{"id":3039,"date":"2018-01-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-09T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/news\/2018\/01\/imams-support-family-planning-in-senegal\/"},"modified":"2024-05-08T12:57:05","modified_gmt":"2024-05-08T11:57:05","slug":"imams-support-family-planning-in-senegal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/news\/2018\/01\/imams-support-family-planning-in-senegal\/","title":{"rendered":"Imams support family planning in Senegal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-cover alignfull is-light curved-bottom\"><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-background-dim-0 has-background-dim\"><\/span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" src=\"https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/pills-1354782_1920_0.jpg\" class=\"wp-block-cover__image-background wp-post-image\" alt=\"Pills banner\" data-object-fit=\"cover\" srcset=\"https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/pills-1354782_1920_0.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/pills-1354782_1920_0-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/pills-1354782_1920_0-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/pills-1354782_1920_0-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/pills-1354782_1920_0-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-cover-is-layout-flow\"><h1 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-post-title\">Imams support family planning in Senegal<\/h1><\/div><\/div><div class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2018-01-09T00:00:00+00:00\">9 January 2018<\/time><\/div>\n<p class=\"lead\">Public health officials and NGOs in Senegal turn to mosques to expand the provision of family planning,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/World\/Africa\/2018\/0104\/In-Senegal-family-planning-finds-a-key-ally-imams\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Christian Science Monitor<\/a>\u00a0reports. A key first step, results indicate.<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1732\" height=\"1154\" src=\"https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Senegal_francesca-noemi-marconi-NJE5Muz1gSo-unsplash_resize.jpg\" alt=\"Senegalese women\" class=\"wp-image-4210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Senegal_francesca-noemi-marconi-NJE5Muz1gSo-unsplash_resize.jpg 1732w, https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Senegal_francesca-noemi-marconi-NJE5Muz1gSo-unsplash_resize-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Senegal_francesca-noemi-marconi-NJE5Muz1gSo-unsplash_resize-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Senegal_francesca-noemi-marconi-NJE5Muz1gSo-unsplash_resize-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Senegal_francesca-noemi-marconi-NJE5Muz1gSo-unsplash_resize-1536x1023.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1732px) 100vw, 1732px\" \/><figcaption>Senegalese women<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n<p>Senegal is over 90% Muslim and has a fertility rate of 4.8, nearly\u00a0double the global average. It has one of the lowest rates of contraceptive use in the world. Only half of the married women who would like to use modern contraception are able to. Access to contraceptives is limited, as is the knowledge of how to use them. Since 2011, the number of married Senegalese women\u00a0using modern contraceptives\u00a0has doubled from 12 per cent to about 23 per cent, according to the Senegalese statistics and demography agency. Religion is not the only factor influencing contraceptive use, but gaining support from religious leaders has proven vital, public health officials and NGOs explain.<\/p>\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cAny time we come to a town, the first thing we do is go to a religious leader to explain what we are doing, so that they can become our link with the population,\u201d says Mich\u00e8le Diop Niang, program director for Marie Stopes International Senegal, a family planning NGO. \u201cIt\u2019s very important because where we work, if people don\u2019t have the support of a religious leader, they won\u2019t use family planning at all.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Modern methods for old practices<\/h2>\n\n<p>The notion that modern contraception is a continuation of traditional Islamic practices has been key. It is based on several passages from the Quran that instruct women to breastfeed for at least two years \u2013 a natural, albeit imperfect, form of birth control.<\/p>\n\n<p>\u201cFamily planning is just a new word for what we have always done according to Islam,\u201d says Seyni Cisse, an imam in the southern city of Ziguinchor.<\/p>\n\n<p>A major turning point was five years ago when an influential imam almost lost one of his wives to childbirth. The midwife told them that they had to stop having children or else she could die. Spacing births makes mothers stronger, reducing the number of child and maternal deaths.<\/p>\n\n<p>Many Islamic leaders continue to oppose contraceptive use and others who do support it are clear it only concerns married women in monogamous relationships. Read more on population and religion\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.populationmatters.org\/the-issue\/population\/religion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The African challenge<\/h2>\n\n<p>Africa is where the<a href=\"\/the-facts\/the-numbers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a0greatest population growth<\/a>\u00a0will take place over the next century. While\u00a0fertility rates are dropping\u00a0across sub-Saharan Africa, they are not falling consistently. In addition to problems of access to family planning and cultural or religious opposition to contraception, in some parts of Africa, desire for a large family remains a strong influencing factor.<\/p>\n\n<p>Creative\u00a0family planning approaches\u00a0are having success in addressing these problems but the very high proportion of young people in Africa in comparison to other parts of the world means far more people there are of childbearing age, counterbalancing the falls in fertility per person.<\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Family planning for sustainable development<\/h2>\n\n<p>Among the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sustainabledevelopment.un.org\/topics\/sustainabledevelopmentgoals\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">United Nations Sustainable Development Goals<\/a>, which were adopted in September 2015, is Target 3.7: \u201cBy 2030, ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health-care services, including for family planning, information and education, and the integration of reproductive health into national strategies and programmes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p>Access to family planning services is fundamental to slowing and reversing unsustainable population growth.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-popmat-share\"><a class=\"fb-share\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fpopulationmatters.org%2Fnews%2F2018%2F01%2Fimams-support-family-planning-in-senegal%2F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><div>\n  \nShare<\/div><\/a><a class=\"tw-share\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpopulationmatters.org%2Fnews%2F2018%2F01%2Fimams-support-family-planning-in-senegal%2F&amp;text=Imams+support+family+planning+in+Senegal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><div>\n  \nTweet<\/div><\/a><a class=\"li-share\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/shareArticle?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpopulationmatters.org%2Fnews%2F2018%2F01%2Fimams-support-family-planning-in-senegal%2F&amp;text=Imams+support+family+planning+in+Senegal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><div>\n  \nPost<\/div><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-light-blue-background-color has-background alignfull is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Related content<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-popmat-grid grid grid-3\">\n\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-popmat-post-teaser\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/religion-and-population\/\">\n\t\t\t\t<h3>Religion and population<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Religion-768x576.jpeg\" class=\"wp-image-2194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Religion-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Religion-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Religion.jpeg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/img>\n\t\t\t\t<p>Most religions have been around a long time. Their core beliefs and precepts were developed at a time when the human population was much lower than it is today. All&#8230;<\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Public health officials and NGOs in Senegal turn to mosques to expand the provision of family planning,\u00a0The Christian Science Monitor\u00a0reports. A key first step, results indicate. 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