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Diarrhoea Patient Loaded

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A young women lie down on the bed at the International Center for Diarrhoeal Diseases and Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B) she is badly suffering from diarrhoea. In the Dhaka city this season the rate is alarming. Over 600 new patients show up every day and the ICDDR,B authorities are struggling to accommodate them. Temporary tents have been set up on the hospital premises.

The situation is not likely to get any batter soon until the water supply in Dhaka is improves. The diarrhoea patients might linger during April and May as the temperature rises, said the scientists of ICDDR,B. The expert suggests that everybody should drink boiled water and avoid unhygienic food. March 2009. Dhaka, Bangladesh

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Young Portfolio/Japan,2008

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This year 2008, some of my works published on the The Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts Japan .Its has established three basic principal for collection,exhibition and preserving photographic works. The Young Portfolio represents the Museum’s wish to collect works by young and emerging photographs for its permanent collection.

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Basundhara Fire

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At least seven people died and 50 others were injured and six top floors burnt after a massive fire broke out at the Basundhara Group’s corporate office building above a shopping mall in the capital of Dhaka. The blaze that started around 1.30 pm was brought under control towards evening after firemen spent over 5 hours fighting the leaping flames that spread downwards from the top floors of the 21-storied building. When it was first opened to the public in August 2004 the owners of Basundhara City claimed it to be the largest shopping mall in South Asia and the 12th largest in the world. 13 March, 2009 Dhaka, Bangladesh
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Published my HIV/AIDS stories on Observers France 24. com

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A “deadly game” on the streets of Dhaka

As antiretroviral treatments continue to make progress, the AIDS scare is finally calming down in the West. On the other side of the world however, the virus continues to kill. In Bangladesh, it’s drug users who are falling prey to this devastating disease. Our Observer in Dhaka sent us these arresting images.
Ever since the first case of HIV was reported back in 1989, AIDS has been a quietly growing but deadly problem in Bangladesh – and in particular in Dhaka. Although the country as a whole is deemed by the UN to be “low-risk”, the disease is spreading at a worrying rate among one section of society: intravenous drug addicts who reuse dirty needles in the urban slums of the capital. According to UNAIDS statistics, the number of HIV-positive drug users more than doubled between 2001 and 2005. Health experts warn that the risk of an epidemic is increased by that fact that many of the addicts also admit paying for sex – and only 10 percent say they always use a condom. Our Observer in Bangladesh has been documenting the plight of these people for the past three years. Here is what he found: a “deadly game” on the streets of Dhaka.

When you talk to them you realise they are just waiting for death”
Monirul Alam is a noted photojournalist from Bangladesh. He’s worked with the local daily Prothom Alo, and also foreign publications including Time and Newsweek. He has a blog https://monirul.wordpress.com/

“Most of these people are young, homeless and unemployed. Some of them don’t know anything about the disease they’ve got. Their frustration with life has led them to become drug addicts, and when you talk to them you realise they are just waiting for death because they have nothing else. Drug abuse is a growing national concern in Bangladesh. We have millions of drug-addicted people and most of them are between the ages of 18 and 30. And in Dhaka HIV is widespread too. The government and NGOs are doing very little – at least, not enough to help those who are infected.”

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http://observers.france24.com/en/content/20090206-deadly-game-streets-dhaka-bangladesh-heroin-drug-abuse-hiv-aids

Migrant Labour

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January 2009 Dhaka Bangladesh. A migrant’s people sleep on the street at Karwan Bazar at midnight. The migrants were lured by visions of money, food and a better life, but many of them failed to realize their dreams, and the rural poor became the urban poor.

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Upazila Election

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A young man casts his vote at a polling center in Karanigonj.Bangladeshi citizens exercise their constitutional rights by casting votes in the Upazilla Parishad Election 2009 after around 19 long years. 7, 32, 58,950 voters are expected to participate in this year’s poll. A total of 8,000 candidates are contesting for the 479 chairmen posts and the same number of vice-chairmen and women vice-chairmen posts in the Parishads. Simultaneously beginning in all parts of the country the election is to continue from 8 am to 4 pm. Kharaniganj,Dhaka, Bangladesh.22 January,2009
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A Deadly Game

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HIV has become widespread in Dhaka city. Especially in mobile drug user which is using injecting twice time.According to health ministry as of last year,123 people died of AIDS,365 others got infected and 1207 found HIV positive.The first HIV positive patient in the country was identified in 1989. June 2008 Dhaka Bangladesh
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NO MORE GENOCIDE

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A Bangladeshi children holding a candle light and Palestinian people’s photo in front of the central Shahed Minar to protesting the brutal killings in Gaza. A Cultural organization name Sommilito Sangskritik Jot organized this protest progammed. Dhaka, Bangladesh. January 18 2009
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Daily life in Dhaka

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Thirty-two years old Khokon Miya shows a book named “Dreams from my Father Barack Obama” in his right hand. Khokon sales book (reproduction) on the busy street in the capital of Dhaka every day for survive his family, as a little of Tk.100/150. He lost his left hand a few years ago in the train accident.Recently Bangladesh was held a nine National Parliamentary election  peacefully and Awami League-led grand alliance own this period. Dhaka Bangladesh, 12 January 2009

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Chobi Mela V

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Asia’s largest and the World’s most prominent Photography Festival, Chobi Mela V is officially announced by Shahidul Alam, director of the International Festival of Photography ‘Chobi Mela V’ in a press conference at Drik Galllary, Dhanmondi today. Chobi Mela V is starting from 30th January 2009 and will continue throughout the whole month of February in various prominent galleries of Dhaka. Including Bangladesh Chobi Mela V will be featuring works of renowned artists from all over the world. Innumerable maestros of photography and photo enthusiasts will be joining the different workshops and other photography based programmes which will be held during the course of the festival. Dhaka, Bangladesh. January 10 2009

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Morten Krogvold workshop at Pathshala campus. 27 January 2008

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Chobi Mela exhibition team work at Bangladesh National Museum Gallery. 28 January 2009

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Dave Clark teacher and photographer delivered his lecture at Pathshala. National and International photojournalist attends this one day lecture session.

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Famous Indian writer and human rights activist Mahasweta Devi with Festival Director Shahidul Alam at Drik. She arrived in Dhaka on January 28 to attend Asia’s biggest photography festival, Chobi Mela V. Mahasweta Devi is the Guest of Honor of Opening Ceremony at Bangladesh National Museum. Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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