Tanzania has been ranked second for increased use of modern family planning methods through modern contraceptives with 207,000 users, with Kenya coming first for having a total of 290,000 users.
According to the Report titled ‘FP 2020 partnership 2012-2014’, Uganda is ranked in third position with 159,000 new users while Rwanda and Burundi are ranked fourth and fifth with 45,000 and 26,000 users respectively.
The Report which was launched early this week in London-UK and in Tanzania by an Organization dubbed Health Promotion Tanzania (HDT) and the United Nations Association of Tanzania (UNA) also cites that in 2012 only 25.6 percent of Tanzanians were using contraceptives, the percentage which increased to 26.7 percent in 2013.
Kenya saw an increase in contraceptive use to 30.7 per cent in the same period as compared to 31.3 percent population using the contraceptive method in 2012.
On the other hand, Uganda contraceptive use stood at 22.6percent as compared to 21.5 per cent records of 2012. Rwanda and Burundi had 26.9 percent and 13.0 per cent as compared to 26.3 percent and 12.2 in 2012 respectively.
The Executive Director with HDT, Dr Peter Bujari, told reporters mid this week that the report aims at increasing the use of family planning method service provision to 120 million new users especially women and girls by 2020 in 69 countries mostly Sub Saharan Africa.
He said Tanzania has committed itself to increase access to family planning (FP) information and supplies by strengthening political will and accountability and increasing of resources for the services.
The report however said the unmet needs for family planning still remains high, for one in four Tanzanian women who would like to prevent pregnancy or space childbearing.
It detailed achievements since the landmark 2012 London Summit on Family Planning saying partnership in progress, shows the initiative is making steady progress toward the goals of enabling an additional 120 million women and girls voluntarily to family planning services by 2020.
It says the first set of quantitative results on several core indicators was designed to track progress toward the FP2020 goals notably, in 2013 the number of women and girls using modern contraceptives in FP2020’s 69 focus countries increased by 8.4 million.
Expanded access to family planning helped avert 77 million unintended pregnancies, compared to 75 million in 2012; 125,000 maternal deaths, compared to 120,000 in 2012; and 24 million unsafe abortions, compared to 23 million in 2012.
SOURCE: THE GUARDIAN
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