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  • Title: [Family planning. Priority on family health in order to reach men].
    Author: Ilboudo M.
    Journal: Pop Sahel; 1994 May; (20):8-10. PubMed ID: 12288140.
    Abstract:
    Family planning policy in Burkina Faso aims to improve maternal and child health. Family planning services are oriented towards modern contraceptives and tend to target women. Yet, the man has a large responsibility in the life of the family. He makes the important decisions on sexual relations and, therefore, on family planning. Family planning in terms of spacing of births interests many men. If family planning is presented as birth spacing, men would be in favor of it. Services adapted to men's needs will prove useful. Some men even want to limit the number of their children. A man from Burkina Faso believes that having many children is not a sign of affluence but of poverty. In rural areas, despite the lack of sanitation, weak means and methods of contraception, the people have information on family planning. Dispensaries are centers of distribution of such messages. The messages of the mass media are often misunderstood. A father of 6 who was older than 60 was unaware of methods to limit fertility. Sexual abstinence is no longer a rule in rural areas, at least among the youth. In the villages, young couples often face the many problems of too close pregnancies. Male violence is equally responsible for some situations. The drunk husband enters the home while falling and making his wife sleep with him. This violence is an obstacle to freedom in matters of production. It is not easy to change their attitude. One has simply ignored the influential role of men. Men are even forgotten in conception programs. Since 1981 in Mauritania, the family health program has had a fathers' school which sensitizes men to the problems of women, children, and family planning. The Ghanian Family Planning Association sponsors Dads' Clubs.
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