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Rafiuzzaman Sifat

Md. Rafiuzzaman Sifat, a CSE graduate turned into journalist, works at News Hour as a staff reporter. He has many years of experience in featured writing in different Bangladeshi newspapers. He is an active blogger, story writer and social network activist. He published a book named 'Se Amar Gopon' inEkushe boi mela Dhaka 2016. Sifat got a BSc. from Ahsanullah University of Science & Technology, Bangladesh. He also works as an Engineer at Bangla Trac Communications Ltd. As an avid traveler and a gourmet food aficionado, he is active in publishing restaurant reviews and cutting-edge articles about culinary culture.

Millennium Development Goals were achieved in the Americas

by Rafiuzzaman Sifat - Oct 1, 2016

News Hour: The countries of the Americas met almost all the health targets of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), according to a report presented to the region’s health ministers during the 55th Directing Council of the...
PAHO calls for strengthening road safety legislation

by Rafiuzzaman Sifat - Oct 1, 2016

News Hour: Deaths from road traffic injuries, mainly among motorcyclists, increased by 3% in the Americas between 2010 and 2013, according to the new Report on Road Safety in the Region of the Americas, published by...
Health ministers adopt new plan for malaria elimination in the Americas

by Rafiuzzaman Sifat - Oct 1, 2016

News Hour: Noting that malaria “remains a serious threat” in the Americas that has resurged where efforts against the disease have weakened, health ministers from across the Region today adopted a new plan for malaria elimination...
Region of the Americas is declared free of measles

by Rafiuzzaman Sifat - Oct 1, 2016

News Hour: The Region of the Americas is the first in the world to have eliminated measles, a viral disease that can cause severe health problems, including pneumonia, brain swelling and even death. This achievement culminates...
Sanofi appoints Alan Main to executive committee and executive vice president

by Rafiuzzaman Sifat - Oct 1, 2016

News Hour: Sanofi, a global healthcare leader, discovers, develops and distributes therapeutic solutions focused on patients’ needs. Sanofi announced the appointment of Alan Main as Executive Vice President Consumer HealthCare, effective October 1st, 2016. Mr. Main will...
WHO and US EPA sign new Memorandum of Understanding on environmental health cooperation

by Rafiuzzaman Sifat - Sep 30, 2016

News Hour: On 28 September 2016 the Director General of WHO and the Administrator of the US Environment Protection Agency signed a new Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on cooperation on environmental health. Under the MOU, WHO...
Ex-Insys sales manager arrested in U.S. fentanyl-kickback case

by Rafiuzzaman Sifat - Sep 30, 2016

News Hour: A former Insys Therapeutics Inc district sales manager was arrested on Thursday on charges he participated in a scheme to pay kickbacks to doctors to prescribe a drug containing the opioid fentanyl, U.S. prosecutors...
Pastoral communities badly hit by the worst drought in 30 years in Ethiopia

by Rafiuzzaman Sifat - Sep 29, 2016

News Hour: The signs of drought are evident in Ethiopia’s Siti region and it is the pastoralist communities who rely on their livestock that are bearing the brunt of the suffering. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has...
Thousands of South Sudanese refugees living in deplorable conditions

by Rafiuzzaman Sifat - Sep 29, 2016

News Hour: Approximately 4,000 refugees who fled violence in South Sudan in December 2015 are living in deplorable conditions in Bambouti, a remote village of 1,000 inhabitants in the southeastern part of the Central African Republic...
“When they are diagnosed with hepatitis C, patients think they will die” : Pakistan

by Rafiuzzaman Sifat - Sep 29, 2016

News Hour: Pakistan has the second highest prevalence of hepatitis C in the world, up to 5 percent, just after Egypt. People struggle to be diagnosed and get access to treatment because of the high costs...