Asia-Pacific Population Journal - Volume 9, Issue 4, 1994

Sri Lanka will have a rapidly ageing population, and this change will require substantial shifts in policies to cater for changing needs.

More attention should be paid to the quality of care in family planning programmes instead of focusing on quantitative aspects.

Norplant is an acceptable method of family planning and should be made available along with other methods of contraception.

The use of contraceptives in Bangladesh has risen steadily over the last two decades. In 1975, the contraceptive prevalence rate (CPR) was 8 per cent and rose to 40 per cent in 1991. The country experienced the steepest increase in CPR between 1975 and 1985: the rates rose from 8 per cent to 25 per cent, a more than three-fold increase in only 10 years.

A strategy to stabilize world population growth and achieve sustainable development by addressing reproductive health needs, rights and responsibilities of individuals was adopted by the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) as it concluded its nine-day meeting at Cairo on 13 September 1994.