Living with infertility: Experiences among urban slum populations in Bangladesh

Reproductive Health Matters

Volumn 8, Issue 15, 2000, Pages 33-44

  Papreen, Nahar ^a   Sharma, Anjali ^b   Sabin, Keith ^b   Begum, Lutfa ^b   Ahsan, S Khaled ^b   Baqui, Abdulla H ^b  

^a ICDDR B Centre for Health and Population Research   (Bangladesh)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Bangladesh; Infertility; Stigma; Traditional beliefs; Treatment seeking behaviour

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BANGLADESH; COMMUNITY; HUMAN; INFERTILITY; MARRIAGE; POVERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL ISOLATION; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE;

EID: 0034040469     PISSN: 09688080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0968-8080(00)90004-1     Document Type: Article

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