A high burden of infectious diseases. Lack of provision of family planning allowing a women to decide when to start and end having children and how to space her children.

VOA: special.2009.10.19

Dr Zulu also said that evidence accumulated over the last decade showed that overall, African women were having more children than they wanted - which gave politicians an incentive to increase family planning provision.

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Inspectors from Ofsted criticised the overall planning of provision for 16 to 19 year olds in the London boroughs of Tower Hamlets and Lambeth - and in Newcastle and Coventry.

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Women have traditionally led the fight to improve access to family planning and the provision and quality of maternal health services.

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