Category : News of Major Event

National Vitamin ‘A’ Plus Campaign Begins

The National Vitamin ‘A’ plus Campaign, is being observed across the country Saturday, June 05, 2021 aiming to feed vitamin A plus capsules to all children aged between six and 59 months, reports UNB. Under the campaign, about 2.53 million children aged between six and 11 months will be fed blue colored vitamin ‘A’ capsules while A health ... [Read more...]

12 Success Stories of Ujjiban

The USAID-funded Ujjiban project is a five-year integrated effort designed to improve the health of Bangladeshis and their communities by increasing knowledge and generating awareness of positive health behaviors related to maternal, neonatal, child and adolescent health, family planning, nutrition and tuberculosis. Ujjiban employs a mix of media, outreach, community mobilization, ... [Read more...]

National Nutrition Week Begins

Health and family welfare minister Zahid Malik on Thursday at a virtual meeting inaugurated the National Nutrition Week 2021. The minister at the meeting said that the present government was working relentlessly to address the challenge of malnutrition amid the coronavirus outbreak. This year the government is observing the National Nutrition Week between April 23 and April 29 under ... [Read more...]

Guidelines for functionalize the Committees for Implementing effective SBCC activities in HPN Sector

Considering the Comprehensive Social and Behavior Change Communication (SBCC) Strategy '2016, designed to implement effective SBCC activities in the health, population and nutrition (HPN) sectors 7 committees were formed from the national level to the field level as per reference no. 45.00.0000.161.137.14.17-310 dated 12-08-2018 of Public Health-2, Health Services Division of MoHFW. ... [Read more...]

World Health Day, 2021: 'Building a Fairer, Healthier World'

Bangladesh observed World Health Day every year with due attention and care. The theme of the World Health Day, 2021 is Building a fairer, healthier world ”  সকলের  জন্য সুন্দর ও স্বাস্থ্যকর বিশ্ব গড়ি. This year World Health Day -2021 Bangladesh observed in befitting manner due to Corona Virus ... [Read more...]

HPN SBCC Best Practice Share Fair event held

HPN SBCC Best Practice Share Fair event held on 08 March 2021 at 12:30 P.M. through virtual platform. The Honorable Minister for Health & Family Welfare Mr. Zahid Maleque, MP was attend  the occasion as Chief Guest, while Secretaries of both the divisions of MoHFW and USAID representative were present  as the special guest. 15 GoB and NGOs  presented their Best ... [Read more...]