Sanitation coverage in Bangladesh since the millennium: consistency matters

Sanitation System Legitimacy In Bangladesh

In past decades, an extraordinary amount of effort and resources have been spent to extend basic civil infrastructure such as water, sanitation, and energy systems to developing communities. While the construction of this infrastructure is well intended, recent improved monitoring and evaluation of these projects has called new attention to the problem of unsustainable infrastructure. Specifica...

Achieving the Millennium Development Goals in Bangladesh

in Dhaka a review of some major health issues of Bangladesh—at least those in which ICDDR,B has expertise. The aim of this review was to identify selected key issues, try to understand the trends over the last one to two decade(s), and to interpret these trends in the light of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). It was hoped these trends would show that Bangladesh was on target to meet these g...

Financing the Millennium Development Goals for Water and Sanitation:

Consistency matters: the practice of clinical pharmacy.

F or almost 20 years, I have practised as a clinical pharmacist, trained to deliver pharmaceutical care through the identification , resolution, and prevention of drug-related problems, to improve medication use, and to optimize individual therapeutic outcomes. As I refined my skills as a clinician and built on the training of the many great mentors I had during my early career, I developed a c...

Flagging global sanitation target threatens other Millennium Development Goals.

News region as " deplorable. " Many have lost all their possessions and are living in the open without any facilities. Although huge numbers of people are injured, there is no medical care, said WFP staff. " It is a very, very alarming situation, " said Getachew Diriba, WFP Senior Programme Officer for Sudan, who had recently visited the region with a delegation from the European Union. " No ma...