Impact of Good Family Planning Services in Reducing Abortion
Abortion rates are significantly lower in the area with better family planning services. Abortion of unintended pregnancies is similar in both areas. However, the higher levels of contraceptive use in the treatment … Read More »
Training and Service on Menstrual regulation in Bangladesh
Physician providers are mostly serve clients from a higher socioeconomic status. On the other hand, paramedical providers are more likely to serve MR clients from lower socioeconomic status. Most of the women receiving … Read More »
Occurrence of Menstrual Regulation and Abortion
Despite of having highly restrictive abortion law, Bangladesh has menstrual regulation (MR) services as part of the government family planning program. There is no updated national estimates of MR and abortion … Read More »
History of Menstrual Regulation in Bangladesh
Only in order to save the life of a pregnant women, induced abortion is permitted in Bangladesh. Initially in 1979, legalization of abortion on medical and social grounds was proposed which … Read More »
Menstrual Regulation, An Innovative Reproductive Healthcare
In Bangladesh, abortion is legally restricted as it is considered as a crime. However, in order to reduce female morbidity and mortality associated with indigenous abortion, Bangladesh government introduced early menstrual … Read More »
The Changing Perceptions regarding Hijra in South Asian
In South Asian societies, the third gender called hijra has been in the culture as well as in religion since ancient times. In these societies, it was believed that hijras have … Read More »
Right to Education of The Third Gender of Bangladesh
The term third gender is commonly known as Hijras in Bangladesh. They are severely isolated and marginalized group of people in our society. Since the ancient time, hijras have been a … Read More »
International Rights-Based Advocacy for Health of Transgender
Transgender people are unable to have utmost possible health status. In terms of health care services, extensive disparities and barriers exist for the transgender. Compared to general population, trans population face … Read More »
The Paradox of Recognition: Hijra in Bangladesh
In South Asia, if a person has difference between gender and sexuality is called hijra. They are part of openly established subculture of male-bodied feminine-identified people. Hijra has been there in … Read More »
Human Rights, the Law, and HIV among Transgender People
Transgender people are the ones’ whose gender identity contrasts from their birth sex. Gender identities are, by nature, complex and fluid. Gender demonstrations and local traditional empathies vary from country to … Read More »
