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Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2009 Oct 27; 364(1532): 3093–3099.

Making family planning accessible in resource-poor settings

Abstract

Information technology is imperative to make family planning more than accessible in low resource settings. The poorest couples have the highest fertility, the lowest contraceptive use and the highest unmet need for contraception. It is also in the low resources settings where maternal and child mortality is the highest. Family planning can contribute to improvements in maternal and child wellness, peculiarly in low resources settings where overall admission to health services is limited. Iv critical steps should be taken to increase access to family planning in resource-poor settings: (i) increase cognition well-nigh the safety of family planning methods; (2) ensure contraception is genuinely affordable to the poorest families; (iii) ensure supply of contraceptives by making family unit planning a permanent line item in healthcare organization'due south budgets and (4) take immediate activeness to remove barriers hindering access to family planning methods. In Africa, there are more women with an unmet need for family planning than women currently using modern methods. Making family planning accessible in low resource settings will assist subtract the existing inequities in achieving desired fertility at individual and state level. In addition, information technology could help slow population growth within a human rights framework. The United Nations Population Division projections for the year 2050 vary betwixt a loftier of ten.6 and a low of seven.4 billion. Given that most of the growth is expected to come up from today'due south resource-poor settings, easy access to family planning could brand a difference of billions in the globe in 2050.

Keywords: family planning, fertility regulation, resource-poor settings, unmet need, access to services, contraception

1. Introduction

Family planning programmes in resource-poor settings are usually fragile, show signs of poor functioning and are both dependent on international funding and constrained by existing policies or lack thereof. Notwithstanding, it is exactly in those settings where family planning programmes are about needed if countries aim to reduce inequalities in health, reduce maternal and kid mortality rates, alleviate poverty and foster economic development.

Voluntary family unit planning is an effective way of controlling fertility within a human rights framework past giving couples the ability to accept their desired family size (Prata 2007). In the 1993 Earth Development Study entitled 'Investing in Health', the Earth Depository financial institution considered family planning a highly cost-effective public health intervention (Earth Banking company 1993). Equally Cleland et al. (2006) write, 'The promotion and availability of family planning in resource-poor settings represents one of the almost significant public wellness success stories of the past century… . Family planning is unique among health interventions in the breadth of its benefits—family unit planning decreases maternal and kid mortality, empowers women, reduces poverty and it lessens stress on the natural and political environment'.

In many resource-poor settings, the growing unmet need for contraception is phenomenal. Couples who wish to have fewer children are unable to make up one's mind the size of their families as family planning funding continues to become scarce and existing programmes and services neglect to come across the concerns and desires of their users. It is important to emphasize not telling women how many children they should take, but underscore that they have a correct and the freedom to choose how to command their own fertility. To control fertility effectively, women and couples need to accept access to right information about contraceptive methods and be able to afford the method of their pick. The end consequence at the family level will positively impact the wellness of women and children, easing force per unit area on family resources and increasing a family unit's chances to escape the trap of poverty (Cleland et al. 2006).

The poorest economic quintiles in resource-poor settings are often more probable to plough to the private sector than to government services, which often neglect to attain those in greatest need (Prata et al. 2005). In this paper, I am including not only the work of public, private and religion-based wellness facilities simply social marketing, output-based assist and franchized service providers who meet the need for family planning information and services.

The report by the UK'due south All Political party Parliamentary Group on Population, Evolution and Reproductive Health entitled Return of the population growth factor: its bear on upon the millennium development goals shows clearly that poverty and socioeconomic disparities are closely linked to unchecked population growth. The poorest of the poor tend to accept non only the lowest contraceptive prevalence, but the highest total fertility rate (TFR) and the highest unmet demand for family planning (Prata 2006, 2007). Population growth too remains a pregnant issue with respect to increasing levels of education or improving the income gap. The 'Return of the population growth factor' report analysis shows that, as a upshot of rapid population growth, the developing earth must train two 1000000 additional teachers every yr to continue didactics levels at where they are today—with no level of improvement. With increasing population levels, notwithstanding, fifty-fifty this will not be enough.

