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2009

20 Years of HIV in Bangladesh: experiences and way forward.

Azim T, Khan SI, Nahar Q, Reza M, Alam N, Saifi R, et al. The World Bank, UNAIDS. Dhaka: 2009.

An assessment of community readiness for HIV/AIDS preventive interventions in rural Bangladesh.
Aboud F, Huq NL, Larson CP, Ottisova L. Social Science & Medicine 2009, Nov 3

Assessment of utilization of the HIV interventions by the sex-workers in selected brothels in Bangladesh: an explorative study.
Huq NL, Chowdhury ME. ICDDR,B Scientific Report No. 107; September 2009.

Assessment of non-marital sexual behavior of men in Bangladesh: a methodological experiment using modified confidential ballot-box method.

Chowdhury ME, Alam N, Anwar I et al. International Journal of STD & AIDS (in press, accepted on 10 June 2009).

The cost effectiveness of consistent and early intervention of harm reduction for injecting drug users in Bangladesh.

Guinness L, Vickerman P, Quayyum Z, Foss A, Watts C, Rodericks A, Azim T, Jana S, Kumaranayake L. Addiction (in press).

Risk behaviour network and vulnerability to HIV infection of migrant female sex workers in Teknaf, Bangladesh.

Gazi R, Kabir H, Pervin S. Pakistan J Women’s Stud 2009;16(1&2):55-70

Young clients of hotel-based sex workers in Bangladesh: vulnerability to HIV, risk perceptions, and expressed needs for interventions.

Gazi R, Khan SI, Haseen F, Sarma H, Islam MA, Wirtz AL, Rahman M. In J Sex Health 2009;21:167-82

Understanding the operational dynamics and possible HIV interventions for residence-based female sex workers in two divisional cities in Bangladesh.

National AIDS/STD Programme (NASP), Save the Children-USA, and ICDDR,B. 2009. Dhaka, Bangladesh: NASP, Save the Children-USA and ICDDR,B.

Creating Conditions for Scaling Up Access to Life Skills Based Sexual and Reproductive Health Education and Condom Services: Strengthening Safe Sex Decision-Making.

National AIDS/STD Programme (NASP), Save the Children-USA, ICDDR,B, and Population Council. 2009. Dhaka, Bangladesh: NASP, Save the Children-USA and ICDDR,B.

Exploring acceptable and appropriate interventions to promote correct and consistent condom use among young male clients of hotel-based female sex workers in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

National AIDS/STD Programme (NASP), Save the Children-USA, and ICDDR,B. 2009. Dhaka, Bangladesh: NASP, Save the Children-USA and ICDDR,B.

Impact of an HIV/AIDS prevention entertainment education program.

National AIDS/STD Programme (NASP), Save the Children-USA, and ICDDR,B. 2009. Dhaka, Bangladesh: NASP, Save the Children-USA, and ICDDR,B.

Improving STI services of non-formal providers through academic detailing by medical representatives.

National AIDS/STD Programme (NASP), Save the Children-USA, and ICDDR,B. 2009. Dhaka, Bangladesh: NASP, Save the Children-USA and ICDDR,B.

Rapid assessment of a short film on HIV/AIDS in Bangladesh.

National AIDS/STD Programme (NASP), Save the Children-USA, and ICDDR,B. 2009. Dhaka, Bangladesh: NASP, Save the Children-USA, and ICDDR,B.

Preventing HIV among youth through life skills education programs: findings from a rapid assessment study.

National AIDS/STD Programme (NASP), Save the Children-USA, and ICDDR,B. 2009. Dhaka, Bangladesh: NASP, Save the Children-USA, and ICDDR,B.

Rapid assessment of the role of teachers’ training in HIV/AIDS prevention in two selected districts in Bangladesh.

National AIDS/STD Programme (NASP), Save the Children-USA and ICDDR,B. 2009. Dhaka, Bangladesh: NASP, Save the Children-USA and ICDDR,B.

Documenting knowledge transfer capacity building for an HIV prevention project.

National AIDS/STD Programme (NASP), Save the Children-USA, and ICDDR,B. 2009. Dhaka, Bangladesh: NASP, Save the Children-USA, and ICDDR,B.

STI knowledge and practices of private providers in Bangladesh.

National AIDS/STD Programme (NASP), Save the Children, USA, and ICDDR, B. 2009.Dhaka, Bangladesh: NASP, Save the Children-USA and ICDDR, B.

2008

Global epidemiology of injecting drug use and HIV among people who inject drugs: a systematic review.

