Status of Transgender People in Bangladesh: A Socio-economic-Analysis
The life of a transgender is a continuous struggle between the society and the true sexual identity of an individual. During this process, individuals have to face the unequal treatment and … Read More »
HIV Landscape in Bangladesh and a Comparison to the Global Context
The prevalence of HIV in Bangladesh is not alarming but the trend is. Every year the number of newly diagnosed infection is increasing along with the number of death due to … Read More »
Sex Worker Community-led Interventions Interrupt STI/HIV Transmission and Improve Human Immunodeficiency Virus Cascade Outcomes: A Program Review from South India
Ashodaya Samithi, an organization run by and for female, male, and transgender sex workers in Mysore, India, has worked since 2004 to prevent sexually transmitted infection (STI)/human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) transmission … Read More »
Forward, Together: A Collaborative Path to Comprehensive Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in Our Time
The 1994 International Conference on Population and Development established a basis for the advancement of adolescent sexual and reproductive health and rights (ASRHR) that endures today. Twenty-five years later, our vision … Read More »
A Package of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Interventions and What Does It Mean for Adolescents?
This article analyzes the relevance of the comprehensive definition of sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) to adolescents and identifies adolescent specific implications for the implementation of an essential package … Read More »
The Political, Research, Programmatic, and Social Responses to Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in the 25 Years Since the International Conference on Population and Development
Among the ground-breaking achievements of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD)was its call to place adolescent sexual and reproductive health (ASRH) on global health and development agendas. This article … Read More »
Experiencing shame: An affective reading of the sexual and reproductive health and rights classroom in Bangladesh
This paper looks at how shame functions in the teaching of sexual and reproductive health and rights in the classrooms for 13–19 year-olds in secondary schools in Bangladesh. Using the theoretical … Read More »
Increasing access to safe menstrual regulation services in Bangladesh by offering medical menstrual regulation
In spite of wide availability of menstrual regulation services, women often resort to a variety of medicines for inducing abortion. The Bangladeshi Government is now supporting attempts to investigate the introduction … Read More »
A narrative review of the literature on the reproductive health of female sex workers having age below twenty years
Objective: Female sex workers (FSWs) under 20 years of age range from 1,000 to 575,000 in different cities and countries across the globe. There is only a handful of information on the … Read More »
The use of educational strategies for promotion of knowledge, attitudes and contraceptive practices among teenagers – A randomized clinical trial
Abstract Objective To evaluate two educational interventions and identify differences between them in what concerns the promotion of knowledge, attitudes and practices in relation to the pill and male condom. Methods … Read More »