HIV/AIDS in Bangladesh and Present Research

Paul, Alak

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-57650-9_1

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“…Unsound mothers and fathers would have little chance to practice and support EBF; (ii) fathers and mothers had to be capable of reading and listening English and/or Bengali (native language of Bangladesh); (iii) parents should have communication devices (e.g., mobile phone) and either full-time or optional access to the internet (such choice was backed by two major reasons. Firstly, Bangladesh is a Muslim country and culturally conservative enough [ 54 ]. Bangladeshi women and mothers might not feel free to conduct a face to face interview on an issue like breastfeeding.…”

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Father’s Knowledge, Attitude and Support to Mother’s Exclusive Breastfeeding Practices in Bangladesh: A Multi-Group Structural Equations Model Analysis

Ouyang

Nasrin

2021

Healthcare

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Despite worldwide initiatives, the exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) rate is low. The study aims to investigate the role of fathers’ knowledge, attitude and support in formulating mothers’ practice of breastfeeding taking Bangladeshi parental cases as a sample. The study uses a standard survey instrument following the theory of planned behavior (TPB). Responses from 332 couples are accepted following a standard criteria and used for analysis. The sample is divided into sub-groups based on delivery mode—vaginal (n = 211, 64%) and cesarean section (n = 121, 36%). Based on the sub-groups, a multi-group structural equation modelling (SEM) is applied to analyze the phenomena. The study finds that a father’s knowledge in EBF can, in one way, significantly enhance mother’s knowledge by sharing and, in another way, can enhance his own attitude to offer different support to his partner/wife which induces the chances of EBF practices by mothers. The enhanced EBF knowledge of a mother raises her attitude to practice EBF, which is also positively affected by the father’s attitude. Thus, fathers’ support, coupled with mothers’ positive attitude, the mother’s intention to practice EBF as per standard guidelines.

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Father’s Knowledge, Attitude and Support to Mother’s Exclusive Breastfeeding Practices in Bangladesh: A Multi-Group Structural Equations Model Analysis

Ouyang

Nasrin

2021

Healthcare

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“…2,3 Common symptoms include cough, fever, anosmia and ageusia, diarrhea, and in moderate to severe cases dyspnoea. 1,4 The virus spread drastically resulting in an extensive outbreak throughout China and spread all over the world 2,3 . World Health Organization (WHO) declared it as a worldwide pandemic on March 11, 2020.…”

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“…in an attempt to halt the spread of this deadly virus. 4 Despite government's intense effort isolation policy could not be implemented in proper way. According to IEDCR (Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research) Bangladesh, 68% of COVID-19 positive cases were observed between 21 to 50 years of age.…”

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Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on teaching learning process in pre clinical medical education in selective medical college in Bangladesh

Faruky,

Sultana

2024

J Bangladesh Soc Physiol

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Background: The corona virus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has caused major disruption in educational sector including medical education. This disease outbreak has changed the medical education curriculum from traditional platform to elearning for students including Bangladesh. Objective: To observe the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on teaching learning process in medical education in Bangladesh. Methods: This qualitative survey was done among the 68 pre-clinical students aged 19 to 23years, of a non-government medical college in Bangladesh, from march to December 2021. All study participants were first year undergraduate MBBS students from anatomy, biochemistry and physiology. Data was collected by administering pre-tested questionnaires through Google form. Results: About 75% of the participants agreed that online classes were helpful during the home stay period of COVID pandemic, but about 92.2% of them were skeptical about the success of this online system for their future medical education. About 80.9% had difficulty in keeping their concentration during online class. About 94% found difficulty to follow online practical classes. Majority of the students (82.4%) feel anxious whether they were capable of doing their job properly since this method needs technical knowledge. About 50% students had limited access to internet, there were technical issues like power cut (76.5%), and poor network of internet (69.1%) also reduced the effectiveness of online education. Online class also disrupt teacher-student relationship. Conclusion: The internet based classes served the purpose of continuation of academic activity in medical education during adverse condition of COVID . But due to uneven use of technology it had some obstacles also. Student’s ability to learning in medical education was also hampered in the absence of physical classes. This online method of education system needs much improvement to be effective in medical education. J Bangladesh Soc Physiol 2022;17(2): 64-71

