Kenya: Poor Women Not Practising Family Planning

22 October 2012

Poor women are giving birth to many children because family planning services are unaffordable. A reproductive health division study shows that most poor people in rural and urban areas don't use family planning. Ann Njeru from the division says many of these women continue to give birth as a result.

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