Induced abortion: What's happening in rural Bangladesh

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21. These two sub-districts are field sites of the Operations Research Project (ORP) of the International Center for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B). Interventions in health and family planning are tested in parts of these sub-districts. The Project has a surveillance system for collecting data on major demographic events and programmatic variables in both sites (since 1982 in Abhoynagar and 1994 in Mirsarai).
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