Bangladesh is facing a growing contraceptive supply crisis, raising concerns over access to birth control and reproductive healthcare services across the country. Shortages of essential contraceptives have reportedly disrupted family planning programmes, affecting thousands of women and healthcare providers. The crisis has sparked concern among public health experts over its potential social and economic impact if supply chains are not restored quickly.


Bangladesh Contraceptive Crisis: Birth Control Supplies Hit By Crisis 

The grassroots government workers in China, after spending decades in the imposition of birth control policies, have now started ringing women and appealing to them to get pregnant amid the country's dwindling demography.

China is now monitoring couples' 'right time' to conceive a baby and pregnancy. But why?

Researchers on Sunday (June 2) presented the promising phase 2 trial results from an ongoing study of a new male hormonal contraceptive gel at ENDO 2024, the Endocrine Society’s annual conference in Boston.

Study finds new male birth control gel safe and effective; reveal promising trial results

Women taking weight loss drugs are experiencing surprise pregnancies, including those who are on birth control pills and those dealing with infertility issues for a long time.

Women using weight loss drugs are witnessing surprise pregnancies. Experts tell why

4,500 women fitted with birth control devices without consent

A group of 67 women from Greenland is seeking compensation from the Danish government for a campaign of involuntary birth control that occurred in the 1960s. This campaign targeted at least 4,500 women, including teenagers, with the aim of limiting birth rates among the indigenous population of Greenland, which was a Danish colony until 1953.

Greenland: Women seek compensation over involuntary birth control scandal from 1960s

A mass wedding in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh grabbed headlines after condoms and contraceptive pills were found inside make-up boxes given to brides as gifts.

Madhya Pradesh: Condoms, birth control pills part of ‘vanity kit’ at mass wedding event

The United States has registered a significant rise in the use of Plan B emergency contraception, also known as the “morning-after” pill over the past five years while demand for other forms of contraception like birth control pills and condoms has reduced, according to an analysis of market research data by the Financial Times.

US: Upsurge in demand for morning-after pill as abortion restrictions persist

China has recently announced that all married couples would now be able to have up to three children, up from the previous limit of two. But the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) government did not scrap birth caps in the entire region of China.

As Chinese couples get approval for 3 kids, Uighur women still subjected to birth control horrors

Adding to concerns about the inhumane treatment of the Uighur community in Xinjiang, new research has claimed that birth rates have fallen in the Chinese region by almost half in the past two years.

Birth rate fell in Xinjiang after implementation of birth control policies: Report

Days after China was accused of forcing birth control measures on the Uighur women in the Xinjiang region, China has once again denied these allegations and has instead claimed the government has instead helped the minority women out of a patriarchal practice.

China denies forceful use of birth control measures on Uighur women

The US Supreme Court on Wednesday endorsed a plan by President Donald Trump's administration to give employers broad religious and moral exemptions from a federal mandate that health insurance they provide to their workers includes coverage for women's birth control.

US Supreme Court permits broad religious exemption to birth control coverage

U.S. new revelation in birth control pills, star-shaped tablet to unfold in the stomach.

Experimental birth control capsule

Scientists have developed a technique that may eventually allow ladies to take birth control pills simply once a month. Birth control pills work great if women remember to take them every day but missing doses can mean a surprise pregnancy.

Birth Control: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation invest in once-a-month pill to avoid surprise pregnancy

Pregnant, desperate, and poor, Pakistani mother Zameena faced a stark choice: risk her life by having a secret abortion, or risk her life bearing her husband a sixth child.

Desperate measures: Pakistani women seek abortions as birth control

The ministry of health and family welfare added that the infant mortality rate also declined by 8 per cent from 37 per 1,000 live births to 34

Government says 90,000 fewer infant deaths in 2016

The four laws, which include childbirth restrictions, breach the convention against women discrimination, which Myanmar joined in 1997

UN panel to question Myanmar's anti-women, anti-Islam legislation at Geneva meet

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