A large part of the brunt of illness linked to maternal wellness which poor countries are facing today is also reflective of undesired fertility. It is unjust that women are dying just because of unmet need for contraception and yet this remains to be the case. Cleland et al. (2006) judge that promotion of family planning in high fertility countries has the potential to avert 32 per cent of all maternal deaths and well-nigh 10 per cent of childhood deaths. It is estimated that 25 per cent of HIV-positive women have an unmet need for family planning. Unfortunately, even though contraception is also more than cost-effective than Niverapine to prevent female parent-to-kid-transmission (Reynolds et al. 2006), family planning is oftentimes not an integral office of HIV prevention programmes.

Health disparities are increasing over time and this in turn poses a significant problem for apace growing populations living on extremely deficient resources (Ezeh et al. 2009). Low resources settings are already suffering from water scarcity, food shortages and inadequate sanitation. Furthermore, internal disharmonize and/or civil unrest that affects poor countries has often also been a direct result of agony over the need for resources such as abundant land that continue to remain at crunch levels (Thayer 2009). Until family planning is fabricated accessible to address the large burden of unmet need for contraception, countries will be unable to provide their citizens with fifty-fifty their basic homo needs.

In this paper, I suggest four disquisitional steps that can assistance increase access to family planning in low resource settings, especially those in sub-Saharan Africa. In support of the proposed solutions, I nowadays show on current status and recent trends in family planning in poor countries. I argue that family unit planning services are greatly needed and hash out the health and socioeconomic benefits at private, family and community levels.

two. Greater accessibility to family planning

To address the result of high fertility in low resource settings, it is imperative that family planning is made accessible to all. Given the current socioeconomic and demographic indicators in poor countries and the slow progress in the last decade, four disquisitional steps should be undertaken: (i) increment knowledge about the safety of family planning methods; (2) ensure contraception is genuinely affordable to the poorest families; (iii) ensure supply of contraceptives by making family planning a permanent line item in healthcare system's budgets and (iv) take immediate action to remove barriers hindering access to family planning methods.

(a) Use of family planning methods

Sub-Saharan Africa has the everyman family planning use in the developing world. The employ of modern methods past married women is higher in Latin America (63%), followed by Asia (48% excluding China) and sub-Saharan Africa (18%). The electric current contraceptive level in sub-Saharan Africa represents a small increase from 13 per cent registered around the late 1990s to the beginning of 2000 (Population Reference Agency 2002; Population Reference Bureau 2008). Co-ordinate to recent bachelor data from 31 countries with Demographic and Wellness Surveys (DHS), on boilerplate 30 per cent of women in sub-Saharan Africa have an unmet need for modern family planning methods. Nineteen of the 31 countries take a reported unmet need for family unit planning up to 49 per cent. On boilerplate, sub-Saharan Africa has non seen a reduction in the unmet need for family planning in the last decade. As a effect, there are more women (25 million) with an unmet need for family planning than women currently using modern methods (18 one thousand thousand) (Westoff 2006; Population Reference Agency 2008).

Directly associated to this low family planning utilize and loftier unmet demand is very high fertility and rapid population growth. In sub-Saharan Africa, the TFR is 5.5, considerably higher than the TFR of Latin America (2.5) and Asia (2.iv excluding China). 15 of the 31 sub-Saharan African countries with a contempo DHS have TFRs that exceed half dozen.0 (Population Reference Bureau 2007). This level is essentially unchanged from the late 1990s, when the region'southward overall TFR was 5.vi (Population Reference Bureau 2002). It is estimated that in 2008 sub-Saharan Africa's population was 828 one thousand thousand and is expected to increase by nearly a billion people (1761 million) by 2050 (United Nations Population Sectionalization 2007).

The employ of family unit planning methods is inherently related to right knowledge and access to bachelor methods. Right noesis should include how the diverse methods work, family unit planning methods' safety and side furnishings, and accost the issues of misinformation.

