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(Birth Control) and Family Planning".
Contraception (birth control)
is a regimen of one or more actions, devices, or medications followed in
order to deliberately prevent or reduce the likelihood of a woman
becoming pregnant or giving birth. Therefore contraception is the
utilization of various and sundry surgical procedures, devices,
practices, agents, or drugs with the intention of preventing conception
or impregnation (pregnancy). Methods and intentions typically termed
birth control may be considered a pivotal ingredient to family
planning. Birth control is a controversial political and ethical
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Contraception (Birth Control) and Family Planning |
| Making contraceptives more expensive. |
| REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH MATTERS. 1994 May;(3):121-2. |
| In both developing and developed countries, the costs of family planning services are increasing and coming to bear |
| more on the individual, often with results contradictory to goals. In April, 1990 in Bangladesh, the prices of 5 brands |
| of contraceptives used in the social marketing project there were raised an average of 60%. Condom sales fell over |
| the next 12 months by 46%. The sale of oral contraceptives, which had been rising rapidly, dropped slightly. When |
| the price for a package of 4 condoms in Pakistan was raised from 1 to 2 rupees in 2 selected towns, 56% of |
| interviewed purchasers stopped buying them. In the rest of the country, where the price had been raised to 1.5 |
| rupees, 21% did so. More research needs to be done on contraceptive pricing and demand. Price differences |
| between Asian programs and sub-Saharan African programs appear to be arrived at somewhat capriciously. In |
| Indonesia, more users are paying for services. In 1987, 36% of users paid for services themselves; in 1991, 62% did |
| so. 90% of those using injectables, 68% of those using female sterilization, 66% of those using the pill, 65% of |
| those using condoms, 44% of those using the Norplant implant, and 39% of those using IUDs in 1991 paid for their |
| family planning method. 76% used government clinics; 22% used private sources (up from 12% in 1987). The |
| Indonesian Planned Parenthood Association has decided to become less dependent on external funding. In the |
| United Kingdom, a 1974 law which requires the National Health Service to provide free contraception may be |
| reversed. The new pills, which are to be bought at pharmacies, are low dose and more widely used; however, they |
| are also more expensive. The Family Planning Association and other organizations oppose this move, because it |
| contradicts governmental policy, especially the goal of reducing unwanted teenage pregnancies by 50% by the end of |
| the century. (PubHealth.info Document ID: CONT2T 4065-06) |
| PubHealth.info NOTE: The author(s) of this article titled, "Making contraceptives more expensive.", is(are) . The |
| source of this article is "REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH MATTERS. 1994 May;(3):121-2.". This article was published in |
| 1994 in English language(s). (PubHealth.info® Document ID: CONT2T 4065-06. All rights reserved with |
| PubHealth.info) PIN: 9065 |
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