Fifty Years of Family Planning in the Democratic Republic of the Congo The Dogged Pursuit of Progress

• Main Author: Bertrand, Jane T
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Routledge 2024; Taylor & Francis
• Edition: 1
• Series: Routledge Studies on Gender and Sexuality in Africa
• Subjects: African Studies; Anthropology; Congo; Cultural & Ethnic Studies; DRC; Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning; Family and health; Family planning; Gender studies, gender groups; Geography; Gynaecology and obstetrics; Health, Relationships and Personal development; History; History and Archaeology; Interdisciplinary studies; IPPF; JBSF1 Gender studies: women and girls; JBSF2 Gender studies: men and boys; Marriage & Family; Medical specialties, branches of medicine; Medicine and Nursing; Medicine: general issues; Mobutu Sese Seko; Personal and public health / health education; Philosophy; Philosophy and Religion; Politics and government; Popular medicine and health; Public health and preventive medicine; Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects; Regional / International studies; Regional geography; Social and cultural anthropology; Social and ethical issues; Social and political philosophy; Social groups, communities and identities; Social Science; Social services and welfare, criminology; Social welfare and social services; Social work; Society and culture: general; Society and Social Sciences; Sociology; Sociology and anthropology; Sociology: family and relationships; The 1970s: President Mobutu Authorizes Naissances Désirables; The 1980s: Zaïre Experiences the First Golden Decade for Family Planning; The 1990s: Development Work Paralyzed by Pillages and War; The 2000s: Family Planning – Like the Country – Inches Back to Normalcy; The Belgian Congo (1908–60); The Congo Free State (1885–1908); The First Decade Post-Independence (1960–69); Topics in philosophy; USAID; Women's Studies; Women’s health; Zaire; Family planning; Women's Health; Reproductive Health; Sexual Health; USAID; International Conference on Family Planning; King Leopold II; Congo; Gender Equality; DRC; Zaire; Mobutu Sese Seko; Congo Free State; IPPF

This book chronicles five decades of struggle to introduce family planning into one of the largest, most complex countries in sub-Saharan Africa: the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Interweaving details of major political, social, and economic events into the history of family planning in DR...