Wrong knowledge tin be addressed in the information instruction and communication campaigns by using uncomplicated, single messages that empower women and families such equally 'Family Planning is Safe' or 'Family Planning is Prophylactic and Works'. A report of eight developing countries showed that 50–lxx per cent of women thought the use of oral contraceptive pills was a considerable wellness risk, even though in a low-resource setting, having a baby can be up to thou times as dangerous equally taking oral contraceptives (Grubb 1987). Family planning programmes should take master responsibility for disseminating accurate data and correcting misinformation. A couple's credence of modernistic methods is all also often limited because they practise not know how modern methods piece of work or they think methods have an adverse influence on their ability to conceive later.

(b) Family planning must be affordable

The need for making family planning more than accessible is also compelling from the standpoint of alleviating the burden of poverty. Vii of every x sub-Saharan Africans alive in poverty (less than US$2 per solar day), with four of every 10 sub-Saharan Africans living in extreme poverty (less than U.s.$1 per day) (Chen & Ravallion 2007). Examples of sub-Saharan African countries where the vast majority of people live in poverty include Uganda with 97 per cent, Nigeria with 91 per cent and Zambia with 87 per cent (World Bank 2005).

Poverty is likely to increase markedly in accented terms in the next few decades in sub-Saharan Africa, because past 2050 the population of almost every country in Western, Eastern, and Heart Africa volition be double the 2000 level (Un Population Division 2008). For case, Uganda's population will have more than than tripled, from 25 million (32 1000000 in 2008) to 93 one thousand thousand in 2050, and Nigeria'southward population will have grown by an additional 164 million people to 289 million. Thus, if poverty rates do non decline, in 2050 over 350 meg people—more than the entire population of the USA today—will exist living in poverty in these two countries lonely, with more than than 280 million of them living in extreme poverty. This compares to 135 one thousand thousand living in poverty betwixt 1999 and 2003 in these 2 countries.

The implications of such high levels of population growth, coupled with the fifty-fifty more rapid urban growth, are stark. 3 of every four urban dwellers in sub-Saharan Africa today already live in slum conditions. Hundreds of millions more than people—more than than 1.25 billion people overall—will exist living in poverty in 2050, and sub-Saharan African countries volition thus accept even greater difficulty elevating their level of socioeconomic evolution and maintaining their often-tenuous political stability.

Given the electric current and ascension levels of people living in poverty, it cannot be expected that consumers volition pay the increasing costs of family unit planning services. The poor are very sensitive to price changes and the results could exist a turn down in contraceptive use (Prata et al. 2001). Sub-Saharan Africa poses the greatest threat with 77 per cent of its population in 2002 unable to pay for the price of the commodities (Prata 2006) (table 1).

Tabular array 1.

Fertility indicators for selected sub-Saharan African countries. Corresponding national DHS final reports. CPR data refer to women aged 15–nineteen who are currently married or in union and are currently using a modern contraceptive method. FP, family planning.

country	TFR	wanted fertility rate	met need for FP (mod method CPR)	unmet need for FP
Republic of ghana
2003	4.4	3.vii	18.7	34
1998	4.6	3.7	13.3	24.three
1993	5.v	four.2	x.1	38.6
1988	6.iv	5.iii	five.2
Kenya
2003	4.nine	3.6	31.v	24.5
1998	four.7	3.5	31.5	23.9
1993	5.4	3.four	27.3	36.4
1989	half dozen.7	4.four	17.9
Republic of malaŵi
2004	6	4.9	28.1	27.vi
2000	6.3	5.two	26.1	29.seven
1992	half dozen.7	v.7	seven.four	36.3
Nigeria
2003	five.7	5.iii	viii.2	16.9
1999	5.2	4.8	viii.6	17.5
1990	6	v.8	three.five	20.8
Senegal
2005	5.three	4.five	x.3	31.6
1997	five.seven	iv.6	viii.1	32.6
1992–1993	6	5.1	iv.8	27.9
Tanzania
2004	v.7	4.nine	20	21.8
1999	5.half dozen	4.8	sixteen.nine	21.8
1996	5.viii	5.1	thirteen.3	23.ix
1992	six.two	5.vi	6.6	30.1
Uganda
2006	6.7	5.1	17.9	40.half-dozen
2000–2001	6.9	5.3	eighteen.2	34.6
1995	half-dozen.9	5.half dozen	7.8	29
1988	7.5	6.4	2.five	53.7

