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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
issue in many cultures and religions, and although it is generally less
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| Nonclinical approaches to family planning service provision: the Zairian |
| experience. [Approches non cliniques de prestation des services de |
| planification familiale: l'experience Zairoise.] |
| In: Approches de planification familiale en Afrique: bilan et perspectives, sous la |
| direction de Mohammed Bouzidi, Helmut Gorgen, Richard Turkson, Londres, |
| Juillet 1992. London, England, International Planned Parenthood Federation |
| Although Zaire has provided some support for family planning programs since 1972, the contraceptive prevalence |
| rate in the early 1990s was only 3% at the national level and 7% in Lubumbashi and Kinshasa. An operational |
| research program was undertaken in 1980 in the city of Matadi and the rural zone of Songololo in the province of |
| Lower Zaire to compare two service delivery modes. The rural and urban segments were divided into experimental |
| and control areas. Home visits and in rural areas, group meetings were provided in addition to contraceptive |
| supplies in the experimental zones. Control zones received contraceptive supplies only. Several different indices |
| were used to evaluate the project activities. The total couple months of protection provided were higher in the |
| experimental zones in both urban and rural segments. The total couple months of protection provided in 1984 |
| amounted to 20,126 in the urban experimental area, 3647 in the urban control area, 6077 in the rural experimental |
| area, and 2574 in the rural control area. 3591 urban and 3195 rural women were interviewed in baseline and follow- |
| up tests to evaluate changes in knowledge, attitudes, or contraceptive usage associated with the project. In the |
| baseline survey, 94% of women in all areas knew a traditional method and around 80% knew a modern method. At |
| the evaluation survey 21 months later, 100% of urban women and 90% of rural women knew of at least one modern |
| and traditional method. In the baseline survey, over 90% of respondents expressed approval of family planning, and |
| in the evaluation survey 100% did so. The proportion currently using a modern method at the baseline and evaluation |
| surveys, respectively, were 4 and 5% in the urban experimental zone, 19 and 16% in the urban control zone, 5 and |
| 14% in the rural experimental zone, and 2 and 10% in the rural control zone. In the urban segment, the ideal family |
| size declined from 6.1 to 5.6 in the experimental zone and from 6.2 to 5.6 in the control zone. The ideal family size |
| declined only slightly in the rural areas. Partly on the basis of the study results, the government of Zaire decided to |
| establish a community based program for contraceptive distribution. By the first quarter of 1990, the community |
| based distribution program had provided 4915 couple months of protection. The low cost of this program led the |
| government to propose extending it to over 200 health zones. The community based distribution program requires |
| community participation and community education. Trained nonmedical personnel provide family planning services. |
| Services and supplies become accessible to a larger proportion of couples needing them. Despite its advantages, |
| the program is subject to many of the problems of logistics, resources, and lack of support that hamper other family |
| planning approaches. (PubHealth.info Document ID: CONT3T 1592-06) |
| PubHealth.info NOTE: The author(s) of this article titled, "Nonclinical approaches to family planning service |
| provision: the Zairian experience. [Approches non cliniques de prestation des services de planification familiale: |
| l'experience Zairoise.]", is(are) Mangani N; Polondo KM. The source of this article is "In: Approches de planification |
| familiale en Afrique: bilan et perspectives, sous la direction de Mohammed Bouzidi, Helmut Gorgen, Richard |
| Turkson, Londres, Juillet 1992. London, England, International Planned Parenthood Federation [IPPF], 1992. :26- |
| 38.". This article was published in 1992 in French language(s). (PubHealth.info® Document ID: CONT3T 1592-06. |
| All rights reserved with PubHealth.info) PIN: 11592 |
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