Bangladesh Medical Research Council (BMRC)
A cross-sectional study was conducted in five slums of Dhaka city. The study population was all adult women of reproductive age having an infant aged less than one year with a view to assessing the prevalence of Acute Respiratory Infections (ARIs) among the slum infants and also to identify the factors responsible for it. A total of 1008 mothers were interviewed. Among them, 927 had children aged 0-12 months. Mothers with live infants (927) were asked if their children had any disease during the two weeks prior to the interview…