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LONDON, 26 November 2013 (IRIN) - In health terms, Bangladesh is a “positive deviant”, performing far better, given its widespread poverty, than anyone could have expected. The London-based medical journal, The Lancet, recently published a series…
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HIGHLIGHTS Retail price of food: Overall the prices of basic food items except for rice were stable during the current quarter. The average retail price of coarse rice in September was 31.59 Tk/kg which is 31 percent…
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A programme in Bangladesh trains community health workers to provide essential maternal and newborn care in remote villages. By Munima Sultana On 13 September, UNICEF and partners reveal new numbers on global progress towards ending preventable child deaths.…
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Joint press release DHAKA, 21 July 2013 – The Government of Bangladesh today committed to ending preventable child deaths in the country before 2035. This commitment builds on the impressive progress that Bangladesh has made in reducing…
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Posted by Norul Amin Economic and Private Sector Coordinator Panjar Bhanga is a village tucked beside a bridge over the Teesta river, which flows into Bangladesh from neighbouring India. It is a sleepy, peaceful place, where life…
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DHAKA, 11 April 2013 (IRIN) - Food can just as easily kill as it keeps people alive, experts have learned in Bangladesh, where excessive use of pesticide, unregulated street food and lack of awareness about food…
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January 21, 2013 This year Bangladesh has experienced its coldest winter in the last forty-five years, with temperatures dropping to two degree Celsius in some areas in the North. The cold wave began sweeping across the country…
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DHAKA, 31 December 2012 (PlusNews) - Even though HIV prevalence in Bangladesh is as low as 0.1 percent of the 160 million population, experts fear that widespread discrimination towards people who test positive for HIV may…
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DHAKA, BANGLADESH – The Asian Development Bank (ADB) today signed an agreement to lend $25.1 million to Bangladesh’s largest food manufacturer, the PRAN group, to help the firm build three food manufacturing plants. “The new plants will…
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second year in brief The Global Agriculture and Food Security Program (GAFSP) was launched on April 22, 2010 after the 2009 G20 Summit requested that the World Bank establish a multilateral mechanism to address food security in…
