Family Planning in Zimbabwe
GENERAL
A recent article in the scidev.net urged for health workers to fit contraception to local needs. Giving women the option of using contraception tailored to their individual circumstances is vital to increasing birth control in developing countries......According to the World Health Organization, more than 225 million women in developing countries want to avoid pregnancy but are not using a safe and effective family planning method.
Extracted from
http://www.scidev.net/global/medicine/news/poorer-nations-antibiotic-resistance.html?utm_medium=email&utm_source=SciDevNewsletter&utm_campaign=international%20SciDev.Net%20update%3A%205%20October%202015#sthash.FgBErq39.dpuf
ZIMBABWE AND FAMILY PLANNING
Ignatius Banda writes that Zimbabwe is facing a family planning dilemma. The issue of contraceptive use remains controversial and divisive in this country of 13.72 million people.Parents and educators are agreed on one thing: that levels of sexual activity among high-school students are on the rise. What they do not agree on, however, is how to deal with the corresponding inrcrease in teenage pregnancies.
While Zimbabwe has made huge gains in some areas of
reproductive health, including stemming new HIV infections, according to the
Health Ministry, various United Nations agencies have raised concerns about the
growing number of adolescent pregnancies, which experts say point to a low use
of prophylactics and a dearth of other family planning methods.
extracted from ...http://www.ipsnews.net/2014/10/zimbabwes-family-planning-dilemma/
SOME OF THE ISSUES AROUND FAMILY PLANNING
Zimbabwe’s Registrar General recently advised women to avoid using contraceptives, linking their use to a higher incidence of cancer. In remarks at an Africa Day celebration in Harare on 25 May, Zimbabwe’s Registrar General, Tobaiwa Mudede, advised the country’s women to stop using contraceptives, the state-owned Herald newspaper reported two days later.
According to a range of medical experts consulted by Africa Check, there can be a link between the use of oral and injectable hormonal contraceptives and particular types of cancer – increasing the risk in some cases and lowering it in others.
The WHO’s cancer research agency, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), has classified combined oral contraceptives as Group One carcinogens, meaning there is sufficient evidence to support claims that combined oestrogen-progestogen oral contraceptives have cancer-causing properties, Dr Elvira Singh, a public health medicine specialist, told Africa Check
Urban’s 2012 study found the risk of breast cancer developing in women who used either oral or injectable contraceptives in the preceding 10 years increased by sixty percent.Margaret Urban, a cancer epidemiologist and the lead researcher on a 2012 study of injectable and oral contraceptive use and cancers of the breast, cervix, ovaries and endometrium in black South African women, told Africa Check other factors affect the risk too.
Barrier methods of contraception also lower the risk of certain types of cancer, said Urban: “If you use condoms, whether it’s female or male condoms, they actually protect the [individual from] cancer because they protect against the human papillomavirus as well as against HIV which is a risk factor for Kaposi sarcoma, some lymphomas, some skin cancers and cervical cancer.”
for more read....
https://africacheck.org/reports/zimbabwe-registrar-generals-claim-that-contraception-causes-cancer-is-misleading/
BOOKS
Our library has a good collection of books on family planning, new some much lovingly used. feel free to come and give us a visit. Below are a few of our popular and well used books1. The esentials of contraceptive technology: a handbook for clinical staff by R A Hatcher and others.
2. Family planning: a global handbook for providers/ evidence-based guidance developed through worldwide collaboration by World Health Organisation/ USAID/ Johns Hopkins
3. Studies in family planning Joural
4. Contraception: your questions answered by J Guillebaud and A Macgregor
5.Managing contraceptive pill patients by R Dickey
Giving
women the option of using contraception tailored to their individual
circumstances is vital to increasing birth control in developing
countries, an event heard last week.
According to the World Health Organization, more than 225 million women in developing countries want to avoid pregnancy but are not using a safe and effective family planning method.
Research presented at the event, which was organised by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), showed that training health workers to advise on family planning and offering contraception that matches local needs broadens the reach of pregnancy prevention efforts.
For example, USAID’s Evidence to Action programme in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Nigeria and Tanzania spread the word about the Standard Days Method, a simple string of beads with a dark colour to differentiate ‘safe days’ for sex or a light colour to represent when a woman is most likely to get pregnant.
The four nations in the programme are “essential countries” for reducing maternal and child deaths, and provide lessons that could be applied elsewhere, explained Ann Hirschey, who runs USAID’s Service Delivery Improvement Division.
In Shinyanga, a heavily Catholic region in the north of Tanzania, only 12.5 per cent of women had been using modern contraceptives, such as condoms, hormonal and non-hormonal methods and contraceptive creams, the event heard. - See more at: http://www.scidev.net/global/health/news/fit-contraception-local-health-workers-women.html?utm_medium=email&utm_source=SciDevNewsletter&utm_campaign=international%20SciDev.Net%20update%3A%2019%20October%202015#sthash.TZBSmGr4.dpuf
According to the World Health Organization, more than 225 million women in developing countries want to avoid pregnancy but are not using a safe and effective family planning method.
Research presented at the event, which was organised by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), showed that training health workers to advise on family planning and offering contraception that matches local needs broadens the reach of pregnancy prevention efforts.
For example, USAID’s Evidence to Action programme in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Nigeria and Tanzania spread the word about the Standard Days Method, a simple string of beads with a dark colour to differentiate ‘safe days’ for sex or a light colour to represent when a woman is most likely to get pregnant.
The four nations in the programme are “essential countries” for reducing maternal and child deaths, and provide lessons that could be applied elsewhere, explained Ann Hirschey, who runs USAID’s Service Delivery Improvement Division.
