Vasectomy as an Integral Option for Family Planning in Kenya
Kenya is taking steps to address its health workforce shortage and the gender imbalance in contraceptive availability and use.
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Boniface Sebikali was the Senior Clinical Training Advisor, Technical Leadership, at IntraHealth International. Since 1987, Sebikali has been training physicians and health workers around the world, helping them to provide the highest-quality services and to comply with local and international best-practice protocols. Training, coaching, and mentoring clinicians and supporting the quality of care in Africa, he says, is a way to save and improve lives and give back to his home continent. Read more
Kenya is taking steps to address its health workforce shortage and the gender imbalance in contraceptive availability and use.
What does the health workforce have to do with family planning and contraceptive rates? A lot, it turns out.
From politicians to community and international leaders, we should all be more engaged in helping couples make informed choices about family size.
Last month, a new World Health Organization publication compared current data to data from the early 1990s on the readiness, willingness, and ability of women to use modern contraceptives in sub-Saharan Africa.