Investing in family planning is Kenya’s sure way of achieving sustainable development goals

NAIROBI, KENYA: Today, September 26th 2016, Kenya joins the family of nations in marking the World Contraceptive Day. This is important since Kenya was one of the first Sub Saharan African Countries to adopt progressive family planning policies in 1963. Experts have attributed Kenya’s current development status in almost all the sectors to the remarkable increase in use of modern methods of family planning (FP) from a low of 18 per cent in 1989 to 53 per cent in 2014.

Generally, family planning enables women and their families to avoid unintended pregnancies, delay childbearing, space births, and achieve desired family size. By preventing unintended pregnancies, family planning also reduces the number of abortions in any population.