In Shinyanga, a heavily Catholic region in the north of Tanzania, only 12.5 per cent of women had been using modern contraceptives, such as condoms, hormonal and non-hormonal methods and contraceptive creams, the event heard. - See more at: http://www.scidev.net/global/health/news/fit-contraception-local-health-workers-women.html?utm_medium=email&utm_source=SciDevNewsletter&utm_campaign=international%20SciDev.Net%20update%3A%2019%20October%202015#sthash.TZBSmGr4.dpuf
Giving
women the option of using contraception tailored to their individual
circumstances is vital to increasing birth control in developing
countries, an event heard last week.
According to the World Health Organization, more than 225 million women in developing countries want to avoid pregnancy but are not using a safe and effective family planning method.
Research presented at the event, which was organised by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), showed that training health workers to advise on family planning and offering contraception that matches local needs broadens the reach of pregnancy prevention efforts.
For example, USAID’s Evidence to Action programme in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Nigeria and Tanzania spread the word about the Standard Days Method, a simple string of beads with a dark colour to differentiate ‘safe days’ for sex or a light colour to represent when a woman is most likely to get pregnant.
The four nations in the programme are “essential countries” for reducing maternal and child deaths, and provide lessons that could be applied elsewhere, explained Ann Hirschey, who runs USAID’s Service Delivery Improvement Division.
In Shinyanga, a heavily Catholic region in the north of Tanzania, only 12.5 per cent of women had been using modern contraceptives, such as condoms, hormonal and non-hormonal methods and contraceptive creams, the event heard. - See more at: http://www.scidev.net/global/health/news/fit-contraception-local-health-workers-women.html?utm_medium=email&utm_source=SciDevNewsletter&utm_campaign=international%20SciDev.Net%20update%3A%2019%20October%202015#sthash.TZBSmGr4.dpuf
According to the World Health Organization, more than 225 million women in developing countries want to avoid pregnancy but are not using a safe and effective family planning method.
Research presented at the event, which was organised by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), showed that training health workers to advise on family planning and offering contraception that matches local needs broadens the reach of pregnancy prevention efforts.
For example, USAID’s Evidence to Action programme in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Nigeria and Tanzania spread the word about the Standard Days Method, a simple string of beads with a dark colour to differentiate ‘safe days’ for sex or a light colour to represent when a woman is most likely to get pregnant.
The four nations in the programme are “essential countries” for reducing maternal and child deaths, and provide lessons that could be applied elsewhere, explained Ann Hirschey, who runs USAID’s Service Delivery Improvement Division.
In Shinyanga, a heavily Catholic region in the north of Tanzania, only 12.5 per cent of women had been using modern contraceptives, such as condoms, hormonal and non-hormonal methods and contraceptive creams, the event heard. - See more at: http://www.scidev.net/global/health/news/fit-contraception-local-health-workers-women.html?utm_medium=email&utm_source=SciDevNewsletter&utm_campaign=international%20SciDev.Net%20update%3A%2019%20October%202015#sthash.TZBSmGr4.dpuf
Giving
women the option of using contraception tailored to their individual
circumstances is vital to increasing birth control in developing
countries, an event heard last week.
According to the World Health Organization, more than 225 million women in developing countries want to avoid pregnancy but are not using a safe and effective family planning method.
Research presented at the event, which was organised by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), showed that training health workers to advise on family planning and offering contraception that matches local needs broadens the reach of pregnancy prevention efforts.
For example, USAID’s Evidence to Action programme in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Nigeria and Tanzania spread the word about the Standard Days Method, a simple string of beads with a dark colour to differentiate ‘safe days’ for sex or a light colour to represent when a woman is most likely to get pregnant.
The four nations in the programme are “essential countries” for reducing maternal and child deaths, and provide lessons that could be applied elsewhere, explained Ann Hirschey, who runs USAID’s Service Delivery Improvement Division.
In Shinyanga, a heavily Catholic region in the north of Tanzania, only 12.5 per cent of women had been using modern contraceptives, such as condoms, hormonal and non-hormonal methods and contraceptive creams, the event heard. - See more at: http://www.scidev.net/global/health/news/fit-contraception-local-health-workers-women.html?utm_medium=email&utm_source=SciDevNewsletter&utm_campaign=international%20SciDev.Net%20update%3A%2019%20October%202015#sthash.TZBSmGr4.dpuf
According to the World Health Organization, more than 225 million women in developing countries want to avoid pregnancy but are not using a safe and effective family planning method.
Research presented at the event, which was organised by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), showed that training health workers to advise on family planning and offering contraception that matches local needs broadens the reach of pregnancy prevention efforts.
For example, USAID’s Evidence to Action programme in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Nigeria and Tanzania spread the word about the Standard Days Method, a simple string of beads with a dark colour to differentiate ‘safe days’ for sex or a light colour to represent when a woman is most likely to get pregnant.
The four nations in the programme are “essential countries” for reducing maternal and child deaths, and provide lessons that could be applied elsewhere, explained Ann Hirschey, who runs USAID’s Service Delivery Improvement Division.
In Shinyanga, a heavily Catholic region in the north of Tanzania, only 12.5 per cent of women had been using modern contraceptives, such as condoms, hormonal and non-hormonal methods and contraceptive creams, the event heard. - See more at: http://www.scidev.net/global/health/news/fit-contraception-local-health-workers-women.html?utm_medium=email&utm_source=SciDevNewsletter&utm_campaign=international%20SciDev.Net%20update%3A%2019%20October%202015#sthash.TZBSmGr4.dpuf
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