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YEAR: 1991

CATEGORY: Contraception (Birth Control) and Family Planning

TITLE

Access to affordable contraception. 1991 report on world progress towards

population stabilization.

AUTHORS

Camp SL

SOURCE

Washington, D.C., Population Crisis Committee, 1991. [2] p.

ABSTRACT

The number of couples in the world who want access to modern contraception is expected to increase by over 60%

in the next decade, from 505 million to close to 795 million. Whether this need is met is, in large part, dependent

on the availability in developing countries of free or low-cost contraception. Of concern is a trend to shift family

planning service delivery to the private sector, or to make government-sponsored family planning programs self-

sustainable by charging acceptors a modest fee, at a time when dramatic increases in contraceptive prevalence are

needed to Latin America, Asia, and Africa to reduce high rates of population growth. The main chart presented in

this document shows the percentage of couples in each country in the world with ready access to moderately priced

contraception (condoms, pills, IUD, or injectables, and sexual sterilization) and abortion through public and private

sources. If known, the percentage of couples with access to free or heavily subsidized public sector services is also

depicted. A second chart sets forth the costs in each country of condoms, oral contraceptives, IUDs, and female

sterilization in the private sector as well as the cost of that method of fertility control as a percentage of the gross

national product (GNP) per capita. In a small number of developing countries, public sector subsidization of private

providers has reduced the relative cost of contraception to levels found in Western countries (i.e., under 1% of

average per capita GNP). However, in the vast majority of Third World countries--especially those in Africa, where

the need for contraception is greatest--fewer than 25% of couples have access to affordable public-sector services,

and contraceptives obtained through the private sector can exceed 50% of average per capita GNP. (PubHealth.info

Document ID: CONT3T 2083-06)

PubHealth.info NOTE: The author(s) of this article titled, "Access to affordable contraception. 1991 report on world

progress towards population stabilization.", is(are) Camp SL. The source of this article is "Washington, D.C.,

Population Crisis Committee, 1991. [2] p.". This article was published in 1991 in English language(s).

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