| Reporting Organization: | International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr, b) |
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| Total Budget ($CAD): | $ 20,000,000 |
| Timeframe: | March 27, 2012 - June 30, 2017 |
| Status: | Completion |
| Contact Information: | Unspecified |
International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr, b)
| Bangladesh - $ 20,000,000.00 (100.00%) | |
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| Health Promotion & Education (25 %) | |
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| Infectious & Communicable Diseases (20 %) | |
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| Primary Health Care (20 %) | |
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| Reproductive Health & Rights incl. Maternal Health (18 %) | |
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| Health Systems, Training & Infrastructure (10 %) | |
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| Nutrition (5 %) | |
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| Sexual Health & Rights (2 %) | |
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This contribution represents Canada’s long-term institutional support to the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), a non-profit international health research, service, and training institution. icddr,b uses these funds, along with other donors’ funding, to achieve its mandate. icddr,b’s mandate is to provide free, high quality health care for the poor in Bangladesh, including maternal and child health services and treatment for diarrhoeal and other diseases. It also supports research that is designed to generate the data needed to develop policies and practices to address significant health challenges in Bangladesh and other countries. Canada’s support to icddr,b contributes to ensuring that icddr,b is providing effective, evidence-based, gender-responsive health care and health education services for the poor. It also ensures that the icddr,b can continue to conduct important health research that translates into policies that can help to improve the health and reduce poverty levels of Bangladeshis. Canada’s institutional support is also helping to strengthen the management systems and improve the sustainability of the Centre.
| Gender and age: | Unspecified |
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| Total Direct Population: | Unspecified |
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Return to topThe expected intermediate outcomes for this project include: (1) increased use of knowledge generated by the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b) on public health policies and practices, particularly those addressing public health challenges faced by the poor and vulnerable; (2) more effective, evidence-based, gender-responsive health care and health education provided by icddr,b hospitals and allied research-linked treatment facilities to the women, men, girls and boys of Bangladesh; and (3) improved management and sustainability of icddr,b.
Results achieved by icddr,b with the support of the Government of Canada and other international donors as of May 2014 include: (1) treating 389,258 patients (55% under the age of five) at icddr,b’s three hospitals; (2) providing health services to 203,792 people at three sub-centres, 41 fixed site clinics and two community-operated diarrhoea treatment centres in Matlab; (3) averting 108,822 deaths (according to icdrr,b estimates); (4) contributing to a landmark analysis of the global burden of severe acute lower respiratory tract infections in young children, resulting in Bangladesh being chosen as one of two sites to pilot a project to determine the incidence and prevalence of pneumonia, diarrhoea and fever in children under five; (5) publishing a national survey on child marriage in Bangladesh, showing alarmingly high levels of child marriage in Bangladesh (64% of women aged 20 to 24 were married before their 18th birthdays), and conducting further research on the roots of the practice; and (6) developing a package of measures proven to significantly reduce maternal deaths before, during and after childbirth, and working closely with the government to ensure that the Bangladesh national health system adopts this approach.
These have contributed to ensuring that people have access to free, high quality health care in Bangladesh, including maternal, newborn and child health services and treatment for diarrhoeal and other diseases, and to developing policies and practices to address significant health challenges in Bangladesh and other countries.
