Stop Child Marriage: Spotting the Root Causes
Child marriage continues to be a reality for many of the world’s girls because of a variety of factors. These include poverty, lack of education and job opportunities, insecurity in the … Read More »
The Contemporary Factors for Child Marriage in Bangladesh; A Statistical Analysis
Summary: At present Bangladesh is the fifth highest country of child marriage in the world while 18 percent of girls got married before age of 15 and 52 percent before age of … Read More »
Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health in South Asia
The health needs of the adolescents are much different from the needs of adults. These health needs need to be addressed and achieved. At the same time, the adolescents need to … Read More »
Sex-selective Abortions in South Asia
In South Asian countries, most of the people prefer to have a son than daughter. In these societies, women are very less respected and have low social status. Despite of having … Read More »
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 »