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IN ARMENIA, ALMOST ONE IN FIVE FAMILIES IS INFERTILE
Society - Wednesday, 14 November 2012, 17:32
http://www.lragir.am/index.php/eng/0/society/view/28059
Yerevan, 14 November 2012 - Today, UNFPA, United Nations Population
Fund released the State of World Population 2012 report, which this
year was dedicated to family planning as a human right that can help
reduce the number of abortions and maternal mortality.
If the unmet need for contraceptives was met, worldwide, an estimated
26 million abortions would not take place this year. In Eastern Europe
48% of pregnancies are unwanted. The vast majority of these end in
abortion (79%).
According to the 2012 State of the World Population report, "The
evidence is strong that as modern contraception becomes more widely
used, abortion rates fall (Westoff, 2008). For example, in Russian
Federation, as the use of the intrauterine device and the pill
increased by 74 between 1991 and 2001, abortion, which had been the
primary means of fertility control for decades, fell by 61 per cent.
Similar patterns are seen throughout the Eastern Europe and Central
Asian countries where women previously lacked access to modern
contraception (Westoff, 2005)."
The rate of modern contraceptive use is relatively low in the Eastern
Europe and Central Asia. The region has a modern contraceptive
prevalence rate of 54% for women in age group 15-49. Moreover,
the belief that family planning negatively affects fertility
rates is not necessarily the case as the fact check shows. As a
matter of fact, the contraception prevalence rate in Turkey is 73%
(modern contraception methods - 46%), but at the same time Turkey is
considered to be a main engine of population growth in the region and
has a total fertility rate of 2.2. However, in Armenia contraception
prevalence indicators are 55% and 27% respectively, while the total
fertility rate constitutes 1.7.
However, family planning and use of modern contraception can
significantly contribute to addressing the bitter issue of infertility,
thus facilitating population growth. In Armenia, almost one in five
families is infertile (UNFPA, 2009), the overwhelming majority of them
have secondary infertility, which means that the person previously
had a child, but cannot bear a child anymore, the main reasons being
unsafe abortions and sexually transmitted diseases due to the lack
of sex education and access to affordable family planning services.
Society - Wednesday, 14 November 2012, 17:32
http://www.lragir.am/index.php/eng/0/society/view/28059
Yerevan, 14 November 2012 - Today, UNFPA, United Nations Population
Fund released the State of World Population 2012 report, which this
year was dedicated to family planning as a human right that can help
reduce the number of abortions and maternal mortality.
If the unmet need for contraceptives was met, worldwide, an estimated
26 million abortions would not take place this year. In Eastern Europe
48% of pregnancies are unwanted. The vast majority of these end in
abortion (79%).
According to the 2012 State of the World Population report, "The
evidence is strong that as modern contraception becomes more widely
used, abortion rates fall (Westoff, 2008). For example, in Russian
Federation, as the use of the intrauterine device and the pill
increased by 74 between 1991 and 2001, abortion, which had been the
primary means of fertility control for decades, fell by 61 per cent.
Similar patterns are seen throughout the Eastern Europe and Central
Asian countries where women previously lacked access to modern
contraception (Westoff, 2005)."
The rate of modern contraceptive use is relatively low in the Eastern
Europe and Central Asia. The region has a modern contraceptive
prevalence rate of 54% for women in age group 15-49. Moreover,
the belief that family planning negatively affects fertility
rates is not necessarily the case as the fact check shows. As a
matter of fact, the contraception prevalence rate in Turkey is 73%
(modern contraception methods - 46%), but at the same time Turkey is
considered to be a main engine of population growth in the region and
has a total fertility rate of 2.2. However, in Armenia contraception
prevalence indicators are 55% and 27% respectively, while the total
fertility rate constitutes 1.7.
However, family planning and use of modern contraception can
significantly contribute to addressing the bitter issue of infertility,
thus facilitating population growth. In Armenia, almost one in five
families is infertile (UNFPA, 2009), the overwhelming majority of them
have secondary infertility, which means that the person previously
had a child, but cannot bear a child anymore, the main reasons being
unsafe abortions and sexually transmitted diseases due to the lack
of sex education and access to affordable family planning services.