With the advent of the oral contraceptive pill, improved accessibility to other forms of contraception, and later the risk of HIV/AIDS, society's view of contraception has evolved and continues to do so.
Understanding clients' access to family planning (FP) methods extends beyond individual or household characteristics, contraceptive security, physical accessibility and economic issues, to also include restrictions or assumptions about the client that a service provider may impose on the provision of these methods [ 1- 3].
The major indicators of health and family-planning were: (a) awareness about services available from FWAs; (b) frequency of contacts with FWAs; (c) number of desired children; (d) unmet contraceptive need; (e) accessibility to H&FWCs and SCs; and (f) use of contraceptive methods.
Despite the fact that different modern contraceptives exist world wide, the problem of unintended pregnancy still exists, which could be due to gap in awareness, negative attitudes towards contraception, low accessibility or as a result of sexual assault.
There was an indication of greater accessibility to contraceptive services, which was reflected in more frequent contacts between the FWAs and their clients within the last two months (OR = 0.79; CI 0.63 0.98) and a higher use of SCs and H&FWCs in 1996 than in 1995.
Hence, access in terms of increasing availability and accessibility of contraceptives as well as provision of compassionate care to FSWs is crucial to reduce unintended pregnancy in this group.
To describe the relationship between the availability and accessibility of contraceptives in Iowa pharmacies and the extent to which pharmacists act as an information source regarding contraceptives.
Two important legal decisions in the 1930s helped increase the accessibility of contraceptives.
Thus, the study did not support the hypothesis that fertility transition has occurred in Bangladesh without changes in socioeconomic and cultural circumstances and solely due to greater availability and accessibility to modern contraceptive methods.
The importance of contraception in regulating fertility behavior, however, is contested by evolutionary and economic demographers, not least because the European demographic transition was apparently initiated by coitus interruptus and because such models fail to explain the demand driving the invention and accessibility of modern contraceptive technology (Borgerhoff Mulder 1998; Lee 2003).
