The International Women’s Health Day was observed in Dinajpur on Tuesday. Bangladesh Mahila Parishad Dinajpur unit organised elaborate programmes to observe the day.

World Bank (WB) approved a US$ 359 million credit for Bangladesh to support the government efforts to improve health services, especially for women, children, the poor and the marginalised.

Speakers at an advocacy workshop here on Sunday said that the existing infant and maternal mortality and  morbidity rate could be reduced to a greater extent through expediting the primary healthcare services.

Sadullapur Upazila Health Complex remained shut for four hours from 10:00am on Monday as doctors locked all units, protesting assault on hospital in charge Dr Akhter Alam by one of their colleagues.

From the food pyramid to the Internet to your local bookstore, there is certainly no shortage of advice on nutrition and healthy eating. But with all the media hype surrounding many “health foods,” it can be hard for a woman to tell the nutrients from advertising ploys.

An elderly woman, financially unable to cure herself from different complications she has been suffering for long, committed suicide in the city yesterday.

Three United Nations agencies and the government will implement a joint programme to promote food security and nutrition for ultra-poor families and children in the country.

Imagine a health worker — she saves lives every single day. She is amazing! Like many of us she may dream more; and that dream might take her to big cities. Maybe you don’t have to imagine this much — this is what is happening time and time again around us.

Bangladesh is all set for developing further the world’s first-ever vitamin A-rich rice.A genetically engineered variety, the Golden Rice will go through greenhouse and field tests before advancing into production phase.

A female prisoner with HIV/AIDS from Narayanganj jail died at the city’s Infectious Disease Hospital (IDH), Mohakhali in the city on Thursday.

Officials of Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution with the help of Rab yesterday seized illegally produced and marketed honey, edible oil and cosmetics items at a restaurant and a factory in Gulshan and Banani.

Bangladesh’s women still cannot make critical healthcare decisions on which their lives and future depend, experts say.

In Bangladesh, the main strategy for improving access of poor and vulnerable people to health services has so far been supply side financing. The outcome of this strategy is that the vulnerable people, like pregnant mothers, still have poor access to public health services, even though these services are free or subsidized. That means, supply [...]

The government will provide maternity allowance to all working women, including female garment workers.

In spite of commendable feminist activities of numerous social workers and NGOs, women continue to be mistreated in every sphere of the society. It is a myth that women who are educated or financially independent are free. They too are hapless victims of various social conventions and norms.