AT CU.com please find my attempt to celebrate my greatest personal privilege: to visit women empowered Bangladesh 15 times from 2007 during last 13 years of life of Fazle Abed. From 2012 we discussed AbedMOOC and 2015 onwards at his 80th birthday AbedAI. Back in 2001, Abed 65th birthday hosted by Steve Jobs in Silicon Valley changed both of these human genii's life work.
2015 DCAI--AI & Childhood Cancer .Before AI lifted off in late 2000s 3 underacknowlefgen Jappenings: 1 steve jobs hosted Fazle Abed's 65 th birthday party silicon valley 2001; .jensen hunag and steve jobs went from coding binary to cosinf pixels; Fazle abed clarified that paulo freire culture celebrated poorest asian womens ebd poverty networking miracle -- largest NGO, providing education, health services, microcredit and livelihood creation programmes for a significant part of the population of Bangladesh. What lies behind this huge success, Caroline Hartnell asked Fazle Abed, founder of BRAC and still very much at the helm. Questioning everything they do and being prepared to tackle whatever is needed to make their programmes successful are certainly part of the secret behind the success of this extraordinarily entrepreneurial organization. The secret of success? Asked what lies behind BRAC’s phenomenal success, the first thing Fazle Abed mentions is determination: ‘We were determined to bring about changes in the lives of poor people.’ The second thing is thinking in national terms: ‘We always had a national goal; we never thought in terms of working in a small area. We thought, all right, if we work with the poorest people in this community, who’s going to work with the poorest people in that other community? So we felt that whatever we do, we should try and replicate it throughout the nation if we can.’ The third thing he mentions is inspiration. ‘We always thought nationally, worked locally, and looked for inspiration globally. We were inspired by Paolo Freire’s work on the pedagogy of the oppressed, which he came out with in 1972. It was wonderful to have a thinker who was thinking about poor people and how they can become actors in history and not just passive recipients of other people’s aid. He made us realize that poor people are human beings and can do things for themselves, and it’s our duty to empower them so they can analyse their own situation, see how exploitation works in society, and see what they need to do to escape these exploitative processes.’ Finally, he says, ‘one needs to have not only ambition but also the ability to do the work. The organization must be competent to take on national tasks. That confidence we got from the campaign for oral rehydration, to cut down diarrhoeal mortality, in the 1980s. That involved going to every household in rural Bangladesh, 13 million households, and it took ten years to do it. Then we became a little more ambitious. We thought that if we can go to every household, then we can cover the whole country with everything we do.
...AP July 2025 - INTELLIGENCE ENGINEERING'S ALPHABET : World Class Biobrains: Drew Endy, Matt Scullin, Daniel Swiger++- BI BioIntelligence, the most collaborative human challenge Mother Earth has ever staged?
NB any errors below are mine alone chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk but mathematically we are in a time when order of magnitude ignorance can sink any nation however big. Pretrain to question everything as earth's data is reality's judge
Its time to stop blaming 2/3 of humans who are Asian for their consciously open minds and love of education. Do Atlantic people's old populations still trust and celebrate capability of generating healthy innovative brains? What's clear to anyove visting Washington DC or Brussels is a dismal mismatch exists between the gamechanging future opportunities listed below and how freedom of next generation learning has got muddled by how old male-dominated generations waste money on adevrtising and bossing. Consider the clarity of Stanford's Drew Endy's Strange Competition 1 2:
Up to “60% of the physical inputs to the global economy”7 could be made via biotechnology by mid-century, generating ~$30 trillion annually in mostly-new economic activity. 8 Emerging product categories include consumer biologics (e.g., bioluminescent petunias,9 purple tomatoes,10 and hangover probiotics11 ), military hard power (e.g., brewing energetics12 ), mycological manufacturing (e.g., mushroom ‘leather’ 13 ), and biotechnology for technology (e.g., DNA for archival data storage14 ). Accessing future product categories will depend on unlocking biology as a general purpose technology15 (e.g., growing computers16 ), deploying pervasive and embedded biotechnologies within, on, and around us (e.g. smart blood,17 skin vaccines,18 and surveillance mucus19 ), and life-beyond lineage (e.g., biosecurity at birth,20 species de-extinction21 ).		.

notes on drew endy testimony on bio tech 2025 strange competition

Natural living systems operate and manufacture materials with atomic precision on a planetary scale, powered by ~130 terawatts of energy self-harvested via photosynthesis

