Bangladesh
Country Contact
Setara Rahman, Technical Director/Country Lead
Email: Setara.Rahman@jhpiego.org
House #10/B, Apt #3, Road #90
Gulshan-2, North Dhaka 1212
Bangladesh
Current and Recent Donors
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance
Margaret A. Cargill Philanthropies
UNFPA
USAID
Since 1999, our goal in Bangladesh has been to protect women’s health.
- Jhpiego helped establish a national-level Technical and Advisory Committee for maternal immunization and developed health facilities readiness assessment tools for maternal immunization.
- With the Obstetrical and Gynecological Society of Bangladesh, Jhpiego introduced use of injectable magnesium sulfate for management of severe pre-eclampsia (a condition of pregnancy characterized by high blood pressure and protein in the urine) and eclampsia (the onset of seizures in a woman with severe pre-eclampsia). This lifesaving intervention has been rolled out to 140 health care facilities.
- Jhpiego’s advocacy efforts resulted in a national policy—signed by the Directorate Generals of Health Services, Family Planning (FP) and Nursing and Midwifery—addressing district and upazila (subdistrict) health facility managers to ensure that all midwives in antenatal care units and labor rooms are offering FP services and have FP commodities and supplies available.
- As a result of support under the MaMoni Health Services Strengthening project, 417 Union Health and Family Welfare Centers are now providing 24/7 delivery services in program areas (as compared to 11 at the beginning of the project)—thereby ensuring many more women deliver babies safely in health care facilities. Additionally, 101 Upazila Health Complexes are now providing midwifery-led care services.
Our Technical Areas in Bangladesh
Our Work in Bangladesh
Achieving Universal Access to Sexual and Reproductive Health in Host Communities of Cox’s Bazar
The purpose of this project is to improve maternal, newborn and child health outcomes through increased access to quality postpartum family planning (FP) services. With funding from UNFPA, Jhpiego is enhancing the capacity of six targeted upazilas within Cox’s Bazar District, to increase demand for, and supply of, FP information and services within integrated sexual and reproductive health care. The three overarching areas of focus are: 1) strengthening facilities to provide services; 2) building capacity of health care providers; and 3) creating demand for FP, with special attention on ensuring that counseling uses a rights-based approach and highlights the importance of women making choices best suited to their own needs and comfort. The project also supports implementation of a national FP program with quality service delivery of all FP methods at community, union, upazila and district levels in Cox’s Bazar. This includes tracking uninterrupted availability of supplies and commodities through an electronic logistics management information system and building the capacity of providers on FP clinical skills. To improve the quality of services in health facilities, this project promotes use of basic infection prevention measures and effective counseling in compliance with clinical standards. To identify eligible couples and promote FP use, the project uses mobilization of community-based skilled birth attendants, existing volunteers, community support groups and local government bodies, as well as establishing an effective referral system from community to the service delivery point with a sustainable mechanism for referral compliance tracking, monitoring and evaluation.
Enhancing Global Health Security: Expanding Efforts and Strategies to Protect and Improve Public Health Globally
Funded by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), this five-year project builds upon activities funded by CDC to support Global Health Security through implementation of programs and activities that focus on protecting and improving health globally through partnerships with Ministries of Health and other institutions. With an initial emphasis on addressing the COVID-19 pandemic, the project is supporting countries—including Bangladesh—and carrying out regional work in West Africa and South America to improve prevention of avoidable epidemics, including naturally occurring outbreaks and intentional or accidental releases of dangerous pathogens, and to improve ability to detect threats early and respond rapidly and effectively to public health threats of international concern. The project is being implemented by a Jhpiego-led consortium that includes the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Global Scientific Solutions for Health, and Johns Hopkins University Center for Global Health.
Country Learning Hub Partners for Immunization Equity in Bangladesh
With intensified focus to reach zero dose and under-immunized children and their communities, the Gavi Identify, Reach, Monitor, Measure and Advocate (IRMMA) framework ensures a more systematic approach to reach zero dose children and missed communities. To support this, Gavi is setting up Zero Dose Country Learning Hubs to ensure increased and timely availability of evidence to meet needs prioritized by country-level stakeholders. The goal of this project, funded by Gavi and led by the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), is to establish Zero Dose Country Learning Hubs to provide systematic and robust monitoring and learning for the IRMMA interventions. Jhpiego’s role in this project is to support implementation research, contribute to the development of learning products and participate in the development of a monitoring and learning plan.
Community Nutrition and Health Activity
This project, funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development and led by CARE International, seeks to: 1) strengthen community health systems to deliver nutrition, family planning and health services; 2) improve household nutrition and health behaviors; 3) enhance leadership and governance for improved nutrition; and 4) increase the resilience of communities and households to potential nutrition shocks. As a partner on this project, Jhpiego is providing technical leadership to improve the quality of nutrition, family planning and maternal and child health services at community clinics. Jhpiego is also leading health provider capacity building and training, and the integration of quality improvement at the community health system level.
Country Contact
Setara Rahman, Technical Director/Country Lead
Email: Setara.Rahman@jhpiego.org
House #10/B, Apt #3, Road #90
Gulshan-2, North Dhaka 1212
Bangladesh
Current and Recent Donors
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance
Margaret A. Cargill Philanthropies
UNFPA
USAID