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 […]
Field workers of the Directorate of Family Planning distribute free birth control contraceptives to eligible couples. These contraceptives can also be obtained from government centres. These contraceptives include Implanon, condoms, oral birth control pills, emergency contraceptive pills (ECP), IUDs, injections, and implants. Five colors are used on the website to indicate the stock of contraceptives […]
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 […]
They identified 50 videos posted between December 2019 and December 2021 by influencers with 20,000 to 2.2 million followers. The videos were then analyzed to determine the influencers’ attitudes to hormonal birth control, including birth control pills, injections and implants, and non-hormonal versions, such as fertility tracker apps and condoms. The findings showed that of […]
