The state of reproductive health in Bangladesh is very grim. A relatively wide range of contraceptive methods are available through the government, NGOs and the private sector network. Unsafe abortions result in approximately 8,000 maternal deaths every year. Very little is known about the status of infertility, and facilities for its diagnosis and treatment are also scarce. However., the problem is considered to be quite prevalent.
Information regarding sexual heath also is quite scanty.
Maternal mortality is around 5.7 per thousand live births. Family planning programmes implemented in Bangladesh treat women as numbers to achieve certain targets or goals. Informed consent is almost universally absent in rural areas. The socio-economic conditions in the country hardly allow poor women much free choice in adopting family planning devices. Incentives in cash or kind are provided to poor women for tubal ligation.