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GATSIBO: Women urged their husbands to apply family planning

By BAHOZE Diane

Rwanda envisions to achieve the highest attainable standard of health across the life course for all women, men and young people with equitable access to rights-based quality family planning services towards sustainable socio-economic development by 2030.

Family planning is central to gender equality and women's empowerment rtoward socio- economic development.

However, finding yourself pregnant when you hoped to have a good birth control, encountering various diseases, these are some of the side effects that some of the parents who went through the birth control program show that they often face them.

These are the problems that some women face in family planning and they ask their husbands to help them, since there is also a way for them.

This request for men to help their wives is disputed by men because there are those who have the idea that family planning is for men.

Only others find it doesn't matter if a man goes on birth control while the woman is affected, because after all it is for the benefit of the family.

Mukamana Maricelline, Deputy Director of Gatsibo District in charge of social welfare, explains that “the planning process concerns the whole family, so that after discussing the woman and the man should make a decision which will be easier”.

Participation in family planning in Gatsibo reached 58.7% At least 447 men who were able to participate were able to reproduce permanently.

Vice Mayor Mukamana says that “there is an increase in the campaign in the community to teach the importance of family planning, but emphasizes that men are the ones who still have a low level of participation in this program, so they are the most targeted in this campaign”.

Over the last two decades, Rwanda has registered tremendous improvement in family planning (FP). The contraceptive prevalence rate (CPR) in the country has tripled from 17% in 2005 to 53% in 2014-15.

Yet, the 2014-15 Rwanda demographic and health survey (RDHS) showed a slow increase in the use of modern FP methods compared to the previous five years (only around a 3% increase), and the unmet need for contraception remains unchanged at 19% compared to the previous five years. The drop-out rate of FP users is high for unknown reasons, and yet, over the years, many strategies have been put in place to speed up FP uptake in order to reap the “demographic dividend.”

For more than 20 years, the Government of Rwanda has been working to rebuild its health personnel and infrastructure shattered during the genocide. With two thirds of the population under the age of 25, in 2017 Rwanda revised its commitment from 2012 to measure successful demand creation for family planning and increase total demand for contraception for married women from 72% to 82% by 2020.

Traditionally, having children has been a source of pride and respect and, as a result, Rwanda is the most densely populated country in Africa. The Government of Rwanda aims to disseminate its first ever integrated Reproductive Maternal Newborn Child and Adolescent Health strategy across the country, working alongside partners to advance cost-effective implementation strategic plans and systematic monitoring for greater impact.

Family planning is central to gender equality and women's empowerment rtoward socio- economic development.

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