Reproductive Health & Behavior Change Communications
For all the many efforts and achievements of Bangladesh’s health institutions and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) over the years, the country continues to grapple with factors that make quality health services and awareness inaccessible to the masses. Such factors include, but are not limited to: poverty, infrastructural deficiencies, dysfunctional public healthcare system, illiteracy, and social stigma surrounding certain reproductive health topics. In working around these obstacles, health authorities have implemented various communications strategies in hopes of providing quality health information to society and high-risk groups and the rural poor, more specifically. This paper aims to review the extent of communications approaches to health education and reproductive health education, in particular. Conventional strategies using street theater, flip charts, and slide shows will be examined, as well as more high-tech methods utilizing modern technologies such as mobile phones, television and radio. Another objective seeks to identify Bangladesh’s high risk groups in relation to HIV/AIDS and sexually transmitted infections and assess what types of communications approaches are best-suited for them.
Reference:
Kozara, K. M. (2008). Reproductive Health & Behavior Change Communications: Situational Analysis/Existing Interventions in Bangladesh. James P. Grant School of Public Health. Monograph Series: 8, BRAC University, Bangladesh. 30 pp.