International Journal of Pharmacology1811-77751812-5700Asian Network for Scientific Information10.3923/ijp.2012.10.20KabirM.A. HuqM.N. Al-AminAbul Quasem AlamGazi Mahabubul 1201281Old fashioned Community Participation (CP) in Healthcare and Family Planning Programs (HFPPs) requires a number of revisions in order to confront the challenges of 21st century. Fundamentally operating any large project likewise HFPPs requires a mammoth budget. It is thus important to have some financial gains and savings for a state from the relevant areas by introducing a newer project. Evidences assert that HFPPs consumes a higher endowment without reducing the pharmaceutical cost in the respective area. Thus, in such situations, state faces financial constraints by introducing supplementary or a parallel projects. Considering this issue as research problem, this study was conducted in Bangladesh to understand the impact of community participation on HFPPs. An analytical justification is used to discover the factors that are causing the problems for existing HFPPs. Observation also notes that HFPPs fails in plummeting pharmaceutical service costing in the respective area. It rather works as marketing tool for pharmaceutical business. Additional findings indicate that socio-economic condition, basic knowledge and fundamental awareness are essential in receiving the extended benefit. In addition to these, integration of CP and HFPPs may overcome the problems of the gap between demand and available resources for meeting the extensive healthcare that a country needs. However, it is also somehow constrained because of inadequate education and knowledge in the respective area of the rural population who are the key dependents on HFPPs. Therefore, we emphasize both on the redesigning of existing HFPPs and education attainment for the long term benefits. Our study is witness to support extensive CP in existing HFPPs and advocate why current system needs to be redesigned including the plummeting pharmaceutical service costing in the way forward for Bangladesh.]]>Al-Amin, A.Q. and G.M. Alam,2011610611068Al-Amin, A.Q., G.M. Alam and A.J.B. Othman,20117773781Askew, I.,198920185202BBS.,20112011BBS.,20012001BBS,20062006BNHA,20102010BDHS,20072007Bhuiya, A. and C.A. Ribaux,1997Catino, J.,1999Data International,20002000DGHS,20092009GRC,20032003Sepehrdoust, H.,200932234Hanifi, S.M.A and A. Bhuiya,200119209214Hulme, D. and N. Siddique,19971997Islam, M.A., M.M. Islam and M.A. Khan,200143542Kabir, M.A., A.Q. Al-Amin, G.M. Alam and M.A. Matin,20117790796Kabir, M.A., K.L. Goh, M.M.H. Khan, A.Q. Al-Amin and M.N. Azam,20112011Zarra-Nezhad, M. and F. Hosainpour,20115117Nazrun, A.S., M. Norazlina, M. Norliza and S.I. Nirwana,20106561568O'Donnell, O., A. Karan, A. Somanathan, B.R. Pande and C.C. Garg et al.,20052005Rannan-Eliya, R.P., A. Somanathan, V. Sumathiratne and G.D. Dayaratne,20012001Rezaie, A.,20117550551Rifkin, S.B.,1990Gazi, A.H.R., U. Nowsher and H. Nazrul,20012001Abdelhak, S., J. Sulaiman and S. Mohd,20115213225Stone, L.,199235409417Uddin, M.J., A. Ashraf, A.K.M. Sirajuddin, Mahbub-ul-Alam and C. Tunon,20012001UNICEF,20082008UN,20112011UN,20092009World Bank,20012001World Bank,20102010WHO,19911991Yacob, M.R., A. Radam and S.B. Rawi,200931221