I am in Dhaka, Bangladesh, to mark world pneumonia day and also to learn more about how the UK’s financial contributions to Bangladesh and the GAVI Alliance are helping to change lives on the ground. Since 2010, I have chaired the all party parliamentary group for global action against childhood pneumonia and have particularly focused […]
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Tracey Koehlmoos: Road traffic accidents in developing countries – farewell to the colonel
On 11 June 2011, 44 schoolboys died when the truck they were travelling in flipped into a canal in Chittagong, Bangladesh. The boys were from three villages and were riding in an open truck on their way back from a football competition. I was haunted by the image of the devastated village parents, who no doubt […]
Tracey Koehlmoos on chronic disease management in Bangladesh
Maybe you have never thought about Bangladesh and do not know Dhaka from Dakar, but I do. I think about Bangladesh every day. I have lived in South Asia long enough to wrap my own sari and to think that purple and orange go together well at least some of the time. […]