Contextualising sexual harassment of adolescent girls in Bangladesh
Researchers from Newcastle University, Rutgers in the Netherlands and Amsterdam University came together to collaborate in this paper. This paper aims to contextualize a particular form of sexual harassment, namely “eve … Read More »
Women with infertility develop anxiety as a result of harassment from family members
Researchers from Armed Forces Medical College and Anwar Khan Modern Medical College collaborated on a paper which examined the psychological impacts of infertile woman. The data was collected from 112 purposively … Read More »
Women empowerment interventions should include IPV protection for better mental health benefits in case of harassment in workplace
Researchers at icddrb collaborated with two reseachers from South Africa on this paper examining the pathways of violence and depression in case of garment workers. The study was a cross-sectional quasi-experimental … Read More »
Evaluation of a platform against sexual harassment in Dhaka
Researchers from three different universities, Cornell University, North South University an BUET came together to create a platform and evaluate the effectiveness of the platform. Public sexual harassment has emerged as … Read More »
Decision making power on child health care important predictors of unmet need of contraception in Bangladesh
The study was conducted by researchers from Rajshahi University. The researcher found that region, place of residence, religion, husband’s desire for children, visits of FP workers, decision-making power on child health … Read More »
Unmet need of contraception contributing to rise in unintended pregnancy in Bangladesh.
Unmet need for contraception and unintended pregnancy are important public health concerns both in developing and developed countries. This study was conducted by researchers at Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of … Read More »
Access to water and sanitation among people with disabilities
A multi country study was conducted in Bangladesh, Cameroon, India and Malawi on access to water and sanitation among people with disabilities. The findings state that In Bangladesh-2, households including a person with … Read More »
Married women relying more on short term method.
A recent evidence review was published in Reproductive Health looked at contraceptive practice among married women in Bangladesh. The researchers found that married Bangladeshi women are choosing short term methods more than … Read More »
Adolescent motherhood in Bangladesh: Trends and determinants
For trend analysis they used all the 7 waves of Bangladesh Demographic and Health survey (BDHS, 1993–2014) data but for multivariate analysis they used 4 waves of BDHS (2004–2014) data. Two … Read More »
Parents’ attitude towards sex education in Bangladesh
Bangladesh government introduced sex education in the textbooks. The research team looked at parents’ attitude to inclusion of sex education in the textbooks. The study examined the attitude of Bangladeshi parents’ … Read More »