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Published 1/11/2010 | Updated 1/11/2010

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RFSU has partnerships with six organisations in Bangladesh: The Family Planning Association of Bangladesh (FPAB) which works with issues such as family planning, youth friendly clinics, and sexuality education; The Population Services and Training Center (PSTC) which works to spread information concerning sexual and reproductive health for young women in the textile industry and for young women in rural areas; and Steps Towards Development (Steps) which works towards increased equality, and improved conditions for girls and women through the prevention and reduction of sexual and gender based violence. Also, Steps strives to raise women’s participation in decision-making bodies at all levels.

The Reproductive Health Services Training and Education Program (RHSTEP) and Bangladesh Association for Prevention of Septic Abortion (BAPSA) have worked together for more than twenty years with issues such as the right to safe abortion and maternal mortality. Part of their operations include providing services for women and the education of healthcare professionals with the aim of decreasing maternal mortality rates and providing safe abortions for women wishing to terminate their pregnancy. Both organisations have operations in many parts of Bangladesh and offer services to poverty-stricken persons living in areas with little access to reproductive healthcare.

RFSU also works together with Bandhu (Social Welfare Society) with the program “Health and Rights of LGBT-people”. Bandhu is an organization that works for human rights and equal access to healthcare regardless of gender and sexual orientation. Bandhu is a national NGO in Bangladesh that was founded in 1997 and has worked with, among other issues, HIV and AIDS prevention. RFSU has, for the last couple of years, collaborated with Bandhu through the Sida backed LGBT network, ”Alliance in South Asia”. Bandhu works to support the rights of LGBT-persons and has provided healthcare services for men who have sex with men (MSM) for many years. RFSU’s collaboration with Bandhu mainly consists of strengthening and developing Bandhu’s capacity to identify and reach new groups in the LGBT community.

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