The study aimed to explore i) the awareness and knowledge on tuberculosis (TB), ii) knowledge on TB diagnosis and treatment, iii) attitudes towards TB, and iv) perception of barriers in accessing to TB services. The ...

The use of insecticidal bed nets is found to be an effective public health tool for control of malaria, especially for under-five children and pregnant women. BRAC, an indigenous Bangladeshi non-governmental development ...

The general perception that dentistry is expensive keeps many people away from seeking treatment from registered professionals and make them hostage to the services of non-registered lay practitioners. In Bangladesh, no ...

The ARI (Acute Respiratory Infection) control programme of BRAC has been in operation for the last few years. No independent evaluation has so far been conducted to explore how far the objectives of the programme have ...

Essential Health Programme (EHC) is one of many development efforts of BRAC providing an integrated package of preventive, promotive and basic curative services at a minimum cost to improve health and nutrition of the ...

Introduction: BRAC in association with NTP recently started the community-based child TB programme. So far, no independent study has been conducted to explore the extent to which the objectives of the programme have been ...

This study was conducted to explore the knowledge and perceptions of health workers and community people about tuberculosis in geographically inaccessible (hard-to-reach) tuberculosis (TB) programme areas of BRAG. The ...