Sustainability of a nutrition education programme to prevent night-blindness in Bangladesh

Responses to: "An evaluation of the impact of a US$60 million nutrition programme in Bangladesh".

The article by Hossain et al. (2005) in the January issue of Health Policy and Planning uses a flawed data set to provide a biased and unfortunate portrayal of the Bangladesh Integrated Nutrition Project (BINP), a genuinely innovative public health programme reaching huge numbers of poor women and children in that country. First, while the field methods utilized are only partially divulged (eve...

Environmental Education and Environmental Management in Bangladesh and their Sustainability

Environmental education is in its early development in Bangladesh. Some traditions of environmental wisdom are quite ancient, but most of these are not recognised by the scientific community. The high level of illiteracy and school dropout create barriers to mass environmental education. Some universities offer courses in environment studies, but these are limited and the universities are under...

from linguistics to literature: a linguistic approach to the study of linguistic deviations in the turkish divan of shahriar

chapter i provides an overview of structural linguistics and touches upon the saussurean dichotomies with the final goal of exploring their relevance to the stylistic studies of literature. to provide evidence for the singificance of the study, chapter ii deals with the controversial issue of linguistics and literature, and presents opposing views which, at the same time, have been central to t...

A Case of Night-Blindness Due to Ascaris Lumbricoides Infection

The Treatment of Night Blindness

The eye is cocainised as for cataract operationWith the usual aseptic precautions i c.c. of sterile 10 per cent, salt solution is injected subconjunctival^ ?n each side. Puncture of the conjunctival vessels js avoided. The eyes are bandaged. The bandage! lS removed at night, when to the satisfaction of both the doctor and the patient night blindness will be found to have disappeared. There is p...