| Abstract: | The President of Bangladesh announced a governmental population policy which aims at checking the country's population explosion. In line with this newly-announced policy, the national family planning program, aided by the Bangladesh Association for Voluntary Sterilization,, launched an intensive sterilization compaign in mid-1977. In the 1st 3 months of the program operation, 128 doctors were trained at 15 rural health centers. During this same period, more than 50,000 vas and more than 25,000 tubectomies were performed. It is estimated that each of these sterilizations will avert 1.8 births on an average. |
