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by Rhona Mahony. Many women in developing countries tell surveyors that they want to have no more children or that they would like to space the births of their future children. Yet, in some countries, over half of those women have never used modern contraception. Private clinics, pharmacies, and public clinics in many developing countries now sell birth control cheaply. Why aren’t women taking advantage of it? A cleverly designed experiment in Lusaka, the capital of Zambia, has found one reason. Husbands want more children than their wives do. When wives in Lusaka had a chance to get contraceptives that their husbands didn’t know about, 23 percent more went to the public clinic’s family planning nurse and 38 percent more chose a form of birth control that could be hidden from their husbands, such as an injectable contraceptive. The result: those women had 57 percent fewer unwanted births.
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