Fertility remains higher and contraceptive levels are substantially lower than elsewhere in the developing world (Larsson). The use of family planning is to help prevent accidental pregnancy and to stop the spreading of Sexually Transmitted Diseases including HIV. The current future of this region, the future that will evolve without meaningful interventions, is indeed depressing but should not be accepted as a possible future. Sub-Saharan Africa needs family planning services more than almost anywhere else in the world. With seventy percent of new HIV cases originating in this region a need for better healthcare services is needed immediately. Sub-Saharan Africa faces challenges such as religious and economic views as well as social structure
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Religion is a main reason as to why family planning is not used appropriately in this region if at all. The spread of christianity throughout the region has began to turn things around but traditional muslim families are still likely to be against contraceptives. Christianity couples are often better educated giving them more of a reason to practice safe sex. Christians are also more prone to practice monogamy. Muslim families often have many partners usually the husband. Fertility is still at a high due mostly to Muslim families as well. Men in Muslim families do not take care of their spouse or spouses giving women a reason to have many children. The children are the ones who take care of their mothers in most cases making the need to have five or six children almost a must. Men in Christian homes usually have a different outlook on marriage and family being more prone to use contraceptives and have less children. A more Christian outlook could potentially set Sub-Saharan Africa off in the right …show more content…
While African women whose partner's HIV status does not match their own generally use condoms, they do not typically use other forms of contraceptives consistently, according to data from a multinational trial testing an antiviral drug. By the end of the two-year study, more than ninety percent of women were consistently using condoms. However, only thirty percent of HIV-positive women with uninfected male partners and fourteen percent of HIV-negative women with infected male partners were consistently using a form of contraception other than condoms (Kott). Significant investments are needed in Sub-Saharan Africa in order to meet the need for modern family planning (Guttmacher Institute). The most common form of protection being used now are condoms which provide the most protection from HIV infection, other than practicing abstinence, but are not the most reliable option for preventing unwanted pregnancy. There are several different types of protection mostly for females but males have a few as well. The pill, IUD, emergency contraceptives also known as plan-B and these are just a few. Sterilization for male or female is also a possible option. The current level of methods being provided in this region costs annually three hundred and eighty million dollars;the level of methods needed to fulfil the needs for all current users would cost two point seven billion dollars annually (Guttmacher
Religion is a main reason as to why family planning is not used appropriately in this region if at all. The spread of christianity throughout the region has began to turn things around but traditional muslim families are still likely to be against contraceptives. Christianity couples are often better educated giving them more of a reason to practice safe sex. Christians are also more prone to practice monogamy. Muslim families often have many partners usually the husband. Fertility is still at a high due mostly to Muslim families as well. Men in Muslim families do not take care of their spouse or spouses giving women a reason to have many children. The children are the ones who take care of their mothers in most cases making the need to have five or six children almost a must. Men in Christian homes usually have a different outlook on marriage and family being more prone to use contraceptives and have less children. A more Christian outlook could potentially set Sub-Saharan Africa off in the right …show more content…
While African women whose partner's HIV status does not match their own generally use condoms, they do not typically use other forms of contraceptives consistently, according to data from a multinational trial testing an antiviral drug. By the end of the two-year study, more than ninety percent of women were consistently using condoms. However, only thirty percent of HIV-positive women with uninfected male partners and fourteen percent of HIV-negative women with infected male partners were consistently using a form of contraception other than condoms (Kott). Significant investments are needed in Sub-Saharan Africa in order to meet the need for modern family planning (Guttmacher Institute). The most common form of protection being used now are condoms which provide the most protection from HIV infection, other than practicing abstinence, but are not the most reliable option for preventing unwanted pregnancy. There are several different types of protection mostly for females but males have a few as well. The pill, IUD, emergency contraceptives also known as plan-B and these are just a few. Sterilization for male or female is also a possible option. The current level of methods being provided in this region costs annually three hundred and eighty million dollars;the level of methods needed to fulfil the needs for all current users would cost two point seven billion dollars annually (Guttmacher