Kenya launches family planning campaign

February 15, 2012

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Kenya's National Council for Population and Development (NCPD) launched a family planning campaign on Tuesday (February 14th) aimed at decreasing the country's birth rate from 2.9% to the global average of 2.1% annually, Business Daily Africa reported.

The campaign "hopes to ensure that family planning becomes a norm at both household and individual level", said Planning Minister Wycliffe Oparanya.

According to Kenya's The Star, the population of Kenya would increase by four-fold at the current growth rate, endangering long-term economic and social stability.

The initiative is part of a five-year strategic plan to control population growth that will cost more than $19 million. One of the goals of the campaign is a media outreach and education initiative to expand the use of contraceptives among women in the country from 46% to 56%.

The campaign will focus on community-based programmes involving women's groups to drive the message, said George Kichamu, NCPD deputy director for communication and advocacy.

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  • nailantei
    April 12, 2012 @ 06:41:59AM

    i agree,the will is there but the means to achieve is quite a challenge.first perception of the community where i work is the biggest issue,2ndly there is a gap in skills among health care providers especially in long acting and permanent methods,and finally resources to carry out the campaigns are limited.the unmet need for FP among HIV infected persons is an increasingly need too.

  • Dominic Rotich
    March 28, 2012 @ 03:12:02AM

    lets involve men in the campaign so that we may succeed in reducing the population as it has great effect in the long run if we keep siring children yet resources are scarce.it has long been overdue but i believe it is not too late.young generation has to change the society.educating the society is the way to go no matter how long it is going to take but it is worth it.

  • Zubeyr
    March 21, 2012 @ 07:40:41PM

    Kenya is witnessing an economic crisis, where the Kenyan economy performance was the worst this year since the independence in 1963, where the Kenyan currency is reduced to the lowest level and the fuel, food and electricity in an impossible way for most of the people categories. In spite of the political agreement that has been sponsored by the Secretary General of the UN Kofi Anan along with a support from the African Union and the west that ordered dividing the power between the current oresident Kibaki and his antagonist the current prime ministerOdinga as well as enforcng new constitutin, but all these adjustments do not shift the silent Kenyan economy stagnation that greatly depends on the external grants and aids as well as the existence of the fears from the commercial disability in this economy.

  • valerie
    March 19, 2012 @ 08:48:51AM

    i think this would be the best campaign so far if succeeds, Kenyans; we are just moving to those Ape ages when we ourt to fordge ahead and build athe nation economically, we a the ones who are caousing the food insecurity, joblessness, poor economy and all of the sort just in the name of fulfilling Gods word. When God told the Isralites he was taking them to a land flowing with honey and milk he expected the m to use their brains and keep Bees and Animals that give milk so did he he when he said go fill the world> Men open your eye, use your brains and let there be a distinction between u and the cow or hare.

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