Health authorities must give due priority to this essential public health service.

Karima Begum found herself in a challenging situation when her husband returned home.

The public sector now provides only 37 percent of modern contraception, down from 44 percent in 2011.

Bangladesh has had one of the strongest and most successful national family planning initiatives in the world.

As we are living in the modern and 'evolved' era, all aspects of life and people's lifestyles have taken a turn, a leap. Old perceptions are going as people embrace new and unprecedented techniques, methods and inventions.

Bangladesh needs to focus on promoting long-term and permanent contraceptive methods to control further growth of population, experts say at an international conference in Bali.