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    Enrolling girls without learning: Evidence from public schools in Afghanistan
    (Wiley Online Library, 2017-11-22) Asadullah, M. Niaz; Alim, Md. Abdul; Hossain, M. Anowar
    While more girls are now attending school in Afghanistan than prior to 2010, there is a lack of evidence on how school attendance is helping their cognitive development. We use data from a large sample of all-girls state-funded school students to estimate for the first time the “learning profile” for Afghanistan. Students enrolled in grades 4 to 9 were assessed using the Early Grade Reading Assessment (EGRA) and the Early Grade Mathematics Assessment (EGMA) test items. We find that higher grade progression (particularly in grades 6–9) leads to almost no gain in numeracy (addition and subtraction) skills that should have been achieved in early grades. Similar results follow from the analysis of student performance in the EGRA test, particularly in oral reading fluency (correct words read per minute) and oral reading comprehension (number of correct answers out of 12). These findings warn that simply enrolling girls in school without improving the relationship between grade completion and learning is unlikely to transform the lives of women in Afghanistan.
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    Hafnia alvei, a probable cause of diarrhea in humans
    (1991) Albert, M. John; Alam, Khorshed; Islam, Moyenul; Montanaro, Jacqueline; Rahaman, A.S.M. Hamidur; Haider, Khaleda; Hossain, M. Anowar; Kibriya, A.K.M.G.; Tzipori, Saul
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    Increasing frequency of mecillinam-resistant shigella isolates in urban Dhaka and rural Matlab, Bangladesh: a 6 year observation
    (1998-06) Hossain, M. Anowar; Rahman, M.; Ahmed, Q.S.; Malek, M.A.; Sack, R. B.; Albert, M. John
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    Nutrition promotion and collective vegetable gardening by adolescent girls: Feasibility assessment from a pilot in Afghanistan
    (AESS, 2018-10-04) Alim, Md. Abdul; Hossain, M. Anowar
    This study aimed to assess the feasibility of collective vegetable gardening into an existing development programme for adolescent girls as a means of improving awareness about health and nutrition and increasing vegetable consumption in Afghanistan. A one and half year pilot study tested the feasibility of layering an intervention that combined agricultural training and input support in Kabul, Parwan and Kapisa regions on an adolescent programme implemented by a non-government organisation. The study included 400 adolescent girls for survey and qualitative tools to understand the local context of adolescent girls' participation in vegetable cultivation. The assessment demonstrates the evidence that despite of the challenging situation and traditional culture in Afghanistan the pilot had successfully engaged almost all of the adolescent girls in collective vegetables cultivation by making them aware about health, nutrition and the usefulness of vegetables consumption while the bad effects of not intake those. And the cultivation proved itself financially viable and very much effective for the community though there were little challenges. The pilot would be feasible and scalable to address the malnutrition and girls' marginalization if those challenges were taken into consideration carefully.
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    Pivmecillinam-resistant shigella dysenteriae type 1 infection in Bangladesh[letter]
    (1990) Mitra, Amal K.; Kabir, Iqbal; Hossain, M. Anowar
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    Serologic evidence of dengue infection before onset of epidemic, Bangladesh
    (2003) Hossain, M. Anowar; Khatun, Mahmuda; Arjumand, Farzana; Nisaluk, Ananda; Breiman, Robert F.