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“…This high-risk group maintains transactional sex with other key populations like People who inject drugs (PWID), Bi-sexual, and Hermaphrodites/Hijra. They also have overlapping relationships with other bridging populations, such as non-injecting drug users, migrant/transport workers, and commercial/non-commercial partners [1][2][3][4][5][6]. Recently, new AIDS cases have increased in Bangladesh, posing the country at greater risk as 53% (7400 out of 14,000) of HIV-positive detected cases remain missing.…”

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“…Additionally, FCSWs have 13-times more relative risk for the acquisition of HIV compared to the general population [11,25] due to an increased likelihood of being biologically susceptible, having higher rates of STIs/symptoms [5,6,12,26], and lower STI/HIV knowledge [2-4, 14, 27 -29]. Different high-risk sexual behaviors like no/inconsistent condom use, multiple-partnership concurrencies, group sex, and heterosexual anal intercourse [3,12,14,27,[30][31][32][33], and poor sexual reproductive health-seeking behaviors are ubiquitously present among them [6,14,[27][28][29]. Moreover, sex workers in Bangladesh experience socio-cultural, environmental, and structural vulnerabilities like dire poverty, gender inequality, illiteracy, higher internal-external migration, and cross-borders with high HIV-risk countries [2-4, 29,34].…”

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Social and structural determinants associated with the prevalence of sexually transmitted infections among female commercial sex workers in Dhaka City, Bangladesh

Kawser,

Khan,

Hossain

et al. 2024

PLOS Glob Public Health

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Female commercial sex workers (FCSWs) bear higher rates of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) among key populations. The association of structural determinants and STIs among FCSWs was not at the forefront of research earlier in Bangladesh. This study examined how structural factors correlate with the prevalence of STIs at physical/social/economic/policy levels among FCSWs in Dhaka city. 495 FCSWs were screened for HIV, hepatitis B, and syphilis. Structural variables (Individual risks, high-risk sexual behaviors, work environments) were extracted from the previous multi-level study on FCSWs and analyzed in 2020 to determine whether macro/micro-structural factors were associated with STIs. The prevalence of STIs was 43.6% (95% CI: 39.1%-48). Most (n = 207/495) FCSWs were infected with Syphilis or Hepatitis B, only 1.8% had co-infection, and none was positive for HIV. Multiple logistic regression revealed that ’Individual risk’ factors like age (≤18 years, adjusted odds ratio = AOR = .28; 18.1–29.9 years, AOR = .57), years in the sex industry (<1 year AOR = .15; 1–5 years, AOR = .39), and condoms as contraceptives (AOR = 2.7) were significantly associated with STIs. Considering ‘High-risk behaviors’ like monthly coitus with regular clients (AOR = .33), performing no anal sex ever (AOR = .03), and consistent condom use (AOR = .13) were less likely to be associated with STIs (P<0.05), while the association of ever group sex with STIs reported to double (AOR = 2.1). ’Work environment’ like sex on roads/parks/shrines/markets (AOR = 2.6) and ever HIV-testing (AOR = 2.5) were significantly linked with STIs. However, micro-level factors like experiencing forced sex in the past year (AOR = 1.79) and condoms collected from hotel boys (AOR = .34) were significantly associated with STIs in the ‘Hierarchical- model’ with increasing model-power. ‘Micro-structural’ determinants predominated over ‘Macro/policy-level factors’ and profoundly influenced STIs. FCSWs need comprehensive and integrated interventions to promote accurate condom use perception, eliminate risky sexual behaviors, and provide quality reproductive health care. Necessary steps at the policy level are urgently needed to decriminalize commercial sex work.

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HIV/AIDS in Bangladesh and Present Research

Cited by 4 publications

References 63 publications

Father’s Knowledge, Attitude and Support to Mother’s Exclusive Breastfeeding Practices in Bangladesh: A Multi-Group Structural Equations Model Analysis

Father’s Knowledge, Attitude and Support to Mother’s Exclusive Breastfeeding Practices in Bangladesh: A Multi-Group Structural Equations Model Analysis

Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on teaching learning process in pre clinical medical education in selective medical college in Bangladesh

Social and structural determinants associated with the prevalence of sexually transmitted infections among female commercial sex workers in Dhaka City, Bangladesh

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