The name of the article that I read
was called “South
Sudan Women Choose Family Planning, Longer Lives.” This article
took place in Juba, South Sudan in the continent of Africa. It talked
about how this country lacks education and health, and women marry
early. Also, since the country is in poverty, the maternal mortality
rate is the highest in the world. The average woman in Sudan has
seven children. Agencies in the country are now working to help women
live longer. In this article, they stated that Sudan has one the
lowest availability of contraceptives coming in at 1.7 percent.
Also, they said that early pregnancies have increased from one-fifth
to one-third of teens. Mothers in this article were getting a birth
control that allows you not have have children for five years. These
mothers said, that families are happier when there is a gap between
children. This birth control will allow them to have a gap between
children. Another mother said that, it is very hard for her to
support her five children due to her husband's job as a soldier. She
said that with the money that he does make, she pays school fees for
the children. If she gets a job working from sun up to sun down, she
can make 100 dollars a month. The agency family planning has started
three programs in Sudan for contraceptives. They said that family
planning is empowering women and girls of reproductive ages. They
hope to help lower maternal mortality rates.
This
article was very interesting. One thing that was interesting was that
seven children is the average amount of children that women have,
which is really high. Another interesting thing was the hard work
that they do for a little bit of money. I think that family planning
is doing a good thing for these families in Sudan. Hopefully, since
they are over there helping, maternal mortality rate will drop down.
This was a very good article.
12:31
11-9-12
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