Informes

As the country reels from a suffocating heatwave, Directorate General of Health Services, with UNICEF support, launch guidelines to respond to heat-related risks such as preterm birth and severe heat stress in young children. DHAKA, 5 May…

What happened, where and when? Based on the Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD) data source dated 21 April 2024, severe to very severe, heatwave was sweeping some districts of the country where mild-moderate heatwave was sweeping over most…

Proportional Morbidity & Upsurges/outbreak Epi Week 18, 2024 Proportional Morbidity Acute Respiratory Infections (24.8%), Injury and wounds (3.0%), and Acute Watery Diarrhoea (2.9%), were the diseases and health conditions with the highest proportional morbidity this week. Upsurges/Outbreak There have been four…

Midwives are the heroes of millions of stories. Not only do midwives provide culturally sensitive health care, they are often respected community leaders and emergency responders for crises like climate disasters. Midwives promote health and save lives,…

About the overall initiative & Reports: Zite Manager combines new open-source data management platforms with private-sector best practices to redesign humanitarian operations to be more effective, efficient, and accountable to their objectives. As a complex intervention now…

This epidemiological bulletin aims to provide the situation of key infectious diseases in the WHO South-East Asia region to inform risk assessments and responses. The bulletin uses information from publicly available sources and will be published…

AT A GLANCE Country: Bangladesh Risks: Multi-Hazard Area of Engagement: Promoting resilient infrastructure GFDRR is assisting Bangladesh to enhance the climate resilience of its rural power system through a combination of risk mapping, knowledge transfer, and innovative solutions. RURAL ELECTRICITY ACCESS…

Reporting Period: 1 January to 31 March 2024 Highlights Bangladesh continues to host 978,003 Rohingya refugees from Myanmar in 33 camps in Cox’s Bazar District and Bhasan Char in Noakhali District, 52 per cent of them children (56…

Over the past seven years, Bangladesh has been home to the world's largest refugee settlement. In August 2017, more than 700,000 Rohingya refugees fled Myanmar for neighboring Bangladesh, expanding the refugee population there to nearly 1…

DHAKA, 30 April - Bangladesh[1] has ordered the closure of all primary and secondary schools for another week following country-wide closures last week brought about by a heat wave which kept about 33 million children out…