'I'm proud to wear the (contraceptive) implant.' Via Reuters
NIAMEY, Oct 7 - Abdulaziz, Aminatu, Absatu, Abdulmanaf. Fahad. And, well, also Mansour. They are the names Zeinab Garba has in mind for any future children she has.
That is a growing threat to food and water supplies - and the pressures heighten as the nation's population booms, with each woman having on average 7.6 children, said Sani Ayouba, the director of environmental group Young Volunteers for the Environment. That pressure is worst in the richest countries, where each additional person consumes far more resources than an added child in a poorer country.
The five-minute procedure will give her three years without a pregnancy, with a 99% effectiveness rate, the midwife said. But a national budget of 200 million FCFA for purchasing contraceptives doesn't go far enough, said Salamatou Traore, president of the Coalition of Stakeholders for the Repositioning of Family Planning in Niger.
The activists have met with parliamentarians and cabinet ministers, as well as a range of community groups. But worries quickly arose from a handful of listeners. Muslim authorities will not accept the proposal, one participant commented. But Niger's population growth rate is not simply the result of lack of access to contraception, said Abdou Batouati, a researcher at the Institute for Research in Human Sciences at Niamey's Abdou Moumouni University.In the city's open markets, among bars of soap, stalls of lemons and the calls of salesmen, some vendors sell boxes of contraceptive pills, stacked in colorful towers atop trays carried on the vendors' heads.
In what would be a pioneering move, it may include a section noting the links between boosting family planning and lessening climate change impacts.
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