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YEAR: 1994

CATEGORY: Contraception (Birth Control) and Family Planning

TITLE

Women's experiences with family planning.

AUTHORS

Gupte M

SOURCE

HEALTH FOR THE MILLIONS. 1994 Jun;2(3):33-6.

ABSTRACT

India's family planning programs target rural women because they do not have political power. Interviews with those

in Maharashtra show their lack of choice and low access to resources and their need for safe contraception. In 2 rural

villages, for every dead child, a woman bears, on average, 2 more children. When a child dies, villagers first suspect

the mother of having performed voodoo or witchcraft. Other suspected women are deserted women, widows, and

menstruating women. Health and family planning services are not based on people's perceptions of body, anatomy,

illness, and cure. People are not informed about interventions, particularly contraception. Women are not comfortable

with contraceptives, and when physician ignore genuine symptoms and sequelae, it reinforces women's suspicions

about contraceptives. Sterilizations performed in camps result in more side effects than individually performed

sterilizations. During 1975-1977, women were kidnapped and sterilized under very unhygienic conditions. Common

complaints after sterilization are menstrual disturbances and lower back pain. Many private physicians treat these

complaints by performing hysterectomy. Women rarely are involved in the decision-making process determining

whether or not they should undergo sterilization. They are often given false promises, if they accept sterilization.

Indian women have little choice in contraceptives. The low biodegradability of condoms poses a disposal problem.

Health workers often dispose of IUDs, pills, and condoms which they claim have been accepted. Auxiliary nurse

midwives are pressured to meet family planning targets, so they harass women to accept contraception. Village

women do not trust them. Health workers often steal cases from each other. Many complain that minorities are

responsible for the population explosion, but the minority's family size is basically the same as that of the majority.

Low access to general health services and harassment to fulfill family planning quotas create an undesirable

climate to introduce injectables and implants into the family planning program. (PubHealth.info Document ID:

CONT2T 4506-06)

PubHealth.info NOTE: The author(s) of this article titled, "Women's experiences with family planning.", is(are) Gupte

M. The source of this article is "HEALTH FOR THE MILLIONS. 1994 Jun;2(3):33-6.". This article was published in

1994 in English language(s). (PubHealth.info® Document ID: CONT2T 4506-06. All rights reserved with

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