BABATUNDE OSOTIMEHIN & CHRIS ELIAS: Tanzania can accelerate family planning access

>For the past two years, the global community has been reaffirming its commitment towards an ambitious and important goal: to ensure that, by 2020, 120 million more women and girls in the world’s poorest countries are able to decide – freely and for themselves – whether and when to have children.

TheCitizen

Habari Zinazoendana

11 years ago

TheCitizen

02 Jun

EDITORIAL: Go beyond family planning

>Tanzania’s population growth rate of 3 per cent does not augur well for the country’s economic prospects.  It is estimated that Tanzania will have 80 million people by 2050, a short 36 years from now.

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

01 Feb

Getting the right family planning method

>Jael Lieta, 28, first heard of family planning from a friend who advised her to go for it immediately after she had her first child, now aged 12.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

21 Dec

Provide ‘family planning contraceptives’

Doctors kill their mistakes while lawyers jail theirs. And how about editors? These ones, as everybody knows, post theirs on the front page… or the headlines, we add.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

05 Nov

TZ family planning on track: report

>Tanzania has shown progress in family planning, it has been revealed. Family Planning (FP) 2020 progress report indicated that some areas in the country have made considerable steps in terms of being conscious of family sizes.

 

10 years ago

Daily News

02 Feb

Pinda stresses family planning

Pinda stresses family planning
Daily News
PRIME Minister Mizengo Pinda has stressed the need for family planning methods to check rampant population growth, noting that the raise should be at par with the economy which has been growing at an average of 7 per cent over the last decade.

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

22 Feb

FEATURE: Fostering family planning in TZ

>Death during labour and death resulting from complications attributed to unsafe abortion arising from unwanted pregnancies is something that shouldn’t be condoned in Tanzania.

 

11 years ago

AllAfrica.Com

18 Jul

Family Planning Initiative Focuses On Colleges

Family Planning Initiative Focuses On Colleges
AllAfrica.com
Mwanza — MARIE Stopes Tanzania head of Communications, Mr JohnBosco Basso lectures students from higher learning institutions in Mwanza Region on family planning and reproductive health at Nyegezi Clinic recently. (File photo). FAMILY planning ...

 

10 years ago

Daily News

18 Mar

Men blamed for discouraging family planning

Men blamed for discouraging family planning
Daily News
THE ongoing campaigns on family planning in Zanzibar have not been doing well because of little support from men still with negative views on the programme. It was revealed in a meeting to discuss population growth challenges that campaign for family ...

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

15 Jun

Scaring information associated with fears over family planning

Women in Mara Region rank the lowest in accessing and using modern contraception for family planning, authorities revealed here this week.

 

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