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Nigeria Intends to Promote Family Planning to Curb Swelling Population

December 25, 2007 at 7:27 PM General Health News
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Nigeria Intends to Promote Family Planning to Curb Swelling Population
"A child if I want and when I want," reads the sign at the family health centre in Niamey where dozens of Niger women come every morning to get free contraceptives.


"I was taking the pill without my husband's knowledge," recounted Zahratou Amadou, a 38-year-old mother of 10. "When he found out he repudiated me."

Male domination and Islamic proselytizing, coupled with poverty and a lack of education, mean that the vast majority of women in this southern Sahara country do not use any form of contraception.

"Plan your children because you, and not your husbands, are the ones who risk losing your lives," Zada Bawa, a midwife at the centre, never tires of telling those who come for consultations.

She also touches on the need for poor countries to control births.

For Niger, faced with the knowledge that its rate of economic growth cannot keep pace with its rate of population growth, in February adopted a controversial strategy aimed at inversing its demographic growth curve, the highest in the world at 3.3 percent.

In Niger, on average, a woman gives birth to 7.1 children. Only five percent of women use any form of contraception, largely because men forbid their wives to use it.

The result is that Niger's population jumped from three million in 1980 to 13 million in 2006 and, unless the current trend is inversed, it is expected to hit 56 million in 2050, according to official projections.

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