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YEAR: 1973

CATEGORY: Contraception (Birth Control) and Family Planning

TITLE

Dr. Mahler: WHO must be the family planning co-ordinator.

AUTHORS

Rowley J; Mahler H

SOURCE

People 1(1): 10-14. October 1973.

ABSTRACT

Dr. Halfdan Mahler, Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO), in an interview with John Rowley

speaks of WHO's growing involvement with family planning and of his own attitude towards the challenge of

population growth. WHO has a division of family health which coordinates the organization's activities in family

planning. Regional offices are primarily concerned with family health and family planning. WHO is now assisting

some 55 countries with family health-family planning programs. The field of education and training is a priority

program area. WHO's identification with a very ambitious research program in human reproduction has had an

impact in most parts of the world. Dr. Mahler notes that it is everybody's social right to receive all the relevant

information in order to improve his or her own health. He considers it nonsensical to insist upon using only doctors

or other categories of professionally qualified personnel in family planning, if you can standardize and simplify the

technology to make it safe and applicable through either trained midwives or even people working part-time in health

and part-time in other kinds of jobs. Although previously there were more fundamental research programs being

carried out by WHO and funded through UNFPA than there were actual country programs, the trend now is

unmistakably moving rapidly towards the country level, involving WHO in large-scale programs. Mother and child

health services must be developed but not necessarily on the basis of the experience of wealthier countries. Mahler

thinks that WHO is the platform from which the People's Republic of China would be very prepared to share with the

rest of the world its experience. It is important to look at problems with the family planning services through the eyes

of the consumer. Resources must be mobilized to meet the challange to decrease population growth.

(PubHealth.info Document ID: CONT8T 555-06)

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