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The availability of voluntary nonremunerated blood donors (VNRBD) is a major concern in low- and middle-income countries including Bangladesh. There is a substantial paucity of safe blood supply against the expected demand. This study aims to explore the status of knowledge, attitude, and practice regarding blood donation of students and teachers of residential religious academic (RRA) institutions at the community level in Bangladesh. Religious institutions were selected through simple random sampling and the cross-sectional survey was conducted among 512 participants at Jamalpur district in Bangladesh. Descriptive statistics and stepwise binary logistic regression were performed with statistical significance defined as p < 0.05. Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) was used with Principal Component Analysis (PCA) as an extraction method to evaluate a linear KAP relationship regarding blood donation. The results showed that over 90% of the participants were students, non-smokers, and aged 18 to 30 year. The majority (92%) did not ever donate blood to anyone, yet over 42% wanted to be regular donors. More than 80% considered blood donation as a moral responsibility and an Islamic act. The common reasons for not donating blood were lack of knowledge (40%), lack of opportunity (20%), thinking it was harmful to health (21%), being scared of needles (16%), and no financial benefit (5.5%). Interestingly, more than 67% did not know their blood group and about 61 % of the respondents said they did not hear or could not remember about any blood donation program. The participants had poor knowledge of general eligibility criteria but an overall positive attitude towards blood donation. In PCA, two principal components with eigenvalues greater than 1 were retained explaining 77.42% of the total variance. The first component was influenced by knowledge and practice compared to the second component which was largely influenced by attitude. Teachers were more likely to donate blood (AOR: 1.94, 95% CI: 1.03-3.81) and possess good practice behaviour (AOR: 4.79, 95% CI: 2.23-11.92). This research highlights that a large portion of the potential healthy donors is being overlooked although they could be a valuable resource to alleviate the ongoing blood donation crisis. Funding Information: None to declare. Declaration of Interests: None to declare. Ethics Approval Statement: The study protocol was reviewed and approved by the institutional review board of Biomedical Research Foundation, Bangladesh (Ref. no: BRF/ERB/2018/004). Informed written consent was obtained from all the participants, and confidentiality was maintained during and after the data collection.

Background: Considering the lack of definitive drug or vaccine, the non-pharmaceutical interventions need to be implemented to control the current coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, notably in countries with limited resources like Bangladesh. So, the study targeted the university students of Bangladesh as the representatives of the millennials to determine their level of awareness regarding COVID-19. Methods: A cross-sectional study was designed to determine the knowledge, attitude and practices with a co-produced perception section regarding COVID-19 among university students in Bangladesh. The survey was conducted from 16 to 23rd March, 2020. Descriptive and inferential analyses were performed with statistical significance defined as p < 0.05. Result: Among 1393 students participated in the study, about one-third of them had a positive attitude towards COVID-19 issues, although only 6.9% had good knowledge. While the majority of the participants followed sneezing/ coughing etiquette, frequent hand washing/sanitizing, limited body contact and public transport, etc., both good knowledge and positive attitude were significantly associated with respondents’ good practices. But despite the satisfactory hand hygiene behaviors, awareness is required about the type of sanitizers and the importance of washing hands for 20seconds. Promoting health educative activities through Facebook might be considered to improve the knowledge level, especially to raise awareness about rare symptoms and asymptomatic transmission. However, bazaars might be the potential point of the outbreak that needs to be controlled. Conclusion: The study supports the concerning lack of knowledge among the students along with suggesting the issues to be addressed for successful containment of COVID-19.

Objective: Antibiotic abuse has contributed to the development of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and has become a global concern. With a poorly regulated health system and a general lack of data, Bangladesh remains under high risk of AMR spread. To minimize the existing gap in the literature, this study was conducted to assess the knowledge, attitude, and behavior regarding antibiotic use and misuse among university students. Methods: A cross-sectional study design was used to survey 1400 students using a self-administered questionnaire from the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. Descriptive and inferential analyses were performed with statistical significance defined as p < 0.05. Results: More than half of the respondents had poor knowledge and neutral attitude towards antibiotics. The students from bioscience were found to have better knowledge and attitude than arts and business. Respondents with good knowledge were more likely to show a positive attitude, p