The BBS report did not indicate where users obtained most contraceptives. But according to the Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey 2022 of the National Institute of Population Research and Training (NIPORT), another body of the government, 55 percent use modern methods and 9 percent use traditional methods of contraception. And 60 percent of the people…
Speaking about the matter, Upazila Family Planning Directorate head Abdullah Al Mamun said that Koira is a densely populated upazila. Although there are 33 units of the Directorate of Family Planning in this upazila, there is a shortage of manpower to run them. Although there are all types of birth control medicines in supply, these…
Social Marketing Companies (SMCs) supply 45 per cent of oral contraceptive pills and 62 per cent of condoms in the market. The price of this company’s best-selling oral contraceptive Famicon has increased from Rs 34.58 to Rs 40. SMC has seven brands of condoms. Among these, the price of Panther has increased from Rs 15…
Bikash Roy, manager of S Rahman Pharmacy in Banani Road No. 2, said that SMC has stopped the supply of products for two weeks till the end of January. When it resumed supplies in the second week of February, it was charging a higher price. “When customers ask us why the prices went up, we…
Talking to Prothom Alo about the non-availability of free birth control services, MD Niyazur, line director, Field Services Delivery Unit, Directorate of Family Planning, said, there is disparity in this free service across cities. In Dhaka, three specialized hospitals of the directorate provide this service. In addition, the Municipal Corporation provides service. The Health Department…
Relying on humanitarian aid to survive, Begum said she lacked the resources to adequately feed and shelter a second child. She said, “God willing, I will try permanent birth control after my third child.” Family planning has a horrific history for the Rohingya, some 750,000 of whom fled their homes five years ago after a…