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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
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Contraception (Birth Control) and Family Planning |
| A family planning programme for Nigeria. |
| West Africa Medical Journal 17: 227-229. December 1968. |
| The family planning program in Nigeria has been based on its contribution to the health of the family and the fact that |
| its means are medical. Organized family planning began in Nigeria in 1958, as a single clinic. 5 years later, a |
| Family Planning Council, a voluntary organization, was organized. In 1964 the Department of Community Health in |
| the College of Medicine conducted a study in Lagos, which found in a random sample of 60,000 people that 14% had |
| ever used family planning techniques, 75% approved of the idea of family planning, and about 1/3 had never heard |
| of family planning. The major problem in program planning in Nigeria is the development of service facilities |
| available to and known to all women at risk. Clinics rely routinely on the IUD and only doctors insert them, causing a |
| high cost per insertion. A Nationwide program will be possible only through the training of large numbers of nurses, |
| midwives, and paramedical auxiliaries. Under the leadership and financing of the Family Planning Council, and with |
| the technical assistance of the medical schools, service programs will be established or expanded in the large |
| cities with most of the attention paid to development around maternity hospitals. When the stage is reached where |
| rural services are available, chief reliance must inevitably be on midwives and nurses. Foundations assist through |
| financial aid and fellowships to doctors and nurses for training in family planning techniques and organization. To |
| provide service for all the potential users of contraceptives, would require a service corps able to handle 3,000,000 |
| patients, while at present 3000 are being provided with service. (PubHealth.info Document ID: CONT9T 1039-06) |
| PubHealth.info NOTE: The author(s) of this article titled, "A family planning programme for Nigeria.", is(are) Wright |
| RD. The source of this article is "West Africa Medical Journal 17: 227-229. December 1968.". This article was |
| published in 1968 in English language(s). (PubHealth.info® Document ID: CONT9T 1039-06. All rights reserved with |
| PubHealth.info) PIN: 41039 |
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