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The emphasis placed on reproductive health by the 1995 International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo may inhibit family planning programs; the 1-2% of foreign aid funds designated for family planning will be used for more comprehensive, expensive programs. Camouflaging family planning as part of maternal and child health programs, or linking it to education and economic development prerequisites, began with the Bucharest Conference in the 1970s. It is politically driven by the fear that governments of developing countries will consider foreign assistance for birth control to be unwanted interference or, at worst, a form of genocide. However, Rei Ravenholt and colleagues at the US Agency for International Development (USAID) have demonstrated the impact of contraceptive availability on contraceptive prevalence, fertility rates, and human well-being. The success of family planning programs in Thailand, Indonesia, Colombia, and Bangladesh has shown that contraception is, perhaps, the most effective means of improving maternal and child health. Deborah Maine has documented the effect of birth spacing on infant mortality. Nearly 6 million clients of social marketing programs in 42 developing countries in 1994 received inexpensive condoms at convenient locations; family health was improved by birth spacing, and women were protected from sexually transmitted disease (STD) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Demographic and Health Survey data for Bangladesh in the 1990s showed a dramatic increase in contraceptive prevalence, in spite of stagnant economic development and the status of women there. Although reproductive health is important, it should be funded separately.
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