Given the numbers of disabled children in Bangladesh and the lack of trained professionals, innovative forms of service delivery are required. The Bangladesh Protibondhi Foundation has developed an outreach parent training service based at two centres, one urban and one rural. Mothers are shown how to use pictorially based Distance Training Packages (DTP), which they take home. This paper presents findings concerning factors which seem to affect mothers' attendance with their children at DTP advisory sessions. The study followed 47 children with cerebral palsy, aged between 2 and 5.5 years, over a period of around 18 months. The main factors predicting higher attendance were the child's sex (i.e. boys were brought back more often), particularly in the rural area, and lower adaptation to the child reported by the mother. The problems described by mothers in using the DTP advisory service were economic (such as transport costs), cultural (such as mothers not being permitted out alone), and medical (such as the child having repeated fits). The implications for future service development are discussed.

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:A quasi-experimental study was carried out to assess the knowledge on HIV/ AIDS among women in Boro Chondrail & Barigaon village of Savar district from 19th April to 25th April 2009. A total of 77 women were selected purposively. Baseline data were collected through pretested structured questionnaires by face to face interview. Educational intervention was given and data were collected again using the same questionnaires. Only 49.35% heard the name of HIV /AIDS before the program. Among the respondents 18.42% heard the name of AIDS from television, 5.26% were from radio, 2.64% were from news paper, 5.26% were from sign board and 68.42% were health workers. About the mode of transmission 29.87% said that HIV transmits by sharing syringe & needle, 31.17% answered unsafe physical relation, 16.88% said by blood of infected person, 5.19% knew about vertical transmission and 5.19% said by breast milk before intervention. After intervention 100% said that HIV transmits by sharing syringe & needle, 100% answered unsafe physical relation, 100% told by blood of infected person, 77.92% reported vertically transmission and 88.31% said through breast milk. Majority (70.13%) didn't know about the symptoms of AIDS before intervention. Only 11.69% identified weight loss as symptom of AIDS, 7.79% answered fever & cough, 28.69% told weakness, 1.30% mentioned diarrhoea. After intervention which were improved to 35.06%, 32.46%, 32.46%, 35.06%, 19.48%,19.48% respectively. Before intervention 23.38% believed living in same house with an AIDS patient could infect others, 31.17% believed use same drinking glass and 14.29% believed eating together could infect others. After intervention no one found who believed in myth about AIDS. Among the respondents only 46.75% knew the role of condom in prevention of AIDS before intervention and it became 100% after the intervention. Only 12.58% knew intravenous drug users are the risk group with increased to 93.5% after the intervention. It may be concluded that the knowledge of rural women on HIV/AIDS were not good which raised significantly after the educational intervention.

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