The idea of a national free legal services organisation was mooted at a national conference of lawyers held in 1992 under the auspices of the Bangladesh Bar Council. As a follow up to this idea, BLAST was established as a not-for-profit Trust, with a Board of Trustees comprising eminent jurists, lawyers, and former judges of the Bangladesh Supreme Court. It was incorporated in May 1993 with the Registrar of Joint Stock Companies as a company limited by guarantee, and was registered in December 1993 with the NGO Affairs Bureau of the Government of Bangladesh.

Marie Stops Clinic Society

Marie Stops was established in 1988 in Chittagong following a survey by Marie Stopes International (MSI) which highlighted the need for a high quality family planning service in the region. MS started thier journey with a modest clinic financed by the UK's then Overseas Development Administration Joint Funding Scheme. This clinic soon became very successful due to its client focus, high quality services and innovative marketing. Within three years, approximately 500 clients were being seen each month, and the clinic was well on the way to financial sustainability.

Following this success, MS set up three more clinics in 1990-92 with European Commission co-financing, and in 1994 established an employment based family planning project with further funding from the ODA's JFS. By 1995, MS had firmly established itself as a high quality service provider and as a result was awarded a large bilateral grant by the UK's Department for International Development (DFID). This allowed us to establish a head office in Dhaka, invest substantially in developing and expanding our team and significantly expand our service delivery network. Simultaneously, we also extended the range of reproductive health services provided in our clinics, including the management of sexually transmitted infections – an area in which our expertise is ranked very highly in Bangladesh. The DFID project also provided us with the opportunity to work with vulnerable and marginalized groups, and to work in partnership with other non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to help address the needs of these groups.

The Obstetrical and Gynaecological Society of Bangladesh (OGSB) is a National forum of Obstetricians and Gynaecologist of Bangladesh. OGSB is working for women's life cycle from womb to tomb and dedicated to build the Nation with human resource development.

Bangladesh Women's Health Coalition (BWHC), a national NGO, was established in 1980 with the vision of “Equality of Women in a Just Civil Society”. The organization is pioneered in establishing a health service delivery model, where the community mother can access a wide range of health services for her and her children with informed voice and choice.

In Bangladesh, each year about 20,000 women die from pregnancy related causes. At least one-fifth of these deaths is caused by induced abortion, a problem that could be tackled quite significantly through good quality reproductive health care. Needless to mention, in Bangladesh abortion complications have adverse effects on public health in terms of premature deaths, illness, injuries, and impaired fertility, on the one hand, and on economic conditions of the affected families in terms of cost of emergency treatment, purchase of medicines etc., on the other. However, this gloomy situation with respect to women health could not be expected to continue for long and hence the efforts of the country's health sector to deal with the situation through various means and measures. In this respect, there is no gainsaying that Bangladesh Health and Family Planning Proqgram has made remarkable progress over the last two decades in the domain of women's health. This is testified by certain facts i.e., fertility transition, success of immunization program, CPR at 54% level, and the decline in TFR from 6.3 in 1971-75 to 3.3 in 1999-2000 (National Strategy for Maternal Health, 2001).

The Bangladesh Menopause Society was founded in 2005; its first scientific seminar was held in December 2005. Membership is open to specialist and non-specialist doctors, paramedics, teachers and social workers who are directly or indirectly involved with the management of menopausal problems, e.g. physical medicine experts, orthopedic surgeons, cardiac physicians, psychiatrists, rheumatologists, representatives of the pharmaceutical industries, and members of social organizations like Innerwheel, Zonta and Rotary. Gynecologists treating menopausal problems are not known as menopause specialists. Most endocrinologists are not gynecologists.