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Pakistan: New Survey Indicates Family Planning Weaknesses
July 15, 2008
World Population Day on July 11 with its theme "Family planning, is a right, make it real" was a bleak reminder for Pakistani health practitioners of the precarious state of maternal, neonatal and child health (MNCH).
Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani has said his government plans to reduce the annual rate of population growth to 1.55 percent from 1.8 percent over five years, but health practitioners say the efforts and money spent so far on family planning programmes have not achieved the desired results: Often, women only stop having children when their husbands or mothers-in-law say so.
A recent major survey showed a decline in births per woman since the early 1990s, but no improvement since 2001.
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category: News from Other Sources : General Health News
contributed by Liza Nanni on 17 July 2008
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