In Laos, the difficult access to contraception

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Published on : 20/12/2022 – 08:00

In the province of Oudomxay, in northern Laos, one in five young women becomes a mother at 15. © Igor Strauss/RFI

For more than ten years, the Lao government, with the help of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), has launched a program to decentralize contraceptive methods.

The use of contraceptives has been authorized since 1993 in Laos, but they were only available in the capital Vientiane and the big cities, while the most remote countrysides had the highest birth and maternal mortality rates.

Report ofIgor Strauss, in the province of Oudomxay, in the north of Laos.

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