Factors related to Teenage Pregnancy in South Asia
Within the total population of South Asia, a huge portion is young people. Unfortunately, one of the major public health problems of these countries is health hazard created from teenage pregnancy. … Read More »
Pathways to Adolescent Health through Proper Sleep Regulation
For the proper physical and mental growth and balance, sleep is a must need for every adolescent. Adolescent behavior is closely correlated with adequate sleep. Most of the people are unaware … Read More »
Maternal Health Care-Seeking Behaviour of Married Adolescent Girls
A prospective qualitative study was conducted among thirty married adolescent girls from three Upazilas (sub-districts) of Rangpur district. They were interviewed in two subsequent phases (2014 and 2015). To triangulate and … Read More »
Adolescent friendly health corners in Bangladesh
This study carried out in five Maternal and Child Welfare Center (MCWC)s and Upazilla Health and Family Welfare Center (UHFWC)s between August and September 2016 to look at the newly established … Read More »
Learning From The Link Up Project
Public on the prestigious Journal of Adolescent Health, this article explores the relationship between Sexual and Reproductive Health and HIV. Sexual health and access to services are a pressing need for … Read More »
Understanding preference of child marriage
The practice of early marriage for women is prevalent in developing countries around the world today, and is believed to cause significant disruption in their accumulation of human capital. This paper … Read More »
Factors affecting nutritional status of young mothers
Early childbearing influences women’s health. This study aims to examine the effects of sociodemographic factors on nutritional status of early childbearing mothers in Bangladesh based on Body Mass Index (BMI) as … Read More »
Reducing child marriage and increasing girls’ schooling in Bangladesh
Child marriage stubbornly persists in South Asia, despite being associated with lower education, higher fertility and mortality rates, and poor health among adolescent mothers and their children. According to the Bangladesh … Read More »
Alternative Approaches to Reducing Child Marriage in Bangladesh
A clustered randomized trial in Bangladesh examines alternative strategies to reduce child marriage and teenage childbearing and increase girls’ education. Communities were randomized into three treatment and one control group in … Read More »
A Randomised Controlled Trial to test best practices for delaying child marriage
In 2012, Population council and partners started a 4 year randomised controlled trial, with the aim to find strategies which are proven to be successful in reducing child marriage. BALIKA results … Read More »