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Article: Family planning policies and their impacts on the poor: Peru's experience.(COMMENT)(Report)
- Article from:
- International Family Planning Perspectives
- Article date:
- December 1, 2007
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Although governments develop family planning policies to guide program design and implementation, these policies can have both intended and unintended consequences. As a result, policies may need periodic revision to achieve the desired outcomes. Over the last two decades, the government of Peru has instituted a series of laws and policies designed to enhance access to family planning services and commodities. In practice, these policies have not always had their desired effect. This paper examines the policies Peru's Ministry of Health has developed and implemented to promote access to family planning for all, and how those policies have affected contraceptive prevalence, ...
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