Background The emergent COVID-19 has impacted unprecedentedly to all classes of
people. Slum-dwellers' knowledge, attitudes and practices (KAP) toward COVID-19 are …

Dhaka and its neighboring areas suffer from severe air pollution, especially during dry
season (November–April). We investigated temporal and directional variations in particulate …

Background: Although mental health is an important part of health and wellbeing, very little
is known about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the mental health of marginalized …

Introduction Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccination has emerged as a
promising approach to counter the harmful impacts of the pandemic. Understanding the …

This article examines women's attitudes towards informal, formal social and formal legal
support-seeking strategies against intimate partner violence (IPV). This study found that the …

Rapid spatial growth and rural-urban migration in Dhaka have influenced the dynamic
evolution of the city's unplanned and old neighbourhoods. Despite development control and …

Dhaka, the capital metropolis of Bangladesh, is burdened with huge population and
unplanned urbanization. It is facing huge challenge to provide city-wide water connection …

This paper scrutinizes the impact of urban microfinance on livelihood strategies of borrower
slum dwellers of Dhaka, Bangladesh (with primary and secondary data). The primary data …

This study explores the livelihood pattern of the 'floating population'in metropolitan Dhaka,
Bangladesh by using the Sustainable Livelihood (SL) framework. Data were collected by …

Purpose This paper aims to assess the progress in the provision of basic services in urban
slums in Bangladesh during the transition period of millennium development goals (MDGs) …