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Infectious Diseases and Vaccine Sciences: Strategic Directions
Despite substantial progress, infectious diseases remain important causes of ill-health and premature deaths in Bangladesh. Bangladesh has experienced a >90% reduction in the incidence of deaths due to childhood diarrhoea over the last 25 years. Further reductions can be achieved through the intr...
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International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh
2008
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2740710/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18831226 |
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author | Luby, Stephen P. Brooks, W. Abdullah Zaman, K. Hossain, Shahed Ahmed, Tahmeed |
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description | Despite substantial progress, infectious diseases remain important causes of ill-health and premature deaths in Bangladesh. Bangladesh has experienced a >90% reduction in the incidence of deaths due to childhood diarrhoea over the last 25 years. Further reductions can be achieved through the introduction of effective vaccines against rotavirus and improvements in home hygiene, quality of drinking-water, and clinical case management, including appropriate use of oral rehydration solution and zinc. Pneumonia is now the leading cause of childhood deaths in Bangladesh, and the pneumonia-specific child mortality is largely unchanged over the last 25 years. Reductions in mortality due to pneumonia can be achieved through the introduction of protein conjugate vaccines against Haemophilus influenza type b and Streptococcus pneumoniae, improvements in case management, including efforts to prevent delays in providing appropriate treatment, and the wider use of zinc. Tuberculosis is responsible for an estimated 70,000 deaths each year in Bangladesh. Although services for directly-observed therapy have expanded markedly, improved case finding and involvement of private practitioners will be important to reduce the burden of disease. |
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spelling | pubmed-27407102010-10-18 Infectious Diseases and Vaccine Sciences: Strategic Directions Luby, Stephen P. Brooks, W. Abdullah Zaman, K. Hossain, Shahed Ahmed, Tahmeed J Health Popul Nutr Article Despite substantial progress, infectious diseases remain important causes of ill-health and premature deaths in Bangladesh. Bangladesh has experienced a >90% reduction in the incidence of deaths due to childhood diarrhoea over the last 25 years. Further reductions can be achieved through the introduction of effective vaccines against rotavirus and improvements in home hygiene, quality of drinking-water, and clinical case management, including appropriate use of oral rehydration solution and zinc. Pneumonia is now the leading cause of childhood deaths in Bangladesh, and the pneumonia-specific child mortality is largely unchanged over the last 25 years. Reductions in mortality due to pneumonia can be achieved through the introduction of protein conjugate vaccines against Haemophilus influenza type b and Streptococcus pneumoniae, improvements in case management, including efforts to prevent delays in providing appropriate treatment, and the wider use of zinc. Tuberculosis is responsible for an estimated 70,000 deaths each year in Bangladesh. Although services for directly-observed therapy have expanded markedly, improved case finding and involvement of private practitioners will be important to reduce the burden of disease. International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh 2008-09 /pmc/articles/PMC2740710/ /pubmed/18831226 Text en © INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR DIARRHOEAL DISEASE RESEARCH, BANGLADESH http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Article Luby, Stephen P. Brooks, W. Abdullah Zaman, K. Hossain, Shahed Ahmed, Tahmeed Infectious Diseases and Vaccine Sciences: Strategic Directions |
title | Infectious Diseases and Vaccine Sciences: Strategic Directions |
title_full | Infectious Diseases and Vaccine Sciences: Strategic Directions |
title_fullStr | Infectious Diseases and Vaccine Sciences: Strategic Directions |
title_full_unstemmed | Infectious Diseases and Vaccine Sciences: Strategic Directions |
title_short | Infectious Diseases and Vaccine Sciences: Strategic Directions |
title_sort | infectious diseases and vaccine sciences: strategic directions |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2740710/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18831226 |
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