Family Planning in Zambia: An Investment Pillar for Economic Development: [version 2;peer review: 2 approved]
Gates Open Research
; 2020.
Article
in English
| ProQuest Central | ID: covidwho-1835867
ABSTRACT
Family planning represents a ‘best buy’ in global efforts to achieve sustainable development and attain improvements in sexual and reproductive health. By meeting contraceptive needs of all women, significant public health impact and development gains accrue. At the same time, governments face the complex challenge of allocating finite resources to competing priorities, each of which presents known and unknown challenges and opportunities. Zambia has experienced a slow but steady increase in contraceptive prevalence, with slight decline in total fertility rate (TFR), over the past 20 years. Drawing from the Zambian context, including a review of current policy solutions, we present a case for making investments in voluntary family planning (FP), underpinned by a human rights framework, as a pillar for accelerating development and socio-economic advancement. Through multilevel interventions aimed at averting unintended pregnancies, Zambia – and other low- and middle-income countries – can reduce their age dependency ratios and harness economic growth opportunities awarded by the demographic dividend while improving the health and quality of life of the population.
Medical Sciences; family planning; FP2020; sustainable development goals; social-economic development; costed implementation plan; Zambia; Womens health; Investments; Health surveys; Reproductive health; Economic development; Births; Birth control; Risk assessment; COVID-19; Quality of life; Human immunodeficiency virus--HIV; Maternal & child health; Sustainable development; Age; Pandemics; Fertility; Methods; Acquired immune deficiency syndrome--AIDS; Maternal mortality; Cost control; Coronaviruses; Systematic review; Africa
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English
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Gates Open Research
Year:
2020
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