Saifuddin Ahmed

TL;DR: In the Rakai population, a substantial proportion of HIV-1 acquisition appears to occur independently of treatable STD cofactors, and in pregnant women, the follow-up prevalences of trichomoniasis, bacterial vaginosis, gonorrhoea, and chlamydia infection were significantly lower in the intervention group than in the control group.

TL;DR: Evidence is provided that use of contraception is a substantial and effective primary prevention strategy to reduce maternal mortality in developing countries and that Satisfying unmet need for contraception could prevent another 104,000 maternal deaths per year.

TL;DR: Increased education, higher socioeconomic status, non-Muslim religion, and extended family residence are found to be associated with lower risks of violence in two rural areas of Bangladesh.

TL;DR: Efforts to expand maternal health service utilization can be accelerated by parallel investments in programs aimed at poverty eradication, universal primary education, and women's empowerment.

TL;DR: A regression model of log stillbirth rate was developed and used to predict national stillbirth rates from 1995 to 2009, and the estimated number of global stillbirths was 2·64 million in 2009 compared with 3·03 million in 1995.