No pamphlet or public service ad is more likely to encourage birth control than these MTV tableaus of maternal boredom, fatigue and loneliness.
The ban came despite a government initiative to encourage birth control in Pakistan, a conservative Muslim country of 190 million people where talking about sex in public is taboo.
Their task, in turn, was to encourage birth registration among community members in the selected chiefdoms.
In determining how to encourage birth preparedness among pregnant women, it is important to ascertain their birth location preference early on.
In addition, health-care providers and information registrars must be trained – and supported by mass awareness campaigns to encourage birth registration.
Niamey, Niger, 15 May 2009 – In the courtyard of Gabougoura's primary school, students are extremely busy: as a national communication campaign to encourage birth registration kicks off, they are organising educational activities to promote birth registrations at the school level.
They can also include mass media campaigns encouraging women to seek antenatal care early in pregnancy; food fortification such as micro-nutrients; marketing approaches such as bed nets; and school and workplace efforts to encourage birth spacing or delay the first birth.
I thought the opposite, because I expected the birth rate for teenagers on welfare to go down once the system stopped encouraging births.
Earlier, another had been sent to San Diego Zoo, which has a proven track record of encouraging births among a related species, the southern white.
In the past, conservatives have leaned toward "abstinence only" policies for dealing with problems like teenage pregnancy and heroin addiction, while liberals have been open to "harm reduction" strategies like encouraging birth control and dispensing methadone.
