MADAGASCAR: Ambitious family planning goals

Thanks to Phil Kreitner for this article.
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Being an exhausted mother of 10 children by your early thirties is not unusual in rural Madagascar, but a movement is now underway to try and provide women with a contraceptive choice.

“I often get women in the clinic who have had eight or more children and are desperate to stop,” said nurse Rebecca Hill, who has been running a family planning clinic in Andavadoaka, a remote village in southwest Madagascar, for the past six months. “They are all too pleased to have a break, and family planning can allow that to happen. But there is a huge unmet need for these facilities here, and that needs to change.”

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