MDG Report 2012 - United Nations in Bangladesh

eceive antenatal care from a medically trained provider (65 percent), while those in Sylhetare least likely to receive care (47 percent). The likelihood of receiving antenatal care from amedically trained provider increases with the mother‟s education level and wealth status.Coverage of antenatal care from a trained provider increases from 26 percent for motherswith no education to 88 percent for mothers who have completed secondary school or highereducation. Similarly the proportion of women who received ANC from a medically trainedprovider is lowest among those in the lowest wealth quintile (30 percent), and increases witheach wealth quintile to a high of 87 percent among women in the highest wealth quintile.Figure 6.7: Antenatal Care Coverage (1 and 4 visits) from any ProvidersSource: BDHS various years, NIPORT, MOHFW[1996-97 & 1999-00 represent services received from medically trained provides, othersrepresent any providers]Indicator 5.5b: Antenatal care coverage (at least four visits) (%)The BDHS 2011 findings show that not only more women are receiving antenatal care, butthat they are also receiving care more often. The percentage of women who had no ANC visithas declined from 44 percent in 2004 to 32 percent in 2011. At the same time, the percentageof pregnant women who made four or more antenatal visits has increased from 15.9 percentin 2004 to 25.5 percent in 2011. Urban women are more than twice (44.7 percent) as likely asrural women (19.8 percent) to make four or more antenatal visits in 2011. However, althoughthe number of women who receive at least four ANC has increased steadily, these gains willnot be sufficient to reach the MDG target set for 2015. Inequalities in ANC coverage existaccording to rural/urban settings, administrative divisions and household wealth status.Indicator 5.6: Unmet need for family planningThe definition of unmet need for family planning has been recently revised in the BangladeshDemographic and Health Survey (BDHS) 2011. Unmet need for family planning refers tofecund women who are not using contraception but who wish to postpone the next birth(spacing) or stop childbearing altogether (limiting). Specifically, women are considered tohave unmet need for spacing if they are:67