Series No.50
Occupational Pulmonary Tuberculosis among BRAC Community Health Workers of Trishal, Bangladesh |
| Fazlul Karim, Jalaluddin Ahmed, Qazi Shafayetul Islam and Md. Akramul Islam |
| October - 2011 |
| Different studies reported 2-14 times higher risk of TB for the healthcare workers than the general populations. This poses a serious challenge to the healthcare workers involved in TB control worldwide. BRAC has been using services of thousands of community-based health workers (CHW) known as shasthya shebikas for TB control all over the country. Their continuous exposure to infectious pulmonary TB (PTB) patients might have increased the risk of disease transmission........ |
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Series No.49
Sustaining Health: The Role of BRAC’s Community Health Volunteers in Bangladesh, Afghanistan and Uganda |
| Laura Reichenbach and Shafiun Nahin Shimul |
| October - 2011 |
| This study fills an important gap in current understanding about a critical aspect of BRAC’s health programmes –the financial sustainability of the community health volunteers (commonly referred to as Shasthya Shebikas in Bangladesh) that are the cornerstone of BRAC’s health programmes. Shasthya Shebikas (SS) are a cadre offemale volunteers that are recruited and trained by BRAC to provide a range of essential healthcare services to their communities.... |
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Series No.48
Economic and Social Analysis of Primary Education in Bangladesh: A Study of BRAC Interventions and Mainstream Schools |
| Alia Ahmad and Iftekharul Haque |
| August - 2011 |
| Bangladesh has achieved significant progress in enrolment in primary schools including gender parity. Currently, two major problems are dropout before completing primary education and poor quality of education with low attainment of basic competencies. These problems are especially acute among children of poor families.... |
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Series No. 47
An Assessment of HRLE Shebika with a Focus on their Effectiveness |
| Md. Abdul Alim, Mohammad Rafi |
| July - 2011 |
The study aimed to identify the challenges that the shebikas faced in becoming
proactive against human rights violation (HRV) and find out how they could be made more effective in taking action against HRVs. Both quantitative and qualitativemethods were used for data collection.... |
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Series No. 46
Profile of the Adolescent Girls: Findings from the Baseline Survey for Social and Financial Empowerment of Adolescents (SoFEA) Programme |
| Anindita Bhattacharjee, Narayan C. Das |
| July - 2011 |
| This study provides baseline profile of the adolescents from both SoFEA intervention areas and adjacent areas. Adolescent girls from the intervention areas are divided into two groups: girls from new SoFEA intervention areas and girls from areas withSoFEA intervention on the existing ADP clubs.... |
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Series No. 45
Where NGOs go and do not go? |
| Debdulal Mallick, Munirul H. Nabin |
| May - 2011 |
| investigates the role of output market imperfections in constraining the microfinance programme to mitigate credit market imperfections. We develop a model in which output market imperfections |
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Series No. 44
State of Justice in Chittagong Hill Tracts: Exploring the Formal and Informal Justice Institutions of Indeigenous Communities. |
| Debasish Kumar Kundu, Mrinmoy Samadder, Ashrafuzzaman Khan, Sharin Shajahan Naomi |
| January - 2011 |
| examine the formal and informal justice system of the ethnic communities in CHT in regards to assist Human Rights and Legal Aid Services (HRLS) programme of BRAC for effective extension in this area... |
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Series No. 43
Household Costs of Obtaining Maternal and Newborn Care in Rural Bangladesh: Baseline Survey |
| Mohammad Nasir Uddin Khan, Zahidul Quayyum, Hashima-E-Nasreen, Tim Ensor, Sarah Salahuddin |
| December - 2009 |
| Mohammad Nasir Uddin Khan, Zahidul Quayyum, Hashima-E-Nasreen, Tim Ensor and Sarah Salauddin examine the costs incurred by a household for maternal and newborn care in selected areas of rural Bangladesh... |
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Series No. 42
Microfinance and Moneylender Interest Rate: Evidence from Bangladesh |
| Debdulal Mallick |
| November - 2009 |
| This paper addressed one aspect of the linkage by empirically investigating the impact of the microfinance programme expansion on the moneylender interest rates in Bangladesh, and found that moneylender interest rates increased with microfinance programme expansion... |
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Series No. 41
Socioeconomic Divides in Tuberculosis Control |
| Editor: Fazlul Karim |
| October - 2009 |
| The aims of the study were to measure the prevalence of smear-positive pulmonary TB (PTB) in different population groups, understand the patterns of people’s behaviour of and barriers to healthcare seeking for respiratory illnesses, assess socioeconomic and gender differences in the use of the DOTS services including treatment, and explore the role of the private informal healthcare providers in the DOTS strategy at the community level... |
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