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Health Policy and Planning; 17(3): 273-280
© Oxford University Press 2002

Paying for reproductive health services in Bangladesh: intersections between cost, quality and culture

Sidney Ruth Schuler1, Lisa M Bates2 and MD. Khairul Islam3

1 JSI Research and Training Institute, Arlington, VA, USA,
2 Harvard University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA and
3 PLAN International, Dhaka, Bangladesh

In 1997 a consortium of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Bangladesh began to implement health sector reform measures intended to expand access to and improve the quality of family planning and other basic health services. The new service delivery model entails higher costs for clients and requires that they take greater initiative. Clients have to travel further to get certain services, and they have to pay more for them than they did under the previous door-to-door family planning model. This paper is based on findings from a qualitative study looking at client and community reactions to the programme changes. It examines a number of barriers to access and constraints to cost recovery, including gender, class and ideas about entitlements, the role of government and obligations among people. The NGOs want to maximize cost recovery while making the basic services they offer accessible to most people. The findings suggest that this requires more than the establishment of an appropriate pricing structure. Attitudes related to charging and paying for services must also change, along with the institutional policies and practices that support them.


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