Tag: Bangladesh

It has been proposed that teaching boys about puberty and menstruation can help to lessen the stigma associated with menstruation and the unfavourable attitudes toward it. To raise an understanding of puberty and promote a more accepting atmosphere for menstruating school girls, a team of researchers created and tested a school-based intervention for both boys […]

Share-Net Bangladesh have published a new report entitled Access to SRHR information for Adolescents: Perspectives from Grassroot Areas from Barishal District of Bangladesh Executive Summary Bede, riverside dwellers, and slum dwellers are three competing grassroots and marginalised communities. Their socio-economic situation is comparatively poorer than the mainstream communities. SRHR, being a cross-cutting concept, is not […]

A study by the Center for Participatory Research and Development (CPRD) has been published, resulting from work at a seminar titled Climate Injustice Vs Gender Justice: Why should this matter? revealing the adverse effect of climate change negatively affecting 90% of women of coastal regions of Bagerhat and Satkhira districts, in South-West Bangladesh The study […]

Share-Net Bangladesh have published Recommendations for a  National Adaption Plan on Climate Change and SRHR Information for Policymakers in Bangladesh. The recommendations include the following topic areas; Bridging climate action and sustainable development goals (SDGs) Climate change hindering the achievements of SDGs Climate Change, gender equality, and SRHR; situation analysis Key messages on SRHR and […]

According to the Bangladeshi government’s 2011 census, 1.8% of Bangladesh’s total population (1,586,141 individuals) belong to Indigenous communities living in various regions of the nation. These groups of people are known as ‘adibashi’ or ‘upojati’. Mandi is one of the recognized ethnic communities. Among them, indigenous women workers struggle with a lack of employment possibilities […]

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), those aged between 10 and 19 are adolescents, with ages 10 to 14 and 15 to 19 as early and late adolescence, respectively. Bangladesh has the highest rate of teenage pregnancies outside of Sub-Saharan Africa, according to UNFPA, with 113 out of 1000 teenage girls become pregnant before […]

Both the public and private sectors of Bangladesh’s healthcare system lack the full range of SRH services in terms of gender, equity, and rights. The spectrum scarcely addresses any of the SRHR components when it is further connected to climate change. The system offers very limited services, such as those for maternal care, child care, […]

The Gender in Humanitarian Action (GiHA) Working Group in Bangladesh has published a research paper on “Rapid Gender Analysis of Flood Situation in North and North-Eastern Bangladesh” with UN Women, in June 2022. The research was conducted with the help of the National Resilience Programme (NRP) of the Ministry of Disaster Management and Relief, along […]

Long-standing disparities in sexual and reproductive health are coming into conflict with international responses to the COVID-19 epidemic. Studies reveal that although COVID-19 has had a major, and in some cases devastating, influence on health systems around the world, those whose human rights are least safeguarded, such as refugees, displaced peoples, and populations afflicted by […]

This study evaluated the MHM-related knowledge and behaviours of Bihari women living in the Mohammadpur Geneva Camp (MGC) in Dhaka, Bangladesh. This study was carried out by academics from Australia and Bangladesh, and the results were presented in the journal “Women, Midwives and Midwifery – 2022” (Volume 2, Issue 1). The main objective was to […]