Summary

In this Study Session, you have learned that:

• Uncontrolled fertility is a condition when an individual or couples fail to plan their future family size to match the economic level of their family. Uncontrolled fertility restricts women's educational and economic opportunities, thereby limiting their potential for empowerment.
• Rapid population growth is linked to many problems, including poverty, hunger, high infant mortality and inadequate social services and infrastructure.
• As populations grow, competition for fertile land and the uses of limited resources increases and cause environmental degradation.
• Family planning is defined as the use of various methods of fertility control that will help individuals or couples to have the number of children they desire and at a planned time interval to ascertain the well-being of the children, parents and communities at large. Promotion of family planning and ensuring access to preferred contraceptive methods benefits the mother, children, family and support the health and development of communities
• The modern family planning service in Ethiopia started as The Family Guidance Association of Ethiopia (FGAE), established in 1966 providing the service from a single-room clinic run by one nurse in A.A but now access to these services has been almost universal for all urban and rural communities. Currently, the service has been provided to rural communities at household level through the Health Extension Programme.