Monday 16 September 2013

Population of women and men in the Middle East

Children is a significant character in the family. They bring joy and fullfillment for parents, and young couples want to have children after marriage. Many young man and woman in the Middle East countries, in particular in urban areas engage in sexual relations and have a temporary marriages which is known as urfi in Egypt, Lebanon, and Iran. At present time, urfi marriages among young urban people are secrets which means limited legal protection for women and children.

Middle East countries have a growing population of people in late teens and early twenties. Seventeen million of youth aging 15 to 24 lives in Egypt, and is growing by 2050. Half of these youth are young women who are at risk of an unintended pregnancy who need a health provider for safe motherhood and avoid unintended pregnancies in the region.

An increased population of women and men in the Middle East region are using contraception because of the immediate availability of family planning services. Half of married women in Iran, Egypt, and Yemen use a modern contraceptive method.

For various reasons, women from poor family have an unintended pregnancy compared to a wealthy women. Poor woman cannot decide independently about using contraceptive method because they have less access to family planning information and services. In general, educated women  become pregnant later compared to those who are less educated. They are well informed about family planning services.

In most Arab countries, majority of women reported that their husbands have the final say for the contraceptive method. The national survey in Egypt revealed that 26 percent of women stopped contraceptive method after using it for 12 months., and 8 percent use another method. Twenty nine percent who are using the method became pregnant because of contraceptive failure with the method itself.

Oral contraceptive are 100 percent effective when properly managed. Male condoms, even with proper use all the time, sometimes fail because breakage. IUD's and sterilization can be seen 100 percent effective. The Family Planning Program provided by the Iranian government is such in a high level of planning program. Among married women, using contraception, trusted pill, 23 percent preferred
female sterilization, and 4 percent have a husband who has been sterilized.

An international data from 14 Arab countries revealed that an increase of 2 percent of contraceptive prevalence would result in decreased fertility, from 37 births per woman to 3.3 births per woman, and almost 3,500 decreased maternal deaths.

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