Contraceptive services: Counter-reformation and population dynamics

Abstract

World population is expected to reach 7 billion within the next month. It is therefore timely to consider the relationship of contraceptive services, with their focus on the individual, to implications for population dynamics. The various facets include individual choice, human rights, health benefits, socioeconomic implications and the demographic goals of governments. These all have their own rationale, with the common approach that contraception is much needed for fertility control in society, despite certain views that might limit its availability. Many obstacles still need to be overcome for the widespread provision of contraception to become an integral part of comprehensive health services.