Comprehensive Sexuality Education for Youth
Young people obtain a variety of conflicting and confusing messages about sexuality and gender. We believe that a thorough and high quality curriculum-based sexuality education program can help all children and … Read More »
HIV and opportunistic infection
Bangladesh is seeing a rapid increase in HIV/ AIDS cases in high risk population – specially injecting drug users (IDUs). This study was conducted to get a picture of the spectrum … Read More »
More than half of adolescent population unaware of STDs
Adolescents are more vulnerable than adults of unplanned pregnancies, sexually transmitted diseases and HIV/AIDS. Among the adolescents, girls are more vulnerable to STDs including HIV/AIDS. Their knowledge about different diseases is … Read More »
High STD rate in brothel based sex workers: potential for HIV spread
This decade old study documents the first systematic assessment of a brothel in Bangladesh in terms of sexually transmitted disease (STD) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Two hundred and ninety-six CSWs … Read More »
Benefits and Costs of Sexual and Reproductive Health for Bangladesh
Family planning is one of the most important interventions in sexual and reproductive health in Bangladesh. It plays an important role in controlling population and for achieving sustainable development goals. More … Read More »
Sex and Gender-based analysis in Health Research
Much work has been done to promote sex and gender-based analyses in health research and to think critically about the influence of sex and gender on health behaviors and outcomes. However, … Read More »
Sex Bias in the Family Allocation of Food and Health Care in Rural Bangladesh
This study examines the behavioral antecedents to the higher female than male mortality from shortly after birth through the childbearing ages in a rural area of Bangladesh. A framework is presented … Read More »
The Effect of Power in Sexual Relationships on Sexual and Reproductive Health
This article reviews what has been learned to date about the role of gender-based power in sexual relationships in determining sexual and reproductive health outcomes. A framework for assessing the relationship … Read More »
Absent and Problematic Men: Male Reproductive Roles
Both men and women are important actors in bringing children into life, yet demographic studies on reproduction have tended to focus on women alone. The aims of this article are: to … Read More »
HIV/AIDS-Related Stigma: Health Care Providers’ side of the story
People living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) are stigmatized and looked at negatively by people at large. Stigma, discrimination, and prejudice extend its reach to people associated with HIV-positive people such as health … Read More »