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Background: Tuberculosis is one of the most dangerous chronic infectious diseases in Bangladesh. It is the major public health problem in this country. Mycobacterium tuberculosis is a commonly responsible organism of tuberculosis. It is an airborne disease that spreads through the coughing of an infected person.
The Bangladesh health policy document was published in 2011 and adheres to the following : Health is defined as "A state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity." [1] Every citizen has the basic right to adequate health care.
Institute of Public Health was established in 1952 as the Combined Public Health Laboratories and renamed to Institute of Public Health in 1953. The institute has nearly one thousand researchers and academics underneath it. It offers post-graduate degrees and is located on 47.8-acre site in Mohakhali, Dhaka. [3]
INASP initiated BanglaJOL in June 2007 and officially launched it in September 2007. [2] The Bangladesh Academy of Sciences assumed management of BanglaJOL in 2014. [3]It is a database of open access journals published in Bangladesh, dealing with the full range of academic disciplines including both paper based and online only publications.
The Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control And Research (IEDCR) (Bengali: রোগতত্ত্ব, রোগ নিয়ন্ত্রণ ও গবেষণা ইনস্টিটিউট) is a Bangladesh government research institute, under the Ministry of Health, responsible for researching epidemiological and communicable disease in Bangladesh as well as disease control.
Zafrullah Chowdhury (27 December 1941 – 11 April 2023) was a Bangladeshi public health activist. He was the founder of Gonoshasthaya Kendra , a rural healthcare organisation. He was known more for his work in formulating the Bangladesh National Drug Policy in 1982.
It is also responsible for all government programs relating to family planning in Bangladesh. The present adviser is Nurjahan Begum. [3] The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare contains two divisions: [4] [5] Health Services Division and Medical Education And Family Welfare Division.
Bangladesh has experienced outbreaks of the Nipah virus and although a vaccine exists, the vaccine option is not well developed and preventing outbreaks without vaccines is a better option in this case. [6] Bangladesh began a vaccination program for congenital rubella syndrome in 2012 and since then, cases have gone down greatly. [7]