The current costs of family planning commodities should be examined critically and prices should exist adapted making affordability and necessary subsidies a primary concern. The poorest quintile of the population suffers from the highest unmet need for family planning and shoulders the largest burden of maternal and child mortality. To reduce rise inequalities that place a high burden on society as a whole, family unit planning methods must be supplied to the poor at a cost they can afford. The overall, long-term burden for any state is ultimately college if a large proportion of the poor cannot beget to determine the size of their own families. Therefore, it is important to ensure that contraception is genuinely affordable to the poorest families.

(c) Importance of a steady supply of contraceptives

Trends in modern contraceptive use in resource-poor settings seem to be associated with the level of international customs'south support for family unit planning and local resources, thus affecting the step of fertility decline in such settings. For instance, in sub-Saharan Africa, many countries experienced substantial gains in contraceptive prevalence rates (CPR) in the 1980s and 1990s, followed by a diminished or stalled progress in the 2000s (figure one). In the 1990s, mod method utilise almost quadrupled in Republic of malaŵi, essentially increasing in all wealth quintiles, despite the widespread poverty, and more doubled in Tanzania and Uganda. However, subsequent increases were more modest in Malawi, Senegal and Tanzania, and the rise in CPR that ceased altogether in Kenya, Uganda and Nigeria has yet to achieve double-digit levels of modern contraceptive use.

Mod contraceptive use in Ghana, Republic of kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Senegal, Tanzania, Uganada and Zambia, 1989–2006. Filled triangle, Ghana; filled diamond, Kenya; filled square, Malawi; open up circumvolve, Nigeria; plus, Senegal; filled circle, Tanzania; open up triangle, Uganada; star, Zambia.

The solid declines in TFR that accompanied the increased modern methods in the 1980s and 1990s, of 0.half-dozen births per woman or more than from DHS to the next DHS, have later on macerated in Republic of ghana, Malawi and Republic of uganda and ceased in Republic of kenya, Nigeria and Tanzania, with TFRs remaining at quite high levels. Notwithstanding, every bit seen in tabular array i, all 7 countries have higher total fertility than wanted fertility, which, along with their high unmet need for family planning suggests missed programmatic opportunity. These results could besides be showing programmatic challenges in these countries due to lack of steady funding for family unit planning, the furnishings of healthcare workforce dynamics and/or wellness sector reform and decentralization.

It is well known that Africa suffers more than 24 per cent of the global burden of disease however it has only 3 per cent of the world's wellness workers and less than i per cent of the world's financial resource, fifty-fifty with loans and grants from abroad (Globe Health System 2006). Although international population aid, much of which went to sub-Saharan Africa, more than doubled worldwide from 2001 to 2004, increasing from $ii.five billion to $5.6 billion, this was largely due to increased funding for HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment and care programmes. The share of international population assistance devoted to family planning declined from 30 per cent in 2001 to less than 10 per cent in 2004 (Ethelston et al. 2004; Leahy 2007), which represents a decline in both absolute and per capita terms (Speidal 2009). Although donors ofttimes have shifted their priorities and resources to other health issues and other development sectors, in pursuit of the Un millennium development goals (MDGs), 'the MDGs are difficult or impossible to accomplish with current levels of population growth in the to the lowest degree adult countries and regions, unless attending is paid to the population growth factor' (All Party Parliamentary Grouping 2007)—an issue that can be dealt with if family planning is made easily available.

In the resource-poor settings mutual in sub-Saharan Africa, family planning programmes are further challenged past the unintended consequences of health sector reform and decentralization, which take devolved programmatic authority to lower levels. At that level, family planning programmes have to compete for the insufficient human and financial resources of other pressing priority health programmes such every bit malaria, tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS. As a result, the health, social and economic benefits that family planning confers on individuals, communities and nations are not as widely appreciated as they should be at the sites where the funding and human resource allocation decisions that affect family planning are being fabricated.

