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Jun112022 by No Comments

ActionAid Bangladesh’s 2-days long festival on resilience

To celebrate the resilience of communities of Bangladesh and the country’s glorious heritage, culture, and traditions, ActionAid Bangladesh (AAB) organized a 2-days long festival, titled ‘Festival of Resilience: People, Planet and Possibilities.’ Centering around the strength of Bangladesh’s people to strive and rise against all odds, the festival aims to encourage celebration and participation among communities in recognition of their stories of resilience. The festival took place on 9 and 10 June 2022 at Dhaka’s “NCC” (Naveed’s Comedy Club) in Gulshan 2. For decades, the people of Bangladesh have faced countless challenges, such as climate and human-induced disasters, inequalities, economic instability, refugee crisis and pandemic. But every time, the mass bounced back with the power o...

Jun92022 by No Comments

Proposed Budget to Decrease Tobacco Products’ Real Prices and Hike Use among the Poor and the Youth

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The proposed budget, if finally adopted and realized, will increase the use of tobacco products among the poor and the youth. It will hike health expenditure and deprive the government of additional revenue. The proposed budget for FY 2022-23 failed to take into account any of the demands raised by anti-tobacco organizations, and is in grave conflict with the Honorable Prime Minister's vision for a tobacco-free Bangladesh. The proposed budget raises the price for 10 sticks of low-tier cigarettes by only Tk. 1, setting the price at Tk. 40. It shows only a 2.56 percent increase in this tier. Such an increase is negligible considering the fact that the National Per Capita Income (Nominal) has increased by nearly 10 percent. As a result of this budgetary measure, the real price of cigarettes w...

Jun72022 by No Comments

Ensure Safe Food to Reduce Hypertension Risk: Speakers at World Food Safety Day Webinar

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The World Food Safety Day 2022 is being observed with the theme - “Safer food, better health”. The day is of great importance for Bangladesh as consumption of unsafe food is leading to exponential rise in prevalence of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and related mortality in the country. Speakers expressed the importance of safe food for tackling NCDs like hypertension and cardiovascular diseases at a webinar marking World Food Safety Day today on Tuesday, 07 June 2022 organized by research and advocacy organization PROGGA (Knowledge for Progress) with the support from the Global Health Advocacy Incubator (GHAI). It was informed at the webinar that, one in every five (21%) adults in Bangladesh are suffering from hypertension at present and intake of unsafe food is greatly responsible for...

Jun72022 by No Comments

Yunus Warns About the Disaster Path of Present Civilization- “Urges to Build a New Civilization”

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Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus was invited as a keynote speaker at the Trento Festival of Economics on June 4 in Trento, Italy. The conference held over four days focused on Social entrepreneurship for sustainable economic development. Eight Nobel Laureates, more than 75 academic speakers, 20 of the most important international and national economists, 26 representatives of the most important European and national institutions and 11 Italian Ministers participated in this annual event of national interest. The festival is organized by the 24 ORE Group and Trentino Marketing on behalf of the Autonomous Province of Trento, with the contribution of the Municipality and the University of Trento. Organizers and participants agreed that the highlight of the second day's deliberations...

Jun62022 by No Comments

It’s Humanity Foundation (IHF) is celebrating 12 years of changing lives

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On 4 June 2022, It’s Humanity Foundation (IHF) celebrated its 12th year anniversary. To celebrate this milestone, the organization arranged a get-together event with all of their partners, stakeholders, former and current team members and well-wishers on the day at their head office situated in Mohakhali DOHS. All of the 8 schools for children from marginalized communities run by the organization also celebrated with cake cutting ceremonies with all the students and teachers. The organization is grateful to all of its supporters, partners, and well-wishers. These impactful years of reaching new horizons and changing lives would have never been possible without their support and encouragement. The small get-together event was inaugurated by Md. Adnan Hossain, Founder and Chairman of IHF;...

Jun22022 by No Comments

Drug treatment management and mental health care training manual review workshop

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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...