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  • Title: Men and family planning--a global view.
    Journal: Concern (Anaheim); 1981; (20):1-2. PubMed ID: 12338296.
    Abstract:
    New research suggests that men have more interest in contraception and willingness to practice it than assumed. Recent experience also may indicate that family planning programs aimed at men can increase condom use and reliance on vasectomy. Recent studies in the U.S. indicate that the majority of men favor birth control and believe that men and women should share the responsibility for using it. A survey of Mexican men found that they believe in limiting family size. Preliminary results from studies in 5 Third World countries indicate that men have a greater interest in family planning than expected. Social and cultural constraints may explain the difference between attitudes and practice. Male contraceptives are still widely used; approximately 1/3 of the world's acceptors use male methods. Approximately 37 million men rely on condoms, 35 million have had vasectomies, and millions depend on withdrawal. Most people who rely on male contraceptives live in industrial countries. In France and Italy, withdrawal is the second most popular method of birth control; in Japan, 79% of the married couples use condoms; in the U.S., 10% rely on vasectomies. The number of couples using male contraception is likely to increase in the years ahead. 30% of U.S. men in the postwar baby boom are expected to have vasectomies. Male sterilizations are becoming more popular in Great Britain, China, and India. Clinical tests on hormonal contraceptives for men have begun and could be available within the next 2 decades. Few organized birth control programs are reaching men. However in Danfa, men are more conscientious birth control users and better family planning advocates than women and their acceptance rate has resulted in substantial fertility reductions. More social and monetary support should be allocated to encourage a responsible role in family planning among men. New male responsibility is already paying off in births averted, as documented in India and the Philippines and in the reduction of the spread of venereal disease in the U.S.
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