The devastating AIDS pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa has not only been diverting programmatic attention and resources, but it has also been affecting the healthcare workforce itself through disability and death. Reductions in the skilled workforce available to provide family unit planning are farther occurring because of other negative factors: out-migration to more developed countries; low pay, especially in the public sector; uneven distribution, deployment and use of existing staff; retirement and diminished programmatic investment in pre-service education (World Health Organization 2006).

Thus, contraceptive security is essential. Ensuring a steady menses of family unit planning bolt should exist role of the healthcare systems' responsibility—information technology cannot allow the supply of products, which are so essential to protecting the wellness of the populations, to get disrupted. Currently, most governments are relying on donors to provide funding for family planning, only donor support has been unsteady and hard to predict. Outside funding should exist sought every bit a supplement to a healthcare organisation'southward commitment but should never be the sole source. A promising new 'south–south' supply of contraceptives is arising and recently the government of Peoples Republic of China has donated contraceptives to Partners in Population and Development for distribution in Africa. It is important to ensure the supply of contraceptives by making family unit planning a permanent line item in healthcare organisation'south budgets.

(d) Remove barriers hindering admission to family planning

Programmes committed to reduce unmet demand for family planning can take concrete steps to remove barriers that hinder admission to family planning (Campbell et al. 2006). Legal, facility-based and provider-based barriers must be addressed to meliorate access. Legal barriers include formal laws and restrictions that deny females of reproductive age like shooting fish in a barrel access to family planning services. For case, keeping oral contraceptive pills on prescription disallows the ability to socially market the pills—an important distribution and financing machinery in low resource settings. Other restrictions include what level of provider tin can/should provide certain contraceptive methods. For instance, rural women in many part of Africa receive services from community-based distributors (CBDs), merely CBDs are only allowed to distribute pills and condoms. However, it is exactly in rural areas of sub-Saharan Africa that women prefer injectable contraceptives. Depo-provera provision by community-based workers was used in many parts of Asia and Latin America, and it was recently demonstrated in pilot projects in Uganda, Madagascar and Federal democratic republic of ethiopia. Yet, in most of sub-Saharan Africa, Depo-provera provision is restricted to skilled providers, despite the show showing its safety, feasibility and acceptability at the community level (Stanback et al. 2007). Similarly, the satisfactory provision of IUD insertion past non-physicians has been established since the 1970s (Eren et al. 1983; Farr et al. 1998), but today these services are provided more often than not past physicians and in some places selected mid-level providers such as clinical officers when, in fact, provision of non-surgical long-term methods of contraception should be an integral part of pre-service training for all levels of wellness workers, not only those working on college level facilities. The reproductive rights of all women of reproductive age, regardless of historic period, marital status and place of residence, need to be protected and facilitated by non-restrictive laws.

Facility-based barriers are non codification in police force, only their de facto practice creates unnecessary barriers to accessing family planning services such as clinics refusing to see adolescent patients or only providing contraceptive services on specific days of the week. In addition, provision of services of poor quality, including express contraceptive choice and inability to switch methods if unsatisfied with the prescribed one, are all facility restrictions imposed on clients that hinder admission. Moreover, to make family unit planning more attainable, all family planning methods except tubal ligation and vasectomy should be provided by community outreach workers whom women trust, outside of a facility.

Finally, provider-based barriers forbid women from accessing certain methods of contraception through discouragement or non-testify-based clinical practices that emerge from personal biases and beliefs. Providers have been widely documented to discourage individuals from accessing hormonal methods past insisting on costly and medically unnecessary pelvic examinations, blood tests or making it hard (or impossible) for women to obtain the method of their selection if they are nulliparous, take recently had an abortion or are of a certain historic period. Moreover, women using oral contraceptives are often required to visit the provider every month.

Family planning programme planners, peculiarly in sub-Saharan Africa, could profoundly benefit from removing the above-mentioned barriers. They are in a position to demonstrate strong leadership past taking on this important policy commitment which volition pave the fashion for improved wellness and prosperity in future generations.

