But the Population Council, funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development, and assisted by Pakistani and international partners, promoted family planning as a means of ensuring healthy birth spacing to protect women and infants.
Birth spacing was part of the set of means to regulate fertility and was usually motivated by a desire to control family size.
Promoting women's health, literacy, education, and reproductive choices (including contraception and birth spacing) are intrinsically valuable, and are also important means for lowering rates of preterm birth and stillbirth.
Nevertheless a role for vaccines undoubtedly exists as an aid to birth spacing, particularly in developing countries, and as a non-surgical means of inducing sterility in men.
It is recognized as a safe, acceptable, and effective means to increase access to family planning method choices and to promote healthy birth spacing among underserved populations with poor access to health facilities.
We are poor and having more children means we will become poorer and poorer so we decided to use family planning, birth spacing (Chuk 18 25 yr olds).
Which makes a recent research paper, "Birth Spacing and Sibling Outcomes" — showing that spacing siblings more than two years apart means better scores on reading and math tests for the older children — of largely theoretical interest for me personally.
Posters promote "birth spacing," not "birth control".
Previous studies of birth spacing have been largely focused on health at birth and infant mortality.
In 2014, approximately 40 Islamic religious leaders approved birth spacing for women in Pakistan.
