How can spacing methods be promoted?
The key to increasing the use of spacing methods is enhanced communications on the one hand, and efficient service delivery on the other. The importance of communications is brought out by the fact that 99% of married women are aware of at least one modern contraceptive method. However, knowledge about all the methods, which is a prerequisite for informed choice, is only 58%, and only 42.8% use any modern method at all. This is so because counselling and inter-personal communications, so essential for informed choice, are not pursued as an integral part of service delivery by the health workers.
