From Cairo to Kayoro FROM
CAIRO
TO
KAYORO

Bringing Reproductive Health to a Village in Ghana

A PERSONAL ESSAY BY
MARGARET CATLEY-CARLSON
POPULATION COUNCIL


 

Table of Contents

Introduction

In Cairo, two major messages:

In Kayoro:

How relevant?

Nurses on motorbikes

Village conclaves

Women choose contraceptives

Female excision decreases

Conversations about disease prevention are rare

Moving Kayoro through the fertility transition

Impact of population momentum

Women's lives must improve

Conversation with Kayoro chief

Suggested Readings

About the Author

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Suggested readings

 

Adongo, Philip B., James F. Phillips, and Fred N. Binka. 1998. "The influence of traditional religion on fertility regulation among the Kassena-Nankana of northern Ghana," Studies in Family Planning 29(1):23–40.

Adongo, Philip B., et al.1997. "Cultural factors constraining the introduction of family planning among the Kassena-Nankana of northern Ghana," Social Science and Medicine 45(12):1789–1804.

Binka, Fred N., Alex Nazzar, and James F. Phillips. 1995. "The Navrongo Community Health and Family Planning Project,"Studies in Family Planning 26(3):121–139.

Bongaarts, John and Sajeda Amin. 1997. "Prospects for fertility decline and implications for population growth in South Asia,"Policy Research Division Working Paper No. 94. New York:Population Council.

Dunston, Amy Gale and Peter C. Miller. 1995. "Improving community based family planning services and the potential for increasing contraceptive prevalence in Bangladesh," Regional Working Paper No. 3. Dhaka, Bangladesh: Population Council.

Greene, Margaret E. 1997. "Watering the neighbour’s garden: Investing in adolescent girls in India," Regional Working Paper No. 7. New Delhi, India: Population Council.

Hossain, Sharif Md. Ismail, Ismat Bhuiya, and Kim Streatfield. 1996. "Professional blood donors, blood banks and risk of STDs and HIV/AIDS: A study in selected areas in Bangladesh," Regional Working Paper No. 6. Dhaka, Bangladesh: Population Council.

Hull, Valerie J. 1996. "Improving quality of care in family planning: How far have we come?" Regional Working Paper No. 5. Jakarta, Indonesia: Population Council.

Managing Ghana’s Population: An Overview. Accra, Ghana: National Population Council Secretariat.

Mensch, Barbara S., Daniel Bagah, Wesley H. Clark, and Fred Binka. 1998. "The changing social environment for adolescents in the Kassena-Nankana District of northern Ghana: Implications for reproductive behavior," Policy Research Division Working Paper No. 110. New York: Population Council.

National Population Policy (Revised Edition, 1994). Accra, Ghana: National Population Council.

Nazzar, Alex, et al. 1995. "Developing a culturally appropriate family planning program for the Navrongo experiment," Studies in Family Planning 26(6):307–324.

Pachauri, Saroj. 1995. "Defining a reproductive health package for India: A proposed framework," Regional Working Paper No. 4. New Delhi, India: Population Council.

Phillips, James, F., et al. 1997. "The determinants of contraceptive innovation: A case–control study of family planning acceptance in a traditional African society," Policy Research Division Working Paper No. 93. New York: Population Council.

Population Growth and Our Caring Capacity. 1994. Population Council Issues Papers. New York: Population Council.

Seims, Sara. 1998. "Where are we 3+ years after the Cairo ICPD?" Speech presented at the Canberra Meeting of the Australian Reproductive Health Alliance, 11–12 February.

United Nations Development Programme. 1996. Human Development Report 1996. New York: Oxford University Press.

United Nations Development Programme. 1997. Human Development Report 1997. New York: Oxford University Press.

United Nations Population Division. 1998. World Population Monitoring 1996: Selected Aspects of Reproductive Rights and Reproductive Health. New York.

 


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