Stakeholder Engagement Meeting-Tobacco Control Capacity Programme (TCCP)

Bangladesh has one of the largest populations of tobacco users in the world, with 37.8 million adults consuming tobacco products. Although the overall prevalence of tobacco use among adults declined from 43.3 percent to 35.3 percent between 2009 and 2017, the rate of cigarette smoking remains alarmingly high, with no change observed during that period.
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Gender and Intersectionality Webinar – 10 January 2022

A webinar was arranged on ‘Gender and Intersectionality Planning” on 10th January 2022.  The objective of the webinar was to provide guidance on using the gender and intersectionality framework (CHORUS’ Gender and Intersectionality Guide) to reflect on the data collection and to further shape the health systems intervention to be developed as part of the
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Strengthening primary healthcare to achieve universal health coverage

By Rumana Huque The World Health Organisation (WHO) strongly promotes the primary care principles enshrined in the 1978 Alma Ata declaration which emphasises equity, inter-sectoral collaboration, access to essential drugs, appropriate health technology, and comprehensive care. A Primary Health Care (PHC) approach from a services delivery perspective can be characterised as primary care: the continuum
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CLASS III awareness-raising animation video on Second-Hand Smoke (SHS) exposure

We are excited to launch the awareness video on the harmful impact of secondhand smoke (SHS) exposure intended to educate and sensitize tobacco users, policymakers, and local law regulators in Bangladesh, as part of the CLASS III (Children’s Learning About Second-hand Smoke) cluster randomized controlled trial (cRCT). This trial aims to prevent respiratory and other smoking-related illnesses in
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Illicit tobacco trade : Underreporting in Bangladesh perspective

Effectiveness of tobacco control initiatives is subject to the status of trade regulations of a region. As a direct effect of trade liberalisation by many countries, the world has experienced stimulation in trade volume of tobacco and tobacco products in recent years. Reduction in trade barriers might increase possibility of tobacco marketing and reduce their
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TB & Tobacco project findings shared in the 50th Union World Conference on Lung Health

Representatives from ARK Foundation and its partners from UK and Nepal joined the 50th Union World Conference on Lung Health held in Hyderabad, India from 30th October to 2nd November 2019. A 3 hours session was dedicated to “The importance of smoking cessation in Tuberculosis (TB) patients. Evidence from observational studies, randomised controlled-trials, process evaluation
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It is High Time to Introduce Tobacco cessation within the TB Control Programme

In Bangladesh, every year, more than 350,000 people are affected by Tuberculosis (TB), and more than 70,000 people die due to the same. 20% of the deaths are attributed to tobacco. These toll of death can easily be avoided by collecting information and counselling on tobacco use among TB patients by the TB care providers.
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Using Community Dialogue to tackle antibiotic resistance in Bangladesh

The spread of antibiotic resistance is an issue of growing global concern. It is often cited as one of the most critical threats to global health, food security and development. Our study named ‘Community Dialogue’ was on the assumption that successfully changing people’s behaviour requires innovative and participatory community engagement and aimed to develop, adapt
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ARK Foundation is proud to be part of the BER International Conference 2019

Dr. Rumana Huque, Professor, Department of Economics, University of Dhaka and Executive Director, ARK Foundation, moderated a panel discussion on “Sustainable Health Financing ” yesterday, in International Conference for Economists organized jointly by Bureau of Economic Research and Department of Economics, University of Dhaka. Among the panelists were Professor Sushil Ranjan Howlader, Founder Director of
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News Coverage of our Webinar

Multiple news media covered our webinar titled “Health System Response to COVID-19: Learning Across Bangladesh and Vietnam” held on 30 June 2020. Below are the names of the news media. Interested readers, just click on the name to read the news: English News:   Bengali News:
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