Scott Geibel, Sharif M.I. Hossain, Julie Pulerwitz, Nargis Sultana et al.
Purpose Working with health providers to reduce HIV stigma in the healthcare setting is an important strategy to improve service utilization and quality of care, especially for young people who are sexually active before marriage, are sexual minorities, or who sell sex. A stigma reduction training p...
Sharif Hossain, Pooja Sripad, Brady Zieman, Shongkour Roy et al.
BACKGROUND: Low rates of contraceptive continuation in Bangladesh are a symptom of poor quality family planning (FP) counseling. Improving family planning counseling by the country's community health care workers (CHWs) could improve contraceptive continuation. This study explores client experiences...
Eileen A. Yam, Nargis Sultana, Tarik Hossain, Brady Zieman et al.
Globally, reproductive health research among female sex workers (FSWs) often focuses on pregnancy prevention, but many women who sell sex aspire to have children in the future. In Bangladesh, where early marriage and parenthood is the norm, we examine reproductive histories and childbearing desires ...