Improving Community Based Family Planning Services and the Potential for Increasing Contraceptive Prevalence in Bangladesh

摘要

A set of 13 varied special family planning (fp) projects recently implemented in Bangladesh is described, and their results in terms of the contraceptive prevalence rate (CPR) analyzed, in order to (1) investigate the degree to which improved fp service delivery in Bangladesh can increase contraceptive use in the present status of demand, (2) investigate the programmatic factors most associated with increased prevalence, and (3) make these projects more widely known. Criteria for inclusion included coverage of a defined geographic area where household distribution of contraceptive supplies was available, and at least one measurement of CPR has been made through credible survey efforts since July 1988. The projects varied substantially in design, intensity, programmatic focus, geographic area,implementing agency, and evaluating agency. All were rural or largely so.