BRAC canied out a two-year Non-Fonnal Primary Education Programme for Adolescent Girls (NFPE-AG) as part of its fanner Women's Heath and Development Programme (WHOP) to increase basic literacy and nwneracy skills as well ...

The Reproductive Health and Disease Control (RHDC) programme has been in operation since 1996. This study was conducted in RHDC programme areas to validate the accuracy of baseline information as collected by the programme. ...

BRAC began its Family Planning Facilitation Program (FPFP) in December 1994 covering two districts (Nilphamari and Sherpur) although Moulavibazar and Habiganj districts were subsequently added in next year. The program ...

The state of nutrition in Bangladesh is precariously poor. The diet, being heavily deficient in calories and seriously imbalanced, leads to the obvious consequences of widespread protein-energy and micronutrient malnutrition ...

The contribution of community-based ARI control programme of BRAC in improving maternal knowledge of acute respiratory infections in children was assessed. Data came from a cross-sectional survey of 2,938 mothers of under ...

Millions of people suffer and many of them die from malnutrition in developing countries. BRAC, a non-governmental organisation in Bangladesh, has made significant progress towards planning and implementing nutrition ...

The study assessed the competency of community health volunteers in diagnosing pneumonia in children through simple clinical signs. Data were collected by a group of research physicians who observed the case management ...

Objective: The study aimed to explore whether or not the women focused development nterventions have any effect on neonatal death. Vlethods: The qualitative research method was used. Case study of cases (died within 28 ...