“I had wanted to have just four children but somehow I just found myself postponing using this family planning. “If you live in a good neighbourhood, chances are that you will go to a good hospital that offers high-quality family planning services. Additionally, most women of lower socio-economic status also have less education, undermining their ability to learn about family planning and decide to take it up. “Poor women are not the final decision-makers on family planning, because it is when the woman is more educated that she becomes intellectually liberated and empowered to make a choice on family planning,” says Dr Manguro. With respect to family planning promotion in the country, the conference’s theme “Accelerating the promise” appears to speak to the need to scale up all investments that have borne fruit and fill the gaps.

Source: Daily Nation November 11, 2019 13:30 UTC