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What influences adolescent girls' decision-making regarding contraceptive methods use and childbearing? a qualitative exploratory study in Rangpur District, Bangladesh

Background: Bangladesh has the highest rate of adolescent pregnancy in South Asia. Child marriage is one of the leading causes of pregnancies among adolescent girls. Although the country's contraceptive prevalence rate is ...

False and real, but avoidable, dichotomies

Lessons learned in using realist evaluation to assess maternal and newborn health programming in rural Bangladesh

Realist evaluation furnishes valuable insight to public health practitioners and policy makers about how and why interventions work or don't work. Moving beyond binary measures of success or failure, it provides a systematic ...

Exploring the context in which different close-to-community sexual and reproductive health service providers operate in Bangladesh: a qualitative study

Mahmud, Ilias; Chowdhury, Sadia; Ashraf Siddiqi, Bulbul; Theobald, Sally; Ormel, Hermen; Biswas, Salauddin; Tauseef Jahangir, Yamin; Sarker, Malabika; Faiz Rashid, Sabina (© 2015 BioMed Central Ltd., 2015)

Background: A range of formal and informal close-to-community (CTC) health service providers operate in an increasingly urbanized Bangladesh. Informal CTC health service providers play a key role in Bangladesh's pluralistic ...

Effective coverage for antiretroviral therapy in a Ugandan district with a decentralized model of care

Introduction:While increasing access to antiretroviral therapy (ART) is reported from many African countries, data on effective coverage particular from settings without external support or research remains scarce. We ...

Role of spatial tools in public health policymaking of Bangladesh: opportunities and challenges

In spite of the increasing efforts to gather spatial data in developing countries, the use of maps is mostly for visualization of health indicators rather than informed decision-making. Various spatial tools can aid ...

Achieving universal health coverage through community empowerment: a proposition for Bangladesh

Perceptions of quality across the maternal care continuum in the context of a health financing intervention: Evidence from a mixed methods study in rural Malawi

Background: In 2013, Malawi with its development partners introduced a Results-Based Financing for Maternal and Newborn Health (RBF4MNH) intervention to improve the quality of maternal and newborn health-care services. ...

Knowledge and attitude of key community members towards tuberculosis: mixed method study from BRAC TB control areas in Bangladesh

Background: Bangladesh National Tuberculosis (TB) Control Programme adopted a number of strategies to facilitate TB diagnosis and treatment. 'Advocacy, Communication and Social Mobilization' (ACSM) was one of the key ...