Tag: Covid-19

Are you looking for information in the context of SRHR in the era of Covid-19? At Share-Net International, we found a comprehensive list of 26 Covid and SRHR articles and commentaries via the Sexual and Reproductive Health Journal, and also added our current Covid-19 articles below, totalling more than 40 resources. If you’re looking for […]

Pregnant women with COVID-19 are more likely to have complications with pregnancy and birth than those without, according to the research journal PLOS Medicine. The study looked at hospitalisation for births in France during the first six months of the pandemic and suggested that vaccination may be useful to protect women and their babies, particularly […]

Reports of classrooms empty of girls in the ninth and tenth grades are coming from all over Bangladesh. This is an opinion piece authored by Shaheen Anam, Executive Director of Manusher Jonno Foundation (MJF). Shorolika Parveen from Kurigram dreamt of playing in the national football team someday and had even received a best player award […]

Child labour and child marriages have surged in Bangladesh amid the pandemic, found a recent study by Manusher Jonno Foundation (MJF) – unravelling the decades of progress made on bringing down the two social ills. Between April and October 2020, at least 13,886 girls between the ages of 10 to 17 were forced into child […]

In Bangladesh, 51% of women who are currently aged 20-24 were married while they were still children, according to UNICEF. Around 6,500 female high school students in Rajshahi were married-off in the district during the last 18 months when schools were closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. There are 103,407 female high school students in […]