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YEAR: 1975

CATEGORY: Contraception (Birth Control) and Family Planning

TITLE

Family planning and mobile under-fives clinics.

AUTHORS

MUMFORD N; COLES RW

SOURCE

Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 78(12): 267-268. December 1975.

ABSTRACT

In the Eastern province of Sierra Leone, a mobile baby welfare clinic has been operating since 1959. It serves

village communities in an area of 200 square miles. The objective of the service is preventive medicine, and family

planning is emphasized in the instruction given to mothers who attend these clinics. However, in this society where

the mortality of the under 5 years of age children approaches 40% and where children are highly valued as a source

of unpaid labor and as an insurance against parental ill health and old age, the desire for family planning is

negligible. However, education about family planning in the clinics and on the wards of the Nixon Memorial

Methodist Hospital in the area has resulted in a steady increase in the number of families using these facilities in

the past 3 years. Early in 1973 a nurse experienced in family planning education in the United Kingdom helped to

carry out an intensive education campaign in the mobile baby welfare clinics. This was followed up with the

opportunity over a 3 week period for mothers attending the clinics to have an IUD inserted. 37 mothers accepted this

offer. The base hospital offers IUD insertions free of charge also, but there is a registration and consultation fee as

well as the expense of travel. In the 1st 6 months of 1973, 25 mothers requested insertion of an IUD at the base

hospital, but a 1 year followup revealed that only 17 continued with this form of contraception. Both groups of

mothers who accepted the IUD was composed mainly of grand multipara whose interest in family planning was

family limitation rather than family spacing. Discomfort and excessive bleeding were the main reasons for requests

for IUD removal. The insertion of IUDs has proven to be practical as part of the services of a mobile baby welfare

clinic. However, the Mende people have not yet recognized and accepted that family spacing for younger mothers is

also beneficial. (PubHealth.info Document ID: CONT7T 2561-06)

PubHealth.info NOTE: The author(s) of this article titled, "Family planning and mobile under-fives clinics.", is(are)

MUMFORD N; COLES RW. The source of this article is "Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 78(12): 267-268.

December 1975.". This article was published in 1975 in English language(s). (PubHealth.info® Document ID:

CONT7T 2561-06. All rights reserved with PubHealth.info) PIN: 32561

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