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Drug treatment management and mental health care training manual review workshop

Proper guidelines for professionals are essential in providing quality services. With this in mind, Dhaka Ahsania Mission Health Sector organized a day-long consultation workshop on June 2, 2022, under the JPRPHRPC project supported by GIZ, to finalize the Drug Treatment Management Training Manual and the Training Guide on Mental Health Care. In the inaugural session of the workshop, UNAIDS Country Representative Dr. Saima Khan, UNFPA Technical Officer, Dr. Rahat Nur, Technical Specialist (Clinical Service) of Save the Children Dr. Ahmed Muttasim Billah, Sentence Planning Officer of GIZ Khan Mohammad Ilias, Iqbal Masud, Director Health and WASH Sector of Dhaka Ahsania Mission and KSM Tarique, Joint Director Health Sector of Dhaka Ahsania Mission were present. The workshop was attende...

May312022 by No Comments

Thousands of Student take Oath Demanding Tobacco-Free Bangladesh

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Thousands of Student take Oath Demanding Tobacco-Free Bangladesh Nearly thousands of students have taken oath to achieve tobacco-free Bangladesh. The swearing-in ceremony was held at the Bangladesh Shishu Academy auditorium on Tuesday, May 31, at a discussion titled 'Tobacco: A Threat to the Environment' organized by the Bangladesh Parliamentary Forum for Health and Wellbeing. The students also demanded to ensure 100% smoke free environment by banning restaurant smoking zone. State Minister for Women and Children Affairs Fazilatun Nesa Indira MP was present as the chief guest at the discussion meeting which was held in the presence of thousands of students from different schools, colleges, girl guides and scouts. Distinguished academician and fiction writer prof. dr. Muhammad Zafar I...

May302022 by No Comments

World No Tobacco Day Tomorrow: Stop Tobacco Aggression through Tougher Law and Tax Measures: PROGGA Demands

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Tomorrow (31 May 2022, Tuesday) is World No Tobacco Day. With a view to raising awareness among the people and policymakers on the environmental impact of tobacco cultivation, products manufacturing, and use, and also to expose the tobacco industry’s effort to “greenwash” the havoc it wrecks; the World Health Organization (WHO) has set the theme for 2022 World No Tobacco Day, to be globally celebrated on 31 May, as “Tobacco: Threat to our environment." By emitting 84 million tonnes of carbon dioxide a year, wasting 22 billion tonnes of water to produce 6 trillion cigarettes, and destroying 600 million trees, the tobacco company is massively contributing to climate change, damaging natural resources and ecosystems worldwide. Approximately 4.5 trillion cigarette butts, the most littered item...

May192022 by No Comments

Bangladeshi MPs attends World Largest MP Conference to Archive Tobacco-Free Bangladesh

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Around 40 Members of Parliament (MPs) joined at a conference on “Achieving Tobacco-Free Bangladesh by 2040” in Cox’s Bazar on 18 May 2022 to realize this vision of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. This has been recognized as the largest conference in Bangladesh and globally as well of MPs where have come together against tobacco consumption. The three-day long conference has been started from Wednesday at Sea Pearl Beach Hotel at Cox's Bazar The event was organized by the Bangladesh Parliamentary Forum for Health and Wellbeing with the support of Shastho Shurokkha Foundation (SSF) and Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids (CTFK), Bangladesh. In the inauguration, session was chaired by Prof. Dr. Habibe Millat, MP, Chairman of the Forum. Honorable Foreign Minister Dr A K Abdul Momen MP delivered his ...

May172022 by No Comments

New vision entrepreneurship initiative to improve access to vision care for 2 crore people in Bangladesh

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A joint initiative by MetLife Foundation and EssilorLuxottica’s Social Impact Fund will help create over 800 vision entrepreneurs by 2023 to provide quality vision care services including vision testing and making eyeglasses for 2 crore people in rural Bangladesh. With a pooled fund of USD 1 million, which includes equal contributions from MetLife Foundation and EssilorLuxottica’s Social Impact Fund, the program is implemented by TMSS (Thengamara Mohila Sabuj Sangha), one of the largest development organizations in Bangladesh. TMSS conducts the recruitment and training of vision care providers known as vision entrepreneurs and provides them with other technical and non-technical assistance as needed to both establish as well as manage their business. The funding will enable TMSS to set up...

