Pairing family planning services with HIV/AIDS treatment can help curb Africa's population growth rate which records a yearly increase of 2.5 percent, health experts said.
Many of those seeking HIV/AIDS information are often the ones who need to be offered birth control services, Maggwa Ndugga of Family Health International told AFP.
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"We started to realize that most of the people who were coming to us for HIV AIDS information are the same people that we needed to be targeting for family planning services," Ndugga said during an international family health conference in Kampala.
Every year, 75 million women in developing countries have unintended pregnancies and Africa is a significant contributor, according to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA).
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Last year, the continent's population stood at 809 million.
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