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Speakers urge people to adopt birth spacing
Representatives of government departments, NGOs explained the benefits of birth spacing
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Pakistan’s population predicament
Pakistan has been firmly saddled with a very high fertility rate of 3.73 for the past four years
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Birth control can help curb poverty, illiteracy and unemployment: experts
Speakers stress on importance of raising awareness about the use of contraceptives, family planning
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Abortion as birth control
Women’s reproductive rights have been heavily neglected, and it is time the matter was taken to the courts
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Desperate measures: Pakistani women seek abortions as birth control
Only around 35 per cent of Pakistani women use any form of non-abortive birth control
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Trial for first male contraceptive gel opens
Expected to be as successful as hormonal birth control for women
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Judge rules for Trump administration in suit over family-planning program shift
Three planned Parenthood organisations along with the National Family Planning Association filed lawsuits
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Notre Dame students sue school, White House over birth control policy
The lawsuit states that a settlement between the Trump administration and the school violates the Affordable Care Act
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Give world's poorest women control over sex, birth, to cut inequality - UN
Cambodia, Senegal and Rwanda have made the biggest strides since 2005 in reducing inequalities
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Egypt promotes birth control to fight rapid population growth
The country is already the most populous in the Arab world with 93 million citizens
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