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Little progress in meeting demand for contraception in poorest countries: Study
-The Hindu

 

Growth in number of women needing contraception concentrated in 69 poorest countries

Poorest countries within the developing world lag far behind higher-income developing countries in meeting the demand for modern contraception, says a study.

Between 2003 and 2012, the total number of women wanting to avoid pregnancy and needing contraception increased from 716 million to 867 million, with the growth concentrated in 69 poorest countries where modern methods use was already very low.

The study, "Trends in Contraceptive Need and Use in Developing Countries in 2003, 2008, 2012: An Analysis of National Surveys," by Jacqueline E. Darroch and Susheela Singh, is published in the latest issue of The Lancet as a special themed issue - timed to Women Deliver 2013 conference in Kuala Lumpur by May-end.

The study was done by the Guttmacher Institute.

Roughly, three-quarters or 73 per cent of the 222 million women in the developing countries who want to avoid pregnancy but are not using modern methods now live in the poorest countries, compared with 67 per cent in 2003. Furthermore, those in the poorest countries who want to avoid pregnancy are one-third as likely to be using modern methods as those living in higher-income developing countries.

Between 2003 and 2012, in the developing world, overall modern contraceptive use increased from 71 to 74 per cent among those wanting to avoid pregnancy, though rates varied greatly among the sub-regions. Notable progress was made in Eastern Africa (31 to 46 per cent), Southern Africa (75 to 83 per cent), Southeast Asia (64 to 72 per cent), Central America (71 to 77 per cent) and South America (73 to 79 per cent).

Contrastingly, the sub-regions recorded no virtual progress, with the lowest rates of use in Middle Africa, where contraceptive use increased from 17 to 19 per cent, and in Western Africa, from 22 to 26 per cent.

Overall, in most sub-regions, modern contraceptive use grew more slowly between 2008 and 2012 than between 2003 and 2008.

Shift from sterilisation

The authors found that between 2003 and 2012, there was a shift from sterilisation (declining from 47 to 38 per cent of all modern methods use in the developing countries) to methods with higher failure rates, namely barrier methods (increasing from 7 to 13 per cent) and injectables (from 6 to 9 per cent). They argued that this trend calls for greater focus on services that help women use reversible contraceptive methods consistently and correctly.