Health & Wellness
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Stories about Health & Wellness
A New WASH Partnership Targets Tea Gardens. For Women Workers, Toilets Are Health Infrastructure
City Bank and Oxfam have launched a climate-resilient water, sanitation and hygiene initiative for underserved tea-garden communities, with a specific focus on women and girls. The partnership is welcome; the real test will be safe water, usable toilets and menstrual dignity where women actually live and work
Bedey Women Keep Families Earning. Healthcare Still Struggles to Reach Them
Women in Bangladesh’s historically marginalised Bedey communities often carry both earning and caregiving responsibilities while facing early marriage, repeated pregnancy, poor sanitation and weak access to formal healthcare. Mobile communities need healthcare designed around how they actually live.
BUET Gets a Sanitary-Pad Vending Machine. Menstrual Access Should Be Standard Campus Infrastructure
Female students and staff at BUET’s Materials and Metallurgical Engineering department can now buy sanitary pads through a mobile-payment vending machine. One machine will not solve period poverty—but it shows how universities can make menstruation an ordinary infrastructure issue rather than an emergency women manage privately.
If a Woman Needs to Escape Abuse Tonight, Where Can She Go in Bangladesh?
Bangladesh has laws, helplines, crisis centres and shelters for women escaping violence. But rights advocates say the number of safe places remains far too small—and navigating the system can be difficult precisely when a woman needs help most.
A 22-Year-Old Student Died of Dengue at Nine Months Pregnant. Bangladesh’s Surge Is Now a Maternal-Health Warning Too
Nur Jahan, a Cumilla college student who was nine months pregnant, died of dengue in Dhaka on Wednesday; her unborn child also died. Her death comes as Bangladesh records its highest daily dengue hospitalisations of 2026.
Bangladesh Is Taking Midwifery to the UN. The Promise Now Is 25,000 Professionals Where Women Actually Give Birth
Bangladesh and Sweden will co-host a UN General Assembly event on 24 September focused on integrating midwives into primary healthcare. Bangladesh has committed to train and deploy 25,000 midwives by 2030. The global leadership will matter most if the workforce reaches women outside major hospitals.
110 Women Factory Workers Joined Mental-Health Sessions. Awareness Should Be the First Layer, Not the Whole Safety Net
Psychologists recently held workplace mental-health sessions for 110 women workers in Pabna and Gazipur. Normalising conversations about stress is valuable, but women working under production pressure also need confidential counselling, referral systems and workplaces that reduce—not simply teach them to cope with—psychological strain.
Tarash Is Talking Openly About Periods. Bangladesh Still Needs Affordable Products and Private Facilities
Women and adolescent girls in a Sirajganj community joined an open discussion on menstruation this week and received sanitary pads. Awareness helps dismantle stigma—but Bangladesh’s menstrual-health challenge is also about affordability, school facilities, privacy and reliable access to products.
Aerobic Exercise Improved Some Thinking Skills After Menopause
A six-month randomised trial found gains in executive function among postmenopausal women assigned to aerobic exercise. The small study did not improve memory or prove that exercise prevents dementia.
Four More Children Die as Bangladesh’s Measles Crisis Pushes Combined Toll to 983
Four more children have died with measles-like symptoms in Bangladesh, taking the combined number of confirmed and suspected measles-related deaths to 983. Of those deaths, 99 are laboratory-confirmed and 884 remain classified as suspected, according to DGHS data.
More Men Are Getting Dengue, but Women Are Dying at a Higher Rate
Women account for only 38.1% of Bangladesh’s reported dengue cases this year but 58.6% of deaths, according to DGHS data—a gender gap doctors say needs urgent attention even though its exact causes are not yet established.
Samia Afreen’s Second Cancer Diagnosis Highlights the Reality of Cancer Recurrence
Bangladeshi television presenter Samia Afreen has revealed that she has been diagnosed with a malignant tumour for a second time, bringing renewed attention to the emotional and medical realities faced by people living beyond an initial cancer diagnosis.