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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
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| Natural family planning in developing countries [letter] |
| Lancet. 1992 Aug 1;340(8814):309. |
| A natural family planning (NFP) specialist expressed disagreement with a physician's conclusion in a letter that NFP |
| has limited use in developing countries which she based on work in the Philippines. Yet a 1983-88 use and cost |
| effectiveness study in Liberia showed that the pregnancy rate for those using NFP was 4.3% and cost US$40 per |
| woman. A similar study in Zambia revealed these figures to be 8.9% and US$30, respectively. The pregnancy rate |
| among 3003 illiterate and semiliterate women in India who underwent training in NFP was 2.04%. In an NFP study |
| conducted by the Ministry for the Family of former West Germany, the pregnancy rate stood at 2.3%. The Family |
| Planning Research Institute of Tianjin, China, conducted an effectiveness and acceptability of NFP study and it |
| found the life table continuation and pregnancy rates to be 9.7% whereas another study by the Institute revealed the |
| IUD termination rate to be 11.75%. A researcher compared the calendar method and oral contraceptive (OC) use in |
| the Philippines and found after 1 year a lower cumulative pregnancy rate for the OC group (28 vs. 36), but after 3 years |
| it was higher (23 vs. 18). Breast feeding, an NFP method, provides more contraceptive protection overall than any |
| artificial or natural family planning method. Maternal and child health programs in many developing countries have |
| integrated NFP in the form of breast feeding. Knowledge about fertility and the power breast feeding grants in |
| regulating fertility promotes women's development in society. NFP indeed is an effective family planning method |
| which both educated and uneducated couples can use effectively. (PubHealth.info Document ID: CONT3T 1566-06) |
| PubHealth.info NOTE: The author(s) of this article titled, "Natural family planning in developing countries [letter]", |
| is(are) Flynn AM. The source of this article is "Lancet. 1992 Aug 1;340(8814):309.". This article was published in |
| 1992 in English language(s). (PubHealth.info® Document ID: CONT3T 1566-06. All rights reserved with |
| PubHealth.info) PIN: 11566 |
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