Honoured by today's meeting with Honourable PM Sheikh Hasina. Dr Tahmeed Ahmed thanked her for the icddr,b Act 2022 and discussed key issues like malnutrition, dengue, and our innovative microbiota-directed complementary food. Grateful for her support and interest in our work!

“An absolutely inspiring example of skill, compassion, competence, & innovation in the service of Bangladesh and the world. Bravo!” - Dr Christopher MacLennan, Deputy Minister for Global Affairs Canada. Honoured to host Dr MacLennan & H E Lilly Nicholls Canada in Bangladesh at icddr,b

“The problem of [antimicrobial resistance (AMR)] has been seen as either not urgent or too difficult to solve. Neither is true.”

🆕 A Lancet Series spotlights this global issue & how existing infection prevention methods could save 750,000 lives a year: hubs.li/Q02ylby30

Wastewater from households & wet markets carries bacteria with antimicrobial-resistance (AMR) from human & animal sources, with possible transfer of AMR genes between them. #AMR imposes a huge public health cost, making drugs fail and prolonging infection.
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icddr,b scientist Nadia Rimi, featured by SciDev.Net, highlights the high prevalence of #AvianInfluenza in🇧🇩 poultry, raising the risk of #ZoonoticSpillover to humans.Tighter biosecurity, surveillance, and vaccination are critical to combat H5N1 spread. cutt.ly/Oerz9WZL

Bangladesh's Antibiotic Resistance in Communities & Hospitals (ARCH) site, with CDC & icddr,b support, is using new equipment to detect #AntimicrobialResistance faster & more accurately. This promotes correct & timely diagnostics for patients. bit.ly/3Uzx2Iq

Women scientists are leading way in Ggobal #WastewaterSurveillance to catch outbreaks before they appear. Read about icddr,b Scientist Dr Farjana Jahan's efforts in monitoring wastewater in Cox's Bazar refugee camps in 🇧🇩, featurd by the The Rockefeller Foundation 👉cutt.ly/zeeKtZXC

Read more on our recent work with collaborators in Emerging Pathogens Institute, MIMM McGill published in Science Magazine

Nice summary of our recent work with colleagues icddr,b & Emerging Pathogens Institute & MIMM McGill !

Version française disponible ici:
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In a recent article in the The Bulletin of the World Health Organization, scientists from icddr,b, The Global Fund, The GFF, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, and École de santé publique de l'UdeM propose ways to make #globalhealth initiatives more equitable through more locally informed evaluation practices.
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Congratulations Jenna Forsyth from Stanford Medicine on being named one of TIME's 100 most influential people in health! Her groundbreaking research on #LeadContamination in turmeric in 🇧🇩, in collaboration with icddr,b, has truly made a difference in public health. #TIME100HEALTH

Under-/no immunization rate among children is high (32%) in hard-to-reach areas in Bangladesh, especially in urban slums (58.9%) and wetlands (38.4%) . Unavailability of government-issued EPI card for vaccine access is a major barrier to vaccine coverage.
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Exposure to air pollution linked to vehicle exhaust and fossil fuels increased risk of emergency visits and hospitalizations for mental disorders in Hefei, China. The risk declined post-COVID-19 outbreak, possibly due to staying indoors and wearing masks.
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Blood protein levels are often measured in serum or plasma, which differ in how they are collected and processed. icddr,b scientists recently helped show that plasma proteins are more predictive of gestational age among pregnant women than serum proteins. cutt.ly/7wQiA06e

Malnutrition is common among Rohingya women, with 26.7% of pregnant women being undernourished, likely reflecting that ~64% and 46% of non-pregnant and pregnant women, respectively, have low dietary diversity. Read more:
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A social safety net-based parenting and nutrition programme developed by icddr,b improved the cognitive, language, and motor development of children aged 6-16 months, a new study published in The Lancet Reg Health-Southeast Asia reports. Read more:

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icddr,b Senior Scientist Dr. Rubhana Raqib provided commentary in The Lancet on a promising Phase 1 vaccine trial for typhoid and paratyphoid, highlighting the importance of the vaccine as there is currently none approved for paratyphoid.

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Curious to know what icddr,b has been doing the last few months? Check out our quarterly News Digest at 👉 cutt.ly/ew8aqEYQ

The therapeutic food MDCF-2 has been designed to repair the gut microbiome in malnourished children. icddr,b scientists helped show in a recent Nature Microbiology paper how the bacteria Prevotella copri helps metabolize MDCF-2 and mediate weight gain in Bangladeshi children.

The latest DefeatDD blog coauthored by Dr Mahbubur Rahman from icddr,b highlights a recent study that shows during monsoon season, #WASH interventions could prevent 734 #diarrhoea cases per 1,000 children under three years old per month in rural 🇧🇩.👉cutt.ly/Fw98RFga