3. Conclusions

Increasing access to family planning is an urgent priority for depression resource settings. Information technology is both a feasible and achievable intervention that can exist implemented immediately. To ensure that populations living in resource-poor settings accept the freedom and the choice to command their ain fertility, current family unit planning programmes will benefit from focusing on the four proposed strategies. This requires continued political and programmatic commitment to increase fiscal and human resources for family planning, from both governments and international strange aid.

Addressing the fertility and population growth crisis can be done merely when programme planners consider the revitalization of their current family planning programme within a human being rights framework. Evidence shows that the poorest couples have the highest fertility, the lowest contraceptive use and the highest unmet need for contraception. Making family planning accessible in depression resources settings would help decrease the existing inequities in achieving desired fertility, it could increment contraceptive employ, subtract fertility and it could help tiresome population growth within a human rights framework. In add-on, family planning can contribute to improvements in maternal and child wellness.

Failure to pay concerted attention to making family unit planning attainable in low resource settings volition probably result in couples having higher than desired fertility. Connected loftier fertility will hinder efforts to decrease maternal and infant bloodshed equally well every bit poverty. As a result, development goals volition become hard to accomplish and in some cases impossible.

The wellness rationale alone is a compelling reason for making family planning more attainable. Sub-Saharan Africa, for example, has not experienced a significant reduction in maternal bloodshed (Loma et al. 2007). Two hundred and five 1000000 pregnancies occur annually worldwide, 35 per cent of which are unintended and 22 per cent of which end in an induced abortion. Nearly of these pregnancies (182 one thousand thousand) happen in the developing earth. Ii-thirds of these pregnancies occur amidst women who are non using any method of contraception, making family planning a significant contributor to maternal health (Prata et al. 2009). A sub-Saharan African woman today has a 1 in 22 lifetime chance of maternal decease, and for every 109 births, a woman dies in pregnancy or childbirth (UNICEF 2009). By dissimilarity, among the European and other industrialized nations where women have skilful admission to family unit planning services, fewer than one in 16 400 will die of complications of pregnancy and childbirth, an almost 750-fold difference (UN Working Group at Women Deliver 2006). In improver to bloodshed, for every woman who dies, approximately xxx women endure infections, injuries and/or disabilities. Ensuring access to family unit planning in sub-Saharan Africa could avert thousands of maternal deaths (Prata et al. 2009) and foreclose hundreds of thousands of children from losing their mothers every yr. When a mother dies in a low resource setting, the risk of death in children who survive their female parent's expiry likewise rises. Furthermore, family planning prevents more female parent-to-kid transmission of HIV than do antiretroviral drugs (The states AID 2006).

The largest cohorts of young people in sub-Saharan Africa's history are entering and moving through their reproductive years. Twoscore-three per cent of sub-Saharan Africa'due south population is below the age of fifteen (Population Reference Bureau 2007). Given the electric current population growth charge per unit and the projected ascent in female population 15–49 years quondam, family planning programmes will have to run much faster, just to keep the current low modern contraceptive use. The certain large increase in future need and demand for family planning that the incoming immature and growing cohorts correspond will be intensified further by sub-Saharan Africa's rapidly increasing urbanization.

Sub-Saharan Africa's five per cent annual urban growth rate is the highest in the world, and twice its overall annual population increase of 2.4 per cent, also the world's highest (United Nations Population Fund 2007). According to recent estimates by the Un Population Division, whereas 28 per cent of sub-Saharan Africans lived in cities in 1990, 37 per cent of them lived in cities in 2006, and this proportion will rise to 48 per cent by 2030 and 60 per cent by 2050 (Un Population Division 2008). The additional pressure for family planning that such urbanization volition impose may be inferred from the current urban–rural differentials in CPR that are plant in various countries. For example, data from contempo DHS surveys show that some of the everyman differentials are found in Malawi (35% modernistic CPR in urban areas versus 27% in rural areas) and Nigeria (14% urban versus 6% rural) and the highest in Zambia (39% urban versus 14% rural) and Uganda (43% urban versus 21% rural).

The United nations Population Division projections for the year 2050 vary between a high of 10.6 and a low of 7.4 billion. Making family unit planning easily accessible to all today could brand a departure of billions in the world's population in 2050.

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