Dengue cases cross 50,000 in Dhaka division as outbreak strains hospitals
Health-directorate figures show admissions up 38 percent over last week, with the heaviest load in Mugda, Mitford, and the Shaheed Suhrawardy hospitals.
By Rumana Akter·
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Aedes larvae survey warns of a second dengue peak before September
An IEDCR pre-monsoon survey has flagged 14 wards with Breteau indices above the WHO threshold — most clustered around the new metro alignment.
By Rumana Akter·
What the dengue numbers actually tell us — and what they hide
An editorial on the gap between hospital-admissions data and ward-level transmission, and why we still cannot answer the simplest question parents are asking.
By Mahmudul Hasan·
Dhaka's worst air quality month on record drives 22% jump in paediatric respiratory cases
Hospitals in Dhanmondi, Mohammadpur, and Mirpur are reporting sustained increases in nebulisation visits among under-fives, paediatricians say.
By Imran Hossain·
Workshop: Ethical health reporting in the age of viral misinformation (May 2026)
Two-day intensive in Dhaka — applications close 12 May. Open to working journalists from print, broadcast, and online newsrooms.
By Mahmudul Hasan·
How rural Bangladesh quietly cut maternal mortality — and where it is stalling
Three decades of midwifery investment, community clinics, and Bangladeshi exceptionalism are running into a stubborn last-mile problem.
By Nasrin Sultana·
BHRF position paper: the tobacco-control amendment cannot wait another budget cycle
Our committee's full submission to the parliamentary standing committee on health, with seven recommendations on graphic warnings, point-of-sale display, and e-cigarettes.
By Tobibur Rahman·
Behind the door: a four-month special report on mental-health stigma in district hospitals
Across six districts, BHRF documented patients being turned away, prescriptions left unfilled, and psychiatric wards used for non-clinical purposes.
Sixteen reporters graduate BHRF's first data-journalism bootcamp
The four-week intensive, supported by Internews and the Friedrich Naumann Foundation, produced eight publishable investigations across health and the environment.
By Nasrin Sultana·
"Surveillance is a public good" — interview with Dr. Mahbubur Rahman on rebuilding the DGHS data pipeline
The DGHS additional director-general talks to BHRF about the post-COVID surveillance reset, what data the country still does not collect, and why.
By Mahmudul Hasan·
Pre-budget op-ed: a 6.4 percent health outlay is no longer a debate, it is an indictment
Bangladesh's health spend as a share of the national budget has barely moved in a decade. The case for a 10 percent floor has stopped being aspirational.
By Arif Khan·
Warmer, wetter, sicker: how climate is rewriting the vector-borne disease map in coastal Bangladesh
icddr,b modelling suggests that the dengue and chikungunya transmission window in the coastal belt could lengthen by six to nine weeks within a decade.
By Rumana Akter·