealed that wildlife was harmed in field trials of GM oilseed rre and sugar beet varieties,
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A transboundary peace park for tigers
The Sundarbans has been in the news again with what must seem to many to be quite remarkable given the history of the two neighbours but as tigers do not respect national boundaries it was inevitable
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1b people live without safe sanitation, water supply: WSSCC survey
Lack of safe santitation identified as a number one enemy of world health is the world's biggest cause of infection, particularly among poor people in developing countries. It deprives hundreds of
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Cervical cancer major cause of maternal mortality
Cervical cancer is one of the major causes of high maternal mortality in Bangladesh and the blame goes to early marriage and early start of sexual activities, reports UNB.In 2002, 1,047 people were
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Dhaka faces alarming sound pollution
Sound pollution in Dhaka affects 86 per cent city dwellers seriously jeeopardizing normal civic life and also causing various diseases including short of hearing and heart
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Banned polybags reappear in Moulvibazar
The banned polybags have reappeared in the hat-bazars of Rajnagar upazilla here causing concern among the
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35m suffer from rheumatic fever
Almost 35 million people of Bangladesh or 25 per cent of the total population suffer from rhematic disorders. Rhematic disorders are the common cause of long term disability and work loss.According
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Plan to eradicate leprosy by 2005
Bangladesh has fixed a strategy for complete eradication of leprosy by 2005 expediting the current anti-leprosy campaign that visibly attained a significant success, reports
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17000 women die of breast cancer every year
Around 22 thousand woemnare attacked by breast cancer every year in Bangladesh and among them 17 thousand