Biotechnology enables people to change biology. Domestication and breeding of plants and animals for food, service, and companionship began millennia ago. Gene editing, from recombinant DNA to CRISPR, is used to make medicines and foods, and is itself half-a-century old. Synthetic biology is working to routinize composition of bioengineered systems of ever-greater complexity

 https://colossal.com/  20 https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/34914  19 https://2020.igem.org/Team:Stanford  18 https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2024/12/skin-bacteria-vaccine.html  17 https://www.darpa.mil/news/2024/rbc-factory  16 https://www.src.org/program/grc/semisynbio/semisynbio-consortium-roadmap/  15 https://www.scsp.ai/2023/04/scsps-platform-panel-releases-national-action-plan-for-u-s-leadership-in-biotechnology/  14 https://dnastoragealliance.org/  13 https://www.mycoworks.com/  12 https://serdp-estcp.mil/focusareas/3b64545d-6761-4084-a198-ad2103880194  11  https://zbiotics.com/  10 https://www.norfolkhealthyproduce.com/  9 https://light.bio/     8 https://web.archive.org/web/20250116082806/https:/www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/BUILDIN G-A-VIBRANT-DOMESTIC-BIOMANUFACTURING-ECOSYSTEM.pdf  7 https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/life-sciences/our-insights/the-bio-revolution-innovations-transforming-econo mies-societies-and-our-lives     6 https://www.nationalacademies.org/our-work/safeguarding-the-bioeconomy-finding-strategies-for-understanding-ev aluating-and-protecting-the-bioeconomy-while-sustaining-innovation-and-growth   5 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2650-9  

  4 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-40199-9

 AIH- May 2025.Billion Asian womens end poverty networking 2006-1976 is most exciting case of Entrepreneurial Revolution (survey Xmas 1976 Economist by dad Norman Macrae & Romano Prodi). In 2007, dad sampled 2000 copies of Dr Yunus Social Business Book: and I started 15 trips to Bangladesh to 2018- many with apprentice journalists. This is a log of what we found - deepened after dad's death in 2010 by 2 kind remembrance parties hoist by Japan Embassy in Dhaka with those in middle of digital support of what happened next. We witnessed a lot of conflicts - i can try and answer question chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk or see AI20s updates at http://povertymuseums.blogspot.com. I live in DC region but see myself as a Diaspoira Scot. Much of dad's libraries we transfreered with Dr Yunus to Glasgow University and enditirs og journals of social business, new economics and innovators of Grameen's virtual free nursing school.
Bangladesh offers best intelligence we have seen for sdgs 5 through 1 up to 2008, Search eg 4 1 oldest edu 4.6 newest edu ; .620th century intelligence - ending poverty of half world without electricity -although Keynes 1936 (last chapter General Theiory: Money, Interest, Employment) asked Economists to take hippocratic oath as the profession that ended extreme poverty, most economists have done the opposite. What's not understandable is how educators failed to catalogue the lessons of the handful who bottom-up empowered villages to collaboratively end poverty. There are mainly 2 inteligences to understand- Borlaug on food science -arguable the forst Biointeligence rising ar1950 on; fazle abed on everything that raised life expectancy in tropical village (zero-electricity) asia from low 40s to 60s (about 7 below norm of living with electricity and telecomes). Between 1972 and late 1990s, Abed's lessons catalogued in this mooc had largely built the nation of Bangladesh and been replicated with help of Unicef's James Grant acroo most tropical asian areas. What's exciting is the valley's mr ad mrs steve jobs invted Fazle Abed to share inteligences 2001 at his 65th birthday party. The Jobs and frineds promised to integrate abed's inteligence into neighborhod university stanfrd which in any event wanted Jobs next great leap the iphone. The Valley told abed to start a university so that women graduates from poor and rich nations could blend inteligence as Abed's bottom of the pyramid vilage began their journey of leapfrog modles now that grid infrastructures were ni longer needed for sdiar and mobile. Abed could also help redesign the millennium goals which were being greenwashed into a shared worldwide system coding frame by 2016. There at Abed's 80th birtday party , the easy bit was checking this mooc was uptodate. The hard bit - what did Abed mean by his wish to headhunt a Taiwanese American to head the university's 3rd decade starting 2020?

