USAID: Bangladesh: Population & Health


	Population & Health

National Successes

With support from USAID and other donors over the past 25 years, Bangladesh has made impressive gains in population and child health:

A decline in the total fertility rate from 7 births per woman in the mid-1970s to 3.0 in 2004.

An increase in the contraceptive prevalence rate from 8% in the mid-1970s to 58% in 2004.

A decline in infant mortality rates from 150/1,000 live births in the mid-1970s to 65/1,000 in 2004.

A reduction in mortality for children under five years of age from about 250/1,000 in the mid-1970s to 88/1,000 in 2003.

Program Successes: Population & Health

NGO health clinics provided over 27 million customer service contacts in 2008, out of which 27% were provided to the poorest of the poor, at subsidized cost or for free.

USAID’s programs contribute to 40 percent of Bangladesh’s modern contraceptive use rate of 48%.

Between 2007 and 2008, contraceptive protection provided through USAID’s program increased by 20%.

Social marketing sales of oral rehydration salts reached 200 million sachets in 2008, a 9% increase over 2007 sales figure.

The number of safe deliveries provided through USAID programs increased by 6 fold in a year, due to both increased demand and geographic expansion of service availabilty.

TB case detection rates in USAID programs increased from 50% in 2007 to over 70% in 2008.