30 Nov 2011

SENEGAL / FAMILY PLANNING WRAP

As the largest family planning conference in history kicked off in Dakar, Senegal on Tuesday, the executive director of the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) Babatunde Osotimehin noted that Africa “continues to be the region of the world that’s seems to lag behind the most” in family planning, maternal health and child health. UNFPA / APATV

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STORY: SENEGAL / FAMILY PLANNING WRAP
TRT: 2.08
SOURCE: UNFPA / APATV
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / FRENCH / NATS
 
DATELINE: 29 NOVEMBER 2011, DAKAR, SENEGAL
 
1.Wide shot, Dakar city
2.Wide shot, conference room
3.Med shot, delegates
4.SOUNDBITE (English) Babatunde Osotimehin, Executive Director, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA:
"Africa continues to be the region of the world that's seems to lag behind the most. Family planning, maternal health, child health, whatever you look, that is the burden that Africa carries."
5.Med shot, delegates
6.SOUNDBITE (English) Babatunde Osotimehin, Executive Director, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA:
 "When you look at a world of 7 billion, 1.8 billion of them are young people, 90 percent of them live in the developing world. If you look at the demography of any country in this part of the world, 60 percent 70 percent are under his age of 30, and so what they were talking about is so real, how can we plan, how can we speak about these things, how can we move ahead without engaging them? The issues reproductive and family planning, the issues of access, the issues of equity have to include young people."
7.Zoom out, Osotimehin, and delegates holding 7 billion banner
8.Wide shot, Dakar city
9.VOXPOP (French) Astou Diop, Biology Student:
"Some husbands do not approve of family planning and therefore do not allow their wives to use it. Also some young women chose family planning without really knowing what it is about, or if it is good for women or if it can have side effects in the future." 
10.Wide shot, Dakar city
11.VOXPOP (French) Ina Sane, resident: 
"Young people do not seek for family planning; it is true that there are no enough strategies targeting them.  They sure talk about it, but they should adopt it increasingly to avoid problems such us early pregnancies." 
11.Wide shot, Dakar city

STORYLINE:

A senior United Nations official said that world leaders must invest more in voluntary family planning programmes because they not only save and improve the lives of women and children, but also reduce poverty and empower people.

As the largest family planning conference in history kicked off in Dakar, Senegal on Tuesday (29 Nov), the executive director of the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) Babatunde Osotimehin noted that Africa "continues to be the region of the world that's seems to lag behind the most" in family planning, maternal health, and child health.

Osotimehin, a keynote speaker at the conference, stressed the importance of including young people in the family planning equation. He pointed out that in a world of 7 billion people 1.8 billion of them are young and 90 percent of them live in the developing world.

He asked "how can we move ahead without engaging them?" and remarked that "the issues of reproductive and family planning, the issues of access, the issues of equity have to include young people."

More than 2,000 scientists, experts and policy-makers are attending the four-day 2011 International Conference on Family Planning (ICFP) to discuss the latest research and programmes aimed at advancing family health and increasing access to family planning.

Currently an estimated 215 million women living in developing countries do not have access to modern family planning and the latest statistics show that an average of only 17 per cent of married women of reproductive age in sub-Saharan Africa use contraception.