General Information

Health including population planning, nutrition and sanitation has been emerged as a special thematic sector in PRSP of Bangladesh, which addresses 5 MDG goals (1,4,5,6 and 7). The issues have been translated into Health Nutrition Population Sector Program (HNPSP) for action in reaching the MDG targets. It is well recognized that health is an issue of socio-economical as well as biomedical, where education, social rights, livelihood options play supplementary and complementary role in the fight against poverty. The health and poverty situation in Bangladesh is typical of the other poor nations. Unfortunately, still the gaps remain in health service delivery mechanism in accessing services by all - service delivery points are not available equally everywhere, particularly in under served and un-served areas.

Interventions of DAM in the health sector are very wide and intensive in certain areas of concern. Generally it works on general awareness on primary health care issues, importance of inoculation, maternity and reproductive health, food & nutrition, environment, etc. DAM has extensive program on water and sanitation and prevention of drug abuse and drug addiction treatment. HIV/AIDS is another area of DAM’s recent interventions. To fight cancer DAM is working in a high profile in awareness creation on and early detection and treatment of cancer. Some of the notable activities in the health sector during the reporting period are narrated below.