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YEAR: 1997

CATEGORY: Contraception (Birth Control) and Family Planning

TITLE

Contraceptives at your doorstep: two urban and two rural areas of Bangladesh.

AUTHORS

Kabir SM; Chaklader H

SOURCE

In: Reproductive rights in practice: a feminist report on quality of care, edited by

Anita Hardon and Elizabeth Hayes. London, England, Zed Books, 1997. :112-32.

ABSTRACT

This document is the eighth chapter in a book that examines the quality of reproductive health care from a feminist

perspective by considering the extent to which reproductive rights are realized in eight countries that have ratified the

UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (Bangladesh, Kenya, Mexico,

Nigeria, Thailand, Bolivia, Finland, and the Netherlands). This chapter, which provides a case study of two urban

and two rural areas of Bangladesh, opens by reviewing the history of Bangladesh's family planning (FP) program,

basic demographic facts, and past and present population policies and targets. After describing the study design

and the service providers, the chapter presents the findings of the study in terms of free and informed choice of FP

methods, the price of various methods, restrictions on FP method availability, the provision of balanced and objective

information, clients' perspective on the quality of counseling and information provided, avoidance of incentives and

disincentives, the condition of the health care infrastructure, the adequacy of physical examinations during

consultations, advice given to breast-feeding mothers, management of side effects, integration of services, and

views of contraceptive users and nonusers about quality of care provided. In addition, a summary is provided of the

results of focus groups discussions with adolescents on such topics as knowledge about local service delivery

points, services available, the need for FP, contraceptive knowledge, and suggestions for improvement.

Recommendations include improving informed choice by improving counseling, examining the use of incentives for

FP training, involving men in FP, improving the contraceptive supply, restructuring the fees for services, and

encouraging greater cooperation between nongovernmental and governmental agencies. (PubHealth.info Document

ID: CONT2T 516-06)

PubHealth.info NOTE: The author(s) of this article titled, "Contraceptives at your doorstep: two urban and two rural

areas of Bangladesh.", is(are) Kabir SM; Chaklader H. The source of this article is "In: Reproductive rights in

practice: a feminist report on quality of care, edited by Anita Hardon and Elizabeth Hayes. London, England, Zed

Books, 1997. :112-32.". This article was published in 1997 in English language(s). (PubHealth.info® Document ID:

CONT2T 516-06. All rights reserved with PubHealth.info) PIN: 5516

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