BACKGROUND Knowledge of contraceptive methods is an important factor for an individual to use or not use of family planning methods. In Nepal, at least one modern method of family planning is universal amongst both men and women. OBJECTIVES To assess the knowledge, attitude regarding various family planning methods and practice of contraceptives amongst couples attending Dhulikhel Hospital Ob...

International Family Planning Perspectives The report of the International Conference on Population and Development issued the following directive: “Recognize that appropriate methods for couples and individuals vary according to their age, parity, family sizepreference and other factors, and ensure that women and men have information and access to the widest possible range of safe and effectiv...

Sterilization is a convenient method of avoiding further pregnancies for couples who do not want any more children. Its finality implies that its use should as far as possible be restricted to men and women who will not decide later that they would have liked to have had more children. About one in six currently married women in Bangladesh aged under fifty years who are using a permanent method...

The aim of this paper is to review the performance of the family planning program initiated in 1989 in the Islamic Republic of Iran. Following a quick look at the family planning program that existed before the Revolution (1967-1979), the paper documents the fate of the program during the first decade after the Islamic Revolution (1979-1988) and its official revival in 1989. It is shown that th...