The study was carried out to review the experience with the existing user-fee (pricing)
strategies and examine the socioeconomic and demographic factors associated with …

The Family Planning Program in Bangladesh has been very successful. The contraceptive
prevalence rate (CPR) has increased from 13% in 1979 to 49% in 1996. Now that the …

This is a report on a study that examined the characteristics of three types of commercial
providers of oral contraceptives, as well as users and users' husbands. The study also …

This article explores the socioeconomic factors affecting contraceptive use and method
choice among women of urban slums using the nationally representative 2006 Bangladesh …

Background: The population of urban areas has been increasing in an alarming rate. The
people of urban slums increased faster than non-slum areas over the decades. At present …

The introduction of cost-sharing strategies such as user-fees for health care in developing
countries has received increasing attention due to declining government expenditure on …

Results of this recent study in rural Bangladesh suggest that programs that draw women out
of their homes and reduce their dependence on men are contributing to greater use of …

PIP: Data from the 1981 Contraceptive Prevalence Survey (CPS) in Bangladesh were
analyzed to identify and facilitate understanding of the factors responsible for urban-rural …

Objective: We revisited the costs of Family Planning per woman served per year in the public
sector using data from the Pakistan Demographic and Health Survey 2017-18. These costs …

Abstract Background: In Pakistan, there is a clear imbalance between the population's
needs and available resources to cater for spacing and limiting childbirth as desired by …