CM approves new population policy

Under the new policy, govt has to take necessary measures to enhance the CPR from 30% in 2015 to 45% in 2020


Our Correspondent August 26, 2016
Under the policy, the population welfare department has to increase efforts to reduce unmet needs for family planning from 21% to 15%. PHOTO: NNI

KARACHI: Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah has approved the Sindh Population Policy 2016 under which the Contraceptive Prevalence Rate (CPR) will be increased from 30% to 40% by 2020.

The chief minister (CM) said the population policy 2016 envisages promoting a prosperous, healthy, educated and knowledge-based society where all citizens are provided opportunities to access information and quality services about family planning and reproductive healthcare.

Under the new policy, the government has to take necessary measures, particularly awareness drives, to enhance the CPR from 30% in 2015 to 45% in 2020.

The policy aims to achieve universal access to safe and quality reproductive family planning services by 2020. It will be used to increase access to family planning and reproductive health services to the most remote areas of the province by 2017.

Under the policy, the population welfare department has to increase efforts to reduce unmet needs for family planning from 21% to 15%.

The policy also calls for attaining a decrease in the fertility level from 3.9 births per woman in 2013 to 3 births per woman by 2020 as well as ensuring contraceptive commodity security up to 80% at all public services outlets. Shah approved a Rs1 billion budget for the implementation of the new policy in five years. The department may explore the option of getting donors for additional financing, he said.

Published in The Express Tribune, August 27th, 2016.

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