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topics under category "Contraception
(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
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Contraception (Birth Control) and Family Planning |
| Laplante A; Samake F; Brown GF |
| Ottawa, International Development Research Centre, 1975. (IDRC-045e) 12 p |
| From January 1972 to January 1974, a pilot family planning program for Mali reported 2,000 acceptors among 10,000 |
| consultation visits to the central clinic in urban Bamako, a figure representing 5% of the city's childbearing |
| population. 71% of the acceptors chose the IUD, 17% chose the pill, and the remaining 6% preferred other |
| contraceptive methods. A 1960-1961 survey of Bamako's 250,000 residents estimated the proportion of |
| monogamous women at 54% and wives of polygamous unions at 46%; proportions among clinic population were |
| 62% and 38% respectively. Proportion of widows, divorcees and single women (34%) and the literacy rate were |
| higher among the clinic clientele. Fertility research indicates that a long tradition of birth spacing, either by |
| prolonged lactation or sexual abstinence, greatly influenced acceptance of family planning in Mali. 68% of the |
| women attending the clinic were motivated by a desire to space their children; only 22% wished to prevent all future |
| births, and 6% wanted to postpone the first birth. Family planning programing in Mali was provoked by the immediate |
| needs of urban dwellers rather than by the demands of long range demographic goals. In 1973, the Ministry of Health |
| decided to expand family planning services as part of an overall program for improved health and social welfare. |
| Maternal and child health clinics will be reorganized as family health centers and 23 new clinics are expected to be |
| operating within agricultural and industrial centers by December 1977. (PubHealth.info Document ID: CONT7T 2591- |
| PubHealth.info NOTE: The author(s) of this article titled, "Family planning in Mali.", is(are) Laplante A; Samake F; |
| Brown GF. The source of this article is "Ottawa, International Development Research Centre, 1975. (IDRC-045e) 12 |
| p". This article was published in 1975 in English language(s). (PubHealth.info® Document ID: CONT7T 2591-06. All |
| rights reserved with PubHealth.info) PIN: 32591 |
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