After her first child, Aisha Nakanja made a decision not to use contraceptives. Besides her religious restrictions, she was scared of the consequences of modern contraceptive methods. “I had seen how ...

A growing coalition of conservatives are speaking out against hormonal birth control, while promoting a more “natural” ...

The Chairman of the Association for the Advancement of Family Planning, Dr Ejike Orji, has charged Christian and Muslim women to adopt modern family planning methods. Orji explained that the use of ...

Egypt's Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS) said on Saturday that 66.4 percent of married women in the country use family planning methods, a 7.9 percent increase over the ...

Women wait outside the only maternity hospital in Srinagar, India, on July 10, 2008, a day ahead of World Population Day. (Mukhtar Khan/Associated Press) About 200 million women around the world ...