Sabina Faiz Rashid

Towards a socially just model: balancing hunger and response to the COVID-19 pandemic in Bangladesh

Rashid, Sabina Faiz; Theobald, Sally; Ozano, Kim (BMJ Global Health 2020, 2020-06-01)

Utilization of mobile phones for accessing menstrual regulation services among low-income women in Bangladesh: a qualitative analysis

Background: As many as one-third of all pregnancies in Bangladesh are unplanned, with nearly one-half of these pregnancies ending in either menstrual regulation (MR) or illegal clandestine abortion. Although MR is provided ...

Changing global policy to deliver safe, equitable, and affordable care for women's cancers

Ginsburg, Ophira M.; Badwe, Rajendra A.; Peter A. Boyle, Peter; Derricks, Gemma; Dare, Anna J.; Evans, Timothy Grant; Eniu, Alexandru E.; Jiménez, Jorge C.Moreno; Kutluk, Tezer M.; De Lima Lopes, Gilberto L.; Mohammed, Sulma Ibrahim; Qiao, Youlin; Rashid, Sabina Faiz; Summers, Diane; Sarfati, Diana; Temmerman, Marleen I.L.; Trimble, Edward Lloyd; Padela, Aasim; Aggarwal, Ajay; Sullivan, Richard (© 2017 Lancet Publishing Group, 2017-02-25)

Breast and cervical cancer are major threats to the health of women globally, particularly in low-income and middle-income countries. Radical progress to close the global cancer divide for women requires not only evidence-based ...

Sex, pornography and medicines in the markets of Dhaka

Informal markets in sexual and reproductive health services and commodities in rural and urban Bangladesh

Influence of gender roles and rising food prices on poor, pregnant women's eating and food provisioning practices in Dhaka, Bangladesh

Background: Maternal malnutrition in Bangladesh is a persistent health issue and is the product of a number of complex factors, including adherence to food 'taboos' and a patriarchal gender order that limits women's mobility ...

Explaining equity gains in child survival in Bangladesh: scale, speed, and selectivity in health and development

By disaggregating gains in child health in Bangladesh over the past several decades, signifi cant improvements in gender and socioeconomic inequities have been revealed. With the use of a social determinants of health ...

Prevalence and experiences of intimate partner violence against women with disabilities in Bangladesh: results of an explanatory sequential mixed-method study

This study was aimed to estimate the prevalence of intimate partner violence (IPV) in a sample of 226 women with disabilities living in four different districts of Bangladesh. It also explored the physical and psychological ...

Creating a public space and dialogue on sexuality and rights: a case study from Bangladesh

This article describes and analyses a research based engagement by a university school of public health in Bangladesh aimed at raising public debate on sexuality and rights and making issues such as discrimination more ...

Internalized HIV/AIDS-related stigma in a sample of HIV-positive people in Bangladesh

Internalized stigma among people living with HIV/AIDS (PLHA) is prevalent in Bangladesh. A better understanding of the effects of stigma on PLHA is required to reduce this and to minimize its harmful effects. This study ...

Beliefs and practices during pregnancy and childbirth in urban slums of Dhaka, Bangladesh

Worldwide urbanization has become a crucial issue in recent years. Bangladesh, one of the poorest and most densely-populated countries in the world, has been facing rapid urbanization. In urban areas, maternal indicators ...

Human rights and reproductive health: political realities and pragmatic choices for married adolescent women living in urban slums, Bangladesh

In Bangladesh, particularly in urban slums, married adolescent womens human rights to life, health, and reproductive and sexual health remain adversely affected because of the structural inequalities and political economic, ...

The sexual and reproductive health care market in Bangladesh: where do poor women go?

In Bangladesh, the formal public health system provides few services for common sexual and reproductive health problems such as white discharge, fistula, prolapse, menstrual problems, reproductive and urinary tract infections, ...

Innovation for universal health coverage in Bangladesh: a call to action

Adams, Alayne M.; Ahmed, Tanvir; El Arifeen, Shams E.; Evans, Timothy Grant; Huda, Tanvir M.; Reichenbach, Laura J.; Ahmed, Faruque S K; Ahmed, Shamim; Ahmed, Syéd Masud; Azad, Kishwar; Bhuiya, Abbas Uddin; Mahmood, Shehrin Shaila; Cash, Richard A.; Chen, Lincoln; Chowdhury, Mahbub Elahi Khan; Chowdhury, Ahmed Mushtaque Raza; Christou, Aliki; Halder, Shantana R.; Husain, Mushtuq Mushtaq; Islam, Mohammad Sirajul; Islam, Khaled Shamsul; Huq, Shireen; Hussain, Zakir; Mahmud, Simeen; Mallick, Fuad Hassan; May, Maria A.; Osman, Ferdous Arfina; Peters, David H.; Perry, Henry B.; Rabbani, Atonu; Rahman, Mijanur Aminur; Rahman, Mahmudur Ziaur; Rasheed, Sabrina; Rashid, Sabina F.; Al-Sabir, Ahmed; Standing, Hilary; Mahmud, Simeen (© 2013 The Lancet, 2013)

A post-Millennium Development Goals agenda for health in Bangladesh should be defined to encourage a second generation of health-system innovations under the clarion call of universal health coverage. This agenda should ...

Exploring the context in which different close-to-community sexual and reproductive health service providers operate in Bangladesh: a qualitative study

Mahmud, Ilias; Chowdhury, Sadia; Ashraf Siddiqi, Bulbul; Theobald, Sally; Ormel, Hermen; Biswas, Salauddin; Tauseef Jahangir, Yamin; Sarker, Malabika; Faiz Rashid, Sabina (© 2015 BioMed Central Ltd., 2015)

Background: A range of formal and informal close-to-community (CTC) health service providers operate in an increasingly urbanized Bangladesh. Informal CTC health service providers play a key role in Bangladesh's pluralistic ...

From knowing our needs to enacting change: findings from community consultations with indigenous communities in Bangladesh

Introduction: Indigenous peoples are among the most marginalized peoples in the world due to issues relating to well-being, political representation, and economic production. The research consortium Goals and Governance ...