The Lancet Finds Improvements in Health in Bangladesh

The Lancet, a leading medical journal, recently published a special series on improvements in the survival of infants and children under 5 years of age, life expectancy, immunization coverage, and tuberculosis control in Bangladesh. Calling it a “remarkable success story for health”, the editors note these gains occurred “despite low spending on health care, a weak health system, and widespread poverty.”

The six-part series takes a comprehensive look at one of the “great mysteries of global health”, and this web link also includes podcasts and comments.

Visit our Flickr Site for more Photos!

The lives and experiences of the volunteers, students and faculty are chronicled and shared on this blog regularly, but did you know that you could also stay up to date with the Bangladesh Health Project through photographs?

They say that pictures are worth a thousand words, and indeed, the photos shared on our Flickr site hold a wealth of information that we haven’t yet began to blog about!  Pictures of celebrations, Bangladesh living, the classroom setting and much more can be found at our Flickr site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/bangladesh_healthproject/.  

You can view the entire photostream, or by collection (simply click on the title):

Clinical Teaching Sites Guest House Neighbourhood Scenes Teaching at IUBAT

Have a glimpse of the Bangladesh Health Project as it proceeds overseas and come back often to see what else we’ve been up to!

IUBAT Faculty Member opens Free Friday Clinic

Dr. Gopal, a faculty member at College of Nursing, stands in front of the new Free Friday Clinic that he has opened in cooperation with a welfare association in the IUBAT neighbourhood.  This clinic is open to anyone who is in need on Friday mornings. It is staffed by Dr. Gopal and several other physician volunteers.  IUBAT nursing students will also be assisting Dr. Gopal in this humanitarian endeavour, starting in 2014.