CONTENTS
Chapters
- Thirty Years of Family Planning Programs
- Family Planning Demand
- Contraceptive Access
- Choice of Contraceptive Methods
- Client-Centered Quality
- Communication
- Well-Trained Providers
- Program Leadership and Strategic Management
- Research and Evaluation
- Political Commitment
- Financial Resources
HIGHLIGHTS
Population Reports is published by the Population Information Program, Center for Communication Programs, The
Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, 111 Market Place, Suite 310, Baltimore, Maryland
21202-4012, USA
Volume XXII, Number 2
August, 1994 |
Family Planning Demand
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Family planning programs succeed because they respond to people's needs. |
Most couples want to plan their families, when they have the
opportunity to do so. Women everywhere want to avoid unintended
pregnancies. Young and unmarried people want to avoid the
consequences of unprotected sexual relations, both pregnancy and
sexually transmitted diseases.
In most countries outside sub-Saharan Africa, a majority of married
women of reproductive age do not want to have more children. Among women
who want more children, in most countries surveyed in the past 10 years,
as many women want to wait at least two years before having a child as
want a child right away or are pregnant. Even in sub-Saharan Africa, where
most married women want large families, a majority of women want to wait
at least two years between births or to have no more children (164
, 155 ). (Throughout this report the term
"married" also includes couples "in union," that is, living together as
if formally married.)
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