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Time for a comprehensive law to regulate unhealthy foods (opens the original)
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The country’s nutrition problem is becoming harder to ignore. The Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey (BDHS) 2022 found that, among children aged 6 to 23 months, 32 percent had consumed a sugary beverage the previous day, 49 percent had eaten unhealthy foods, and 46 percent had eaten no fruit or vegetables. These are children whose food preferences are only beginning to form. Among adults, the Bangladesh STEPS survey 2022 found that 96.2 percent consumed fewer than the recommended five dail
Our health system is better resourced now. Why can’t it still deliver? (opens the original)
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A hospital may own an X-ray machine, but that does not mean patients can get an X-ray. An ultrasound machine may be fully functional yet effectively useless if there is no trained technologist to operate it. This distinction between possessing health system inputs and actually delivering healthcare is becoming increasingly important for Bangladesh. Successive Bangladesh Health Facility Surveys (BHFS), however, show real progress in infrastructure and equipment. Between 2017 and 2022, the proport
A new chance to fix urban primary healthcare in Bangladesh (opens the original)
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More than 40 percent Bangladeshis live in urban areas, 35 percent of whom reside in slums, according to the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics’ 2022 census. But urban primary healthcare services are still delivered by a fragmented mix of providers: the health ministry operates urban dispensaries and hospital outpatient departments, city corporations run some facilities, and NGOs manage contracted and donor-supported clinics. Private chambers, diagnostic centres, pharmacies, and informal providers d
Why are we still struggling to make health insurance work? (opens the original)
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Bangladesh has committed itself to achieving universal health coverage (UHC), ensuring that everyone can access necessary health services without suffering financial hardship. Yet, out-of-pocket payments continue to finance most healthcare, forcing families to borrow money, sell assets, or forego treatment altogether. Recognising this challenge, the government’s Health Care Financing Strategy identified health insurance as a key instrument to reduce out-of-pocket spending and accelerate progress
Rethinking Bangladesh's health sector reform after SWAp (opens the original)
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After more than two and a half decades of being in operation, the Health, Population and Nutrition Sector Programme (HPNSP) was discontinued by the interim government last year. Operating under the health ministry since 1998, the HPNSP oversaw basic health, nutrition and family planning services across the country. The concern that follows this decision is only natural: does Bangladesh have a credible alternative to sustain the gains achieved through the programme over a quarter of a century, wh
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