Family Planning: The Road to Policy Reforms on November 24, 2020Four children will share a mattress for one, and in a house made for five people a family of ten will reside. These instances will be pedestrian observations in the Pakistan of 2050—the year when country’s population will, ostensibly, double. To circumvent such an apocalyptic future, Pakistan must popularize and embrace birth spacing. This step, […]
Family Planning — The Missing Links on August 28, 2020“I t is good to delay the first, postpone the second, and prevent the third”- Daya Chaudhary. Interestingly, this is the stance taken by many intellectuals, politicians,health experts,and doctorsonthe significance of birth spacing. In Pakistan, efforts to promote Family Planning (FP) started in the 1960s, but favorable results have not manifested yet. One reason for […]
Family planning — the missing links on August 24, 2020“It is good to delay the first, postpone the second, and prevent the third” – Daya Chaudhary. Interestingly, this is the stance taken by many intellectuals, politicians, health experts, and doctors on the significance of birth spacing. In Pakistan, efforts to promote Family Planning (FP) started in the 1960s, but favorable results have not manifested […]
What Women Want for Family Planning: Meeting the Demand on June 29, 2020In Pakistan, every year, over 8,300 women die during pregnancy and childbirth. These deaths are avoidable yet are not prevented by the country’s healthcare system. One cause for these preventable deaths is the absence of women’s feedback on the reproductive healthcare services they receive. Birth Spacing Programs, for instance, which revolve around women, are usually […]
Family planning in the time of COVID-19 on May 15, 2020Last month, a United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) report shared a shocking estimate: there will be 7 million more unwanted pregnancies in middle and low-income countries during the COVID-19 pandemic. This spike is caused by 47 million women in such countries losing access to modern methods of contraception due to closure of many family planning […]
Family planning — the Pakistan story on March 8, 2020Mussolini’s Italy awarded medals to women as an incentive to have more children-future soldiers for its fascist army. China, on the other hand, introduced an aggressive one-child policy in order to ensure its economic success. Throughout human history population planning has been either a war strategy or an economic policy. Fortunately, governments later acknowledged that […]