%0 Journal Article
%T Comment les Populations Rurales Ivoiriennes Per oivent-elles la Planification Familiale?
%A Aka Kouam¨¦
%A John Amouzou
%A Pepin Paliku Pimbo
%J African Journal of Reproductive Health
%D 2001
%I Women's Health and Action Research Centre (WHARC)
%X How do Ivorien rural populations perceive family planning. The government of C te d'Ivoire has recently adopted its population policy. One of the objectives of this policy is to reduce the high rate of population growth through family planning. The success of the family planning program will depend not only on the strength of effort to be deployed, but also on the acceptability of the idea of family planning to the population, given the pronatalist nature of the society, especially in rural areas. The aim of this study is to assess the acceptability of family planning to the rural population. The study is based on a survey conducted in rural areas of the country on various issues including the social representation of family planning. Analyses rely on simple methods such as frequency tables and cross tabulation. The results show that rural populations, somehow, have an open mind towards family planning. They are interested in using family planning services if they are provided with them. However, implementation of family planning programs in rural areas requires some precautions ? birth limitation should not be included among the objectives, at least at the beginning of the program; a preliminary advocacy program at the level of rural community leaders is required; there is need to adapt program strategies to the level of infrastructutral development of the villages; etc. (Afr J Reprod Health 2001; 5[2]: 116-129) R¨¦SUM¨¦ Apr¨¨s s'¨ºtre longtemps oppos¨¦e aux programmes ¨¦largis de planification familiale, la C te a adopt¨¦ en mars 1997 sa d¨¦claration de politique de population. Elle entend ma triser la croissance naturelle de sa population ¨¤ travers un programme ¨¦labor¨¦ de planification familiale. La r¨¦ussite de ce programme d¨¦pend non seulement de la port¨¦e des efforts a fournir par le gouvernement, mais ¨¦galement de la pr¨¦diposition de la population ¨¤ l'accepter, en raison du caract¨¨re fortement pronataliste de la soci¨¦t¨¦ ivoirienne, notamment en milieu rural. Pour ¨¦valuer les chances de succ¨¦s d'un tel programme dans ce milieu, il nous a sembl¨¦ important d'y ¨¦tudier ce que la planification familiale repr¨¦sente pour les populations. Nous avons conduit, ¨¤ cette fin et pour d'autres objectifs, une enqu¨ºte intitul¨¦e "development rural et fecondite en Cote d'Ivoire". L'enqu¨ºte comporte un volet quantitative et un volet qualitative. Cette ¨¦tude pr¨¦sente les r¨¦sultants relatifs au th¨¨me de la repr¨¦sentation sociale de la planification familiale. Elle repose sur des m¨¦thods d'analyse simples comme les tableaux de fr¨¦quencies et les tableaux croises ou les graphiques issus de ceux-ci. Les r¨¦sultats des analyses effectu¨¦es indiquent que les populations rurales ivoiriennes manifestant une certaine ouverture par rapport ¨¤ la planification familiale et seraient dispos¨¦es ¨¤ recourir aux services en la mati¨¨re si ceux-ci ¨¦taient disponibles. Toutefois, la mise en oeuvre d'un programme de planification familiale en milieu rural ivoirien doit se faire avec certaines
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