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YEAR: 1994

CATEGORY: Contraception (Birth Control) and Family Planning

TITLE

Broadening contraceptive choice: lessons from Egypt.

AUTHORS

Hassan EO; Fathalla MF

SOURCE

[Unpublished] 1994. Presented at the Population Council Symposium on Family,

Gender, and Population Policy: International Debates and Middle Eastern

Realities, Cairo, Egypt, February 7-9, 1994. 24 p.

ABSTRACT

In 1966, Egypt implemented the National Family Planning Program, which focused on promotion and distribution of

oral contraceptives (OCs) for its first 10 years. It did not point out to family planning providers the importance of

counseling and education, resulting in considerable noncompliance. The program began distribution of IUDs in the

early 1970s. It did a good job of training providers on IUD insertion and counseling. The program was so successful

that the IUD is the most prevalent method in Egypt. Egyptians have had access to barrier methods, particularly

condoms and diaphragms, since the 1950s. Their use has fallen since OCs and the IUD were introduced, despite

media campaigns to increase their use. No introduction plan and no clear guidelines on the use of injectables, as

well as poor knowledge of the existing literature by service providers and policymakers, set the program back. There

was considerable debate on their safety, which received unfavorable publicity by the press and the public. These

actions resulted in the banning of injectable sales and use. About the same time, a clinical trial of injectables took

place in 8 governates of Egypt. Its results were used to develop guidelines. Now they can be sold and administered

in Egypt under strict guidelines. The family planning policy does not grant adults access to voluntary surgical

contraception or induced abortion. In 1988, the Egyptian Fertility Care Society began as introductory trial of Norplant,

which developed a careful and well designed introduction plan, using the lessons learned from the experience of the

introduction of injectables into Egypt. Egypt has learned that a significant factor of method acceptability is access to

other services on demand in instances of dissatisfaction with newly introduced methods. Other important identified

factors were cost services to clients and to the delivery system, and medical considerations. Counseling is the most

important factor, however. (PubHealth.info Document ID: CONT2T 3542-06)

PubHealth.info NOTE: The author(s) of this article titled, "Broadening contraceptive choice: lessons from Egypt.",

is(are) Hassan EO; Fathalla MF. The source of this article is "[Unpublished] 1994. Presented at the Population

Council Symposium on Family, Gender, and Population Policy: International Debates and Middle Eastern Realities,

Cairo, Egypt, February 7-9, 1994. 24 p.". This article was published in 1994 in English language(s). (PubHealth.info®

Document ID: CONT2T 3542-06. All rights reserved with PubHealth.info) PIN: 8542

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