Mathers BM, Degenhardt L, Phillips B, Wiessing L, Hickman M, Strathdee SA, Wodak A, Panda S, Tyndall M, Toufik A, Mattick RP; 2007 Reference Group to the UN on HIV and Injecting Drug Use. Lancet 2008. 372:1733-45.

Molecular evidence for polyphyletic origin of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 subtype C in Bangladesh.

Sarker MS, RahmanM, Yirrell D, Khan R, Campbell E, Islam LN, AzimT. Virus Research 2008. 135:89-94. (Full text available)

Prevalence of infections, HIV risk behaviors and factors associated with HIV infection among male injecting drug users attending a needle/syringe exchange program in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Azim T, Chowdhury EI, Reza M, Faruque MO, Ahmed G, Khan R, Rahman M, Pervez MM, Jana S, Strathdee SA. Subst Use Misuse 2008 Dec;43(14):2124-44 (Full text available)

Bangladesh moves from being a low-prevalence nation for HIV to one with a concentrated epidemic in injecting drug users.

Azim T, Rahman M, Alam MS, Chowdhury IA, Khan R, Reza M, Rahman M, Chowdhury EI, Hanifuddin M, Rahman ASMM. Int J STD AIDS 2008 May;19(5):327-31 (Full text available)

HIV and AIDS in Bangladesh.

Azim T, Khan SI, Haseen F, Huq NL, Henning L, Pervez MM, Chowdhury ME, Sarafian I. J Health Popul Nutr 2008 Sep;26(3):311-24 (Full text available)

An assessment of vulnerability to HIV infection of boatmen in Teknaf, Bangladesh.

Gazi R, Mercer A, Wansom T, Kabir H, Saha NC, Azim T. Confl Health 2008 Mar 14;2(1):5 (Full text available)

The effectiveness of respondent driven sampling for recruiting males who have sex with males in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Johnston LG, Khanam R, Reza M, Khan SI, Banu S, Alam MS, Rahman M, Azim T. AIDS Behav 2008 Mar;12(2):294-304 (Full text available)

Field evaluation of simple rapid tests in the diagnosis of syphilis.

Nessa K, Alam A, Chowdhury FAH, Huq M, Nahar S, Salauddin G, Khursheed S, Rahman S, Gurley E, Breiman RF, Rahman M. Int J STD AIDS 2008 May;19(5):316-20

Prevalence of Mycoplasma genitalium in health clinic attendees complaining of vaginal discharge in Bangladesh.

Rahman S, Garland S, Currie M, Tabrizi SN, Rahman M, Nessa K, Bowden FJ. Int J STD AIDS 2008 Nov;19(11):772-4

Knowledge and perceptions of rural adolescent girls of Bangladesh on STD and HIV/AIDS.

Uddin MJ. South Asian Anthropol 2008;8(2):111-6

Is HIV infection associated with an increased risk for cholera? Findings from a case-control study in Mozambique.

von Seidlein L, Wang XY, Macuamule A, Mondlane C, Puri M, Hendriksen I, Deen JL, Chaignat CL, Clemens JD, Ansaruzzaman M, Barreto A, Songane FF, Lucas M. Trop Med Int Health 2008 May;13(5):683-8

2007

Sexually transmitted infections and risk factors among truck stand workers in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Alam N, Rahman M, Gausia K, Yunus M, Islam N, Chaudhury P, Monira S, Funkhouser E, Vermund SH, Killewo J. Sex Transm Dis. 2007 Feb;34(2):99-103.

Reaching out to the regular female sex partners of non-injecting and injecting drug users (IDUs): a need highlighted by research findings and ways to address it demonstrated by a regional HIV intervention project from South Asia.

Panda S, Azim T, Rehman NU, Poudel G, Chaudhuri A. Substance Use & Misuse, 2007 42: 895 – 898. (Full text available)

Could the CARE-SHAKTI intervention for injecting drug users be maintaining the low HIV prevalence in Dhaka, Bangladesh?

Foss AM, Watts CH, Vickerman P, Azim T, Guinness L, Ahmed M, Rodericks A, Jana S. Addiction 2007 Jan;102(1):114-25 (Full text available)

Sexual risk behavior of married men and women in Bangladesh associated with husbands’ work migration and living apart.

