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Benefits of family planning/contraception WHO https://www.who.int/news…
Benefits of family planning/contraception WHO
https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/family-planning-contraception
Preventing health risks which are pregnancy related
Family planning
Helps woman at increased risk of health problems and death from early childbearing
Prevents unintended pregnancies
Old woman who are at risk
Reduces need of unsafe abortion
Woman can limit size of their family
Parents can invest more in each child
Children with fewer siblings tend to stay in school longer than those with more
siblings
Reduces child mortality
Prevent closely spaced and ill timed pregnancies
Enhancing education and empowering people
Women
can make their own choices about their sexual and reproductive health
Woman can therefore participate in educating themselves
Participate in public life
Which can lead to a better chance of getting a job
Reduces adolescent pregnancies
more likely to have light weighted or preterm babies
Higher rates of neonatal mortality
Pregnant adolescents are more likely to leave school
Fewer opportunities in the future
Slowing population growth
Contraceptives are the key to slowing population growth
And resulting negative impacts on the economy, environment and national/regional development efforts
Key facts about contraceptives
214 million women who want to avoid pregnancy are not using a (modern) contraceptive method
Reasons
limited choice of methods
Limited acces mostly amongst the poor, unmarried or young people
fear of side-effects
Cultural or religious opposition
Poor quality available services
uUers and providers bias
gender-based barriers.
Some contraceptives help prevent spreading STD's.
Family planning reduces unwanted pregnancies of women carrying HIV
Fewer infected babies and orphans
Reduces need for (unsafe) abortion
Reinforces people's rights to determine
number and spacing
of their children
Prevents death of mothers and children