Healthy Fertility Study: Operations Research to Address Unmet Need for Contraception in the Postpartum Period in Sylhet District, Bangladesh Final Report

Publish Date: February 2014
Author: MCHIP
Language: English

This report presents findings from the 36-month postpartum follow-up survey of the study “Operations research to address  unmet need for contraception in the postpartum period in Sylhet District, Bangladesh,” also known as the “Healthy Fertility Study.” Funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), this project began in 2007 as a partnership of the Bangladesh Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW), the Bangladeshi nongovernmental organization (NGO) Shimantik, the Center for Data Processing and Analysis (CDPA), ACCESS-FP, and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (JHSPH). In December 2010, the study transitioned from ACCESS-FP to MCHIP. The MCHIP partners on the Healthy Fertility Study include Jhpiego and the Institute for International Programs of JHSPH. Shimantik has long provided family planning (FP) services through its clinics in the service areas and carried out other development projects.