Mercer A, Khanam R, Gurley E, Azim T. Sex Transm Dis 2007 May;34(5):265-73 (Full text available)

Multiple Mycobacterium tuberculosis infections in an HIV infected patient—a case report.

van der Zanden AGM, Rahim Z, Fedder G, Adrichem J V-v, Sebens FW, Heilmann FGC, van Sookingen D. Southeast Asian J Trop

Med Public Health. 2007 Jul;38(4):704-5

An assessment of community readiness for HIV/AIDS prevention interventions in rural Bangladesh.

National AIDS/STD Programme and Save the Children-USA with ICDDR,B.

An analysis of social, behavioral and biomedical risk factors of adolescents and youth clients of female sex workers: implication for STI/HIB/AIDS intervention in Bangladesh.

National AIDS/STD Programme and Save the Children-USA with ICDDR,B.

2006

Vulnerability to HIV infection among sex worker and non-sex worker female injecting drug users in Dhaka, Bangladesh: evidence from the baseline survey of a cohort study.

Azim T, Chowdhury EI, Reza M, Ahmed M, Uddin MT, Khan R, Ahmed G, Rahman M, Khandakar I, Khan SI, Sack DA, Strathdee SA. Harm Reduct J 2006 Nov 17;3:33 (Full text available)

Evaluation of goat blood as substitute for sheep blood in modified Thayer-Martin agar medium for culture and isolation of Neisseria gonorrhoeae.

Chawdhury FAH, Sultana J, Rahman M. Sex Transm Dis 2006 Mar;33(3):181-2

Assessment of sexual behavior of men in Bangladesh: a methodological experiment.

Edited by M. Shamsul Islam Khan. Dhaka. Chowdhury ME, Anwar I, Alam N, Ahmed A, DasGupta S, Mridha MK, Bashir I, Streatfield PK, Mallick PS. Family Health International, 2006.viii, 84 p

Alterations in serum levels of trace elements in tuberculosis and HIV infections.

Kassu A, Yabutani T, Mahmud ZH, Mohammad A, Nguyen N, Huong BT, Hailemariam G, Diro E, Ayele B, Wondmikun Y, Motonaka J, Ota F. Eur J Clin Nutr 2006 May;60(5):580-6

‘Semen contains vitality and heredity, not germs’: seminal discourse in the AIDS era.

Khan SI, Hudson-Rodd N, Saggers S, Bhuiyan MI, Bhuiya A, Karim SA, Rauyajin O. J Health Popul Nutr 2006 Dec;24(4):426-37

Baseline HIV/AIDS survey among youth in Bangladesh 2005.

Larson CP, Rahman M, Haseen F, Uddin AHN, Rahman DMM, Khan MSH, Rahman APMS, Chakraborty N, Nasrin T, Bhuiya I, Rob, U. 35 p. (Special publication no. 122)

Rapid assessment of young people’s perspectives on government, NGO and private health services.

ICDDR,B.

Baseline HIV/AIDS survey among youth in Bangladesh.

National AIDS/STD Programme and Save the Children-USA with ICDDR,B, ACPR and Population Council.

2005

National HIV serological surveillance, 2004-2005, Bangladesh: sixth round technical report.

Azim T, Rahman M, Alam MS, Chowdhury IA, Rahman M, Reza M. Dhaka: Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of Bangladesh, 2005. 47 p. (Full text available)

Low HIV infection rates among tuberculosis patients in Dhaka, Bangladesh (letter).

Alam MS, Sarker MS, Mahmud AM, Faruq AKMMR, Begum J, de Colombani P, Yirrell D, Sack DA, Azim T. Int J STD AIDS. 2005 Jan;16(1):86-8 (Full text available)

Does funding for HIV and sexually transmitted disease prevention matter? Evidence from panel data.

Chesson HW, Harrison P, Scotton CR, Varghese B. Eval Rev 2005 Feb;29(1):3-23

Men who have sex with men’s sexual relations with women in Bangladesh (short report).

Khan SI, Hudson-Rodd N, Saggers S, Bhuiya A. Cult Health Sexualit 2005 Mar;7(2):159-69

Sexually transmitted infections among brothel-based sex workers in Bangladesh: high prevalence of asymptomatic infection.

Nessa K, Waris SA, Alam A, Huq M, Nahar S, Chawdhury FAH, Monira S, Badal MU, Sultana J, Mahmud KF, Das J, Mitra DK, Sultan Z, Hossain N, Rahman M. Sex Trans Dis 2005 Jan;32(1):13-9

A report on assessment of community readiness for HIV/AIDS prevention interventions in rural Bangladesh.

‘Larson CP, Huq NL, Ottisova L. A collaborative project between National AIDS/STD Program, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare and Save the Children, USA. Funded by GFATM. International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh. June 2007.