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YEAR: 1994

CATEGORY: Contraception (Birth Control) and Family Planning

TITLE

You are in bed with the Vatican] On family planning during 20 years of work

in developing countries. ["You are in bed with the Vatican]" Om

barnbegransning i bistandsarbetet under tjugo ar.]

AUTHORS

Bergstrom S

SOURCE

LAKARTIDNINGEN. 1994 Nov 23;91(47):4382, 4385.

ABSTRACT

The book entitled More People was published in Sweden before the first population conference was held in

Bucharest in 1974. It outlined a critical, health-oriented perspective for fertility control and argued for more

fundamental, poverty-related social initiatives to control the birth rate. The book was criticized as having a negative

attitude to family planning (FP) and dismissed by many as an expression of an unholy alliance with reactionary

Catholic circles. Right after the Bucharest conference, a high-ranking official of the Indian FP service was

interviewed and stated that sex determination could be the solution to India's population problem. The book received

a new appraisal some years later, when mass forced sterilizations took place in India, but instead of a breakthrough

in population control, the government collapsed. Another book published in 1994 before the Cairo conference dealt

with population policies in light of health, empowerment, and rights, drawing on demography, medicine, economics,

ethics, anthropology, and sociology. It reviewed the 20 years that elapsed since the Bucharest conference, including

the 1984 Mexico City conference when the US chose to give low priority to FP. The Nairobi Safe Motherhood

Conference and the UN Decade of Women also featured as memorable events. In the early 1990s the alarm over the

impending environmental catastrophe focused attention on population, environment, and development. The World

Bank's structural readjustment programs have worsened the status of women's education and health, and the

international feminist movement emphasized these issues right before the Cairo conference. Another book published

in 1975 referred to the negative effect on women's health of development policies favoring macroeconomic

stabilization, while in most northern countries massive overconsumption occurred. Population stabilization would

require poverty alleviation, universal access to health care and education, and equality of the sexes. (PubHealth.info

Document ID: CONT2T 4519-06)

PubHealth.info NOTE: The author(s) of this article titled, "You are in bed with the Vatican] On family planning during

20 years of work in developing countries. ["You are in bed with the Vatican]" Om barnbegransning i bistandsarbetet

under tjugo ar.]", is(are) Bergstrom S. The source of this article is "LAKARTIDNINGEN. 1994 Nov 23;91(47):4382,

4385.". This article was published in 1994 in Swedish language(s). (PubHealth.info® Document ID: CONT2T 4519-

06. All rights reserved with PubHealth.info) PIN: 9519

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