RESEARCH ARTICLE Assessing the experiences l r

Full list of author information is available at the end of the articleterized by severe human rights violations, civil conflict, and persecution of ethnic and linguistic minorities. The military regime surrounded villages with landmines, forced slave labour among villagers, sexually assaulted women, and burned existing crops [1,2]. Combined with inequity in food distribution, healthcare services, and education the situation has led to the displacement of millions; this as the approximately 1.5 million people living in Thailand as undocumented migrants or as residents of the nine “un-official ” refugee camps [1]. This overall context has had profound consequences for reproductive health. The maternal mortality ratio (MMR) in Eastern Burma is estimated at 700 to 1,200 [3,4], more than three times the national average. The contraceptive prevalence rate in Burma as a whole has long hovered at less than 40 % and is estimated to be sig-nificantly less in conflict affected areas [5,6]. One of th