Apr262022 by No Comments

Speakers for increasing prices of low-tier cigarettes

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Speakers at a seminar today proposed raising the price of low-tier cigarettes to boost revenue generation for the government and also minimize health risks. They said although the low-tier cigarettes occupy almost 75 percent of the whole industry, their price remained unchanged over the last two years. As a result, the number of smokers at this level is not declining. The speakers came up with such suggestions at a seminar organized jointly by Dhaka Ahsania Mission and the Economic Reporters’ Forum (ERF), titled ‘Tobacco Price and Tax’, held at the ERF auditorium in the capital on Saturday, according to a press statement. Presided over by ERF President Sharmeen Rinvy, its general secretary SM Rashidul Islam, Dhaka Ahsania Mission deputy director Mokhlesur Rahman, CTFK Grants manag...

Apr212022 by No Comments

Tobacco must be controlled to save youth: Speaker

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Smoking among young people has risen in recent times, posing a threat to the country's public health. Therefore, in addition to raising public awareness against the harmful effects of tobacco products, it is important to amend the existing tobacco control law and enforce it, said the Speaker of Parliament Dr. Shirin Sharmin Chowdhury MP. She said this while talking to the 'Bangladesh Parliamentary Forum for Health and Wellbeing' at her office on today Thursday, April 12. The Speaker Said, 'The government taking numbers of initiatives to prevent Non-Communicable Disease. But if we could not control the use of tobacco products, all these initiatives will be useless. The use of tobacco products including smoking is increasing among the youth in the country day by day. If we want to prot...

Apr192022 by No Comments

Huawei Organizes Campus Recruitment Event at IUT

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Huawei Bangladesh has recently organized a campus recruitment event at the Islamic University of Technology (IUT). The top few participant students will be getting opportunity to work with this leading global ICT infrastructure and solutions provider of the world and this country. Abu Raihan Mostofa Kamal, Professor & Head of the Department of CSE, IUT; Dr. Hasan Mahmud, Assistant Professor, Department of CSE, IUT; Md. Fara Newas, Senior HR Manager of Huawei; Md Iftakhairul Alam Shehab, HR Manager, Huawei; Md Khalid Hossain, HR Executive were present at the event. Abu Raihan Mostofa Kamal, Professor & Head of the Department of CSE of IUT, says about this initiative, “We appreciate the fact that Huawei has come to our campus to hire students from our campus. It is fact that ev...

Apr42022 by No Comments

Letter to 350 MPs for tobacco tax and price increase in the budget

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Kazi Rafiqul Alam, President of Dhaka Ahsania Mission (DAM), has recently written a request letter to 350 MPs to take a role in formulating and implementing a strong tobacco tariff policy for the upcoming 2022-23 fiscal year budget to increase the price of all tobacco products including cigarettes and to build a tobacco-free Bangladesh 2040 as announced by the Hon'ble Prime Minister. In a letter addressed to each Member of Parliament separately, Kazi Rafiqul Alam said, "Since 2009, the current government has carried out massive socio-economic development, as well as tobacco control activities, has been strengthened." Tobacco use has decreased by 18.5 percent in 2017 (relative reduction) as compared to 2009. Although this reduction in tobacco use in a short period of time is a sign of th...

Apr32022 by No Comments

MPs are committed to implement tobacco-free Bangladesh: Bangladesh Parliamentary Forum

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Every year, 67% of the country's total deaths are due to non-communicable diseases (NCDs), mainly due to the use of tobacco products. Realizing this harmful effect of tobacco, Hon'ble Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has announced to make Bangladesh tobacco free by 2040. ‘Bangladesh Parliamentary Forum for Health and Wellbeing’ is a forum related to public health formed by members of parliament, working to achieve tobacco-free Bangladesh by 2040 as the Prime Minister declared. The forum wants to work at all levels to achieve the national goal. These issues came up during a discussion meeting with the journalists on April 2, Saturday at the Nasrul Hamid Auditorium of Dhaka Reporters' Unity (DRU) on 'Tobacco Control Activities to Achieve a Tobacco-Free Bangladesh by 2040'. Former State Min...