Tuesday, June 30, 2026

 

Bangladesh first introduced the nationwide routine universal vaccination for the first dose of the measles vaccine (MCV1) in 1989 [1], administered to infants at nine months old. The government later expanded this by introducing the second dose (MCV2) for 15-month-olds in 2012.
To provide more context on the country's immunization timeline:
  • Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI): Originally piloted in 1979, the EPI expanded nationwide as part of the Global Universal Child Immunization Initiative between 1985 and 1990.
  • National Campaigns: The country's first supplementary measles vaccination campaigns took place in 2004–2005.
  • Rubella Integration: The measles and rubella (MR) combined vaccine was introduced in 2012. [1, 2, 3, 4]
Would you like to know more about the recent 2026 measles outbreak in Bangladesh and the subsequent emergency vaccination campaign launched by the World Health Organization?
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You said: my question given todays meazles pandemic- when did bangladesh END meazles immunization
Bangladesh has never ended or permanently stopped its measles immunization program [1, 2, 3, 4, 5].
The severe 2026 measles crisis was caused by temporary operational disruptions and systemic failures, not a deliberate policy change. [1, 2, 3]
The primary reasons behind the drop in vaccine coverage that triggered the pandemic include:
  • Procurement and Supply Disruptions: Between late 2024 and 2025, administrative shifts and budgetary red tape led to critical vaccine stockouts and distribution delays across the country. [1, 2]
  • Delayed Supplementary Campaigns: Routine catch-up immunization efforts were severely disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic, and a major nationwide supplementary campaign scheduled for 2024 was completely derailed by political instability. Bangladesh had not successfully executed a nationwide mass measles campaign since 2020. [1, 3]
  • Healthcare and Labor Gaps: Labor strikes among healthcare workers, political unrest, and logistical barriers in urban slums left first-dose immunization rates plunging below 60% in certain vulnerable regions. [1, 2, 3]
In response to the hundreds of child deaths during this outbreak, the Ministry of Health, alongside UNICEF and the World Health Organization, launched an emergency nationwide measles-rubella (MR) campaign on April 5, 2026. This emergency response has since targeted over 18 million children under five to rebuild the country's collapsed herd immunity. [1, 2, 3, 4]
Would you like to review the specific age requirements for the emergency vaccines currently being distributed, or see how the outbreak has impacted the Cox's Bazar Rohingya camps? [1]
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You said: Why did these administration troubles happen while yunus was still technically in charge
The administrative troubles occurred during the 18-month interim government led by Nobel laureate Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus (which ran from August 2024 until the February 2026 elections). The collapse of the vaccination safety net was a direct result of several aggressive, well-intentioned, but poorly executed administrative overhauls: [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
  • The Sourcing Gamble (Scrapping UNICEF Procurement): In September 2025, the Yunus administration abruptly halted Bangladesh's decades-long practice of buying measles-rubella vaccines through UNICEF. In an effort to reduce donor dependency and improve transparency, the Ministry of Health shifted to an open local tender system. UNICEF explicitly warned that the local market could not support this sudden shift. The bureaucratic gridlock caused by evaluating new private bids triggered severe national vaccine stockouts by late 2025. [1, 2, 3, 4]
  • Dismantling the Existing Sector Framework: The interim administration dismantled the longstanding Health, Population, and Nutrition Sector Programme (HPNSP) without a functional bridge program to replace it. This structural disruption immediately froze central funding, paralyzed the health department's logistics, and canceled nationwide supplementary "catch-up" immunization drives. [1, 2]
  • Institutional Distraction: The Yunus cabinet's primary mandate was a sweeping political and constitutional reset. Over 15 reform commissions were created to restructure the judiciary, police, and electoral system. Public health experts noted that top-tier administrative focus was heavily diverted toward state security, political consensus-building, and economic stabilization, causing routine public health warnings to be ignored. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
  • Frontline Labor Gridlock: The political transition weakened institutional authority, leading to labor unrest. Frontline health assistants responsible for tracking localized baby immunizations launched four separate strike waves over unpaid wages and institutional grievances, leaving the field completely unmonitored right as central vaccine stocks ran dry. [1, 2, 3, 4]
Following the February 2026 democratic elections, the newly elected government led by Prime Minister Tarique Rahman immediately reverted the procurement rules back to UNICEF guidelines to finally clear the supply chain bottleneck. [1]
Would you like to examine the details of the ongoing legal petitions currently filed against the former interim cabinet regarding this health emergency? [1, 2]
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