Family Planning Units One to Four: Population Trends in Kenya, the History of Modern Family Planning, Benefits, IUCDs, Implants and Sterilization

Family planning units one to four, opened by the definitions of terms and the population trends, fertility and mortality data for Kenya and the effects of a large population on the family, the community and the economy. The history of modern family planning and the government and donor participation in it lead into the benefits to the child, the mother and the nation. The methods then follow in detail - contraceptive implants, copper and hormone-releasing intrauterine devices with their timing of insertion, follow-up, side effects and their management, and voluntary surgical contraception in the laparoscopic and minilap tubal ligation and vasectomy forms - each with the medical eligibility criteria categories, the advantages, limitations and the misconceptions that counselling has to answer.