◊ Introduction

               Ad-din, a non-profit private voluntary organization operates  in Bangladesh since 1985. Ad-din aims to improve the health, educational, social and financial status of underprivileged people, particularly of women and children, in the areas in which it work.Ad-din implements affordable cost but high quality hospital and community based health services including nutritional rehabilitation, HIV/AIDS and STI prevention, and eye care services; rural women’s development and credit; orphan rehabilitation; water and sanitation; education; institution-based income generation; emergency rehabilitation; training; research and publications. Ad-din’s working areas include Khulna and Barisal division and Dhaka city.       

 

◊  Evolution of Ad-din’s projects and services

        In 1985 Ad-din Hospital Jessore started operating as only an out patient center with two doctors. In 1990 the community based maternal and child health project, and women’s development and micro-credit program were introduced. The inpatient unit was added to the Ad-din Hospital Jessore in 1991. In 1995 a nurses training center opened adjacent to the Ad-din Hospital Jessore. In 1997 Ad-din Hospital Dhaka became operational. In 1999 Ad-din Hospital Kushtia was initiated. In 2001 Ad-din started implementing STI prevention project; in 2003 Mobile Eye Care project and in 2004 Community Based Rehabilitation program for irreversibly blind people. In 2004 new outpatient building was inaugurated in Ad-din Hospital Dhaka. In 2004, 73 beds and 4 operating theatres and a new outpatient unit were added to Ad-din Hospital Kushtia. From 2004, Ad-din, as a member of the HASAB Consortium started implementing the GFATM supported HIV/ AIDS Prevention programme for youth.
Water Aid Bangladesh (WAB) assisted Ad-din in initiating a Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene project at Magura Municipality from April 2007.