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This is an encouraging article! It seemed like your typical family planning conference: it was sponsored by the US Agency for International Development (USAID) and the World Health Organization’s Department of Reproductive Health and Research. It had the typical title: “Is access enough? Understanding and addressing unmet need for Family Planning.” It even seemed to have the usual group of presenters ready with their cherry-picked findings to lobby for even more money to be spent on the contraception and sterilization of African women. But, this time, in the small town of Nanyuki, Kenya, which sits right on the Equator, something different happened. Three researchers—one from Geneva, one from Paris, and one from Burkina Faso—presented a paper which called into question several of the basic premises of the population controllers. They found that natural family planning methods not only work well, but that they are successfully used by large numbers of women. They also found that, because previous surveys completely ignored NFP, the so-called “unmet need for contraception” has been grossly overestimated. pop.org/content/african-women-turning-natural-family-planning-turning-down-abortifacient-contraceptives-surv
Posted on: Tue, 29 Jul 2014 18:00:01 +0000

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