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Association for Prevention of Septic Abortion

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Establishment
: 1982
Org. Website
Head of organisation
: Altaf Hossain
Contact Persons
: Altar Hossain
Contact Persons Email
: altafh.bapsa@gmail.com

About the organisation

Vision:
Safer society ensuring equitable quality sexual and reproductive health care.

Mission:
Ensuring easy access to affordable quality SRHR services
Developing skilled and gender sensitive professionals
Empowering community with SRHR knowledge.
Strengthening advocacy and networking mechanism
Generating new knowledge related SRHR through research initiatives.

Main Strategy:
To fulfill the missions, vision and objectives of the organization BAPSA’s main strategies include: Policy decision for improving the reproductive health of the vulnerable and marginalized women, men, children and adolescents; top -down approach of decisions and involvement of all managerial and supervisors of the field functionaries; members and associated stakeholders are being informed about the policy issues; opinion pool of target groups; following collaborative approach; openness of communications and feedback system. Besides, BAPSA follows two prongs –strategy to provide services, a) Clinical services through establishing Reproductive Health Clinics at the different locations of the country to contribute reducing MMR and reaching Safe Sexual and Reproductive Health related services to the poor and vulnerable people and reaching information on Sexual and Reproductive Health and rights to all male and female citizen of Bangladesh b) provide BCC and Advocacy Services in order to bring about an attitudinal changes for establishing the reproductive rights of women; carryout advocacy to deal with the health impact of unsafe abortion as a major public health concern through community involvement and also the members of the civil society. BAPSA also give emphasis on private-public partnership for capacity development.

SRHR publications/research

Menstrual Regulation Providers in Bangladesh;
Evaluation of MR services in Bangladesh;
Study on Hospital-based descriptive study of illegally induced Abortion-Related Mortality and Morbidity and its cost on health services;
Facilitation of the distribution of MR equipment;
Proceeding on the international symposium on anti-progestins;
Prospects of MR services in Bangladesh- results from an operation research;
Utilsation of reproductive health care services in Dhaka city;
Septic Abortion- Results from an Anthropological study;
Health professional survey and hospital survey on abortion in Bangladesh;
Incidence and prevalence of abortion in Bangladesh, 2011, conducted by BAPSA and RTM international;
Incidence of MR procedure and abortion in Bangladesh, 2011, International perspectives of SRH;
Menstrual and unsafe abortion and maternal health in Bangladesh;
Menstrual regulation and post abortion care in Bangladesh: Factors associated with access to and quality services.