Niger Case Study

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Niger is known for its many issues regarding their unstable political systems, high levels of gender inequality, high rates of malnutrition, and their high birth rates. Niger is one of the poorest countries in Africa and is also the country with the highest birth rate at 7.29 babies per women in 2015 (“Fertility Rate, Total”). The high birth rates means that the level of poverty in Niger will increase. There are multiple causes of the high birth rates in Niger. One of which being the common belief in Niger that when a family contains a large amount of children, the entire family will have a higher chance of becoming wealthy once a family member has found success in the future (Mohammad). Another cause of this high birth rate would be the lack …show more content…

Family planning and access to it must include accurate and appropriate knowledge of the subject. A number of poor and illiterate women think that birth control is more dangerous than childbirth and refuse to use modern methods. However, risk of death from childbirth is higher than risk associated with contraceptives. To further increase the rate of development, condoms and oral contraceptives should be available for all women, men, and couples to use. Volunteers within the cities should be trained to distribute the products. They should be well-educated on each method to be able to help those using them. Health workers and volunteers could also be trained to give injectable contraceptives—a shot containing the hormone progestin—to the women of Niger to move forward in development. Long term methods, like the IUD, won’t be as accessible due to lack of health personnel properly trained on insertion. However, due to conservatism in countries that practice Islam, such as Niger, it may be difficult for contraceptive use to become more prevalent, and family planning will be hard to achieve without acceptance from the citizens. Without acceptance from the citizens, Niger will struggle to reduce population growth through contraceptive use. By integrating comprehensive sex education, a form of education that is designed to into regular educational curriculums at

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