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Family Planning
In Arunachal Pradesh it seems that Any method is having more acceptability with 52% and even in
rural areas it is more than 50%. The data indicates that West Siang district record highest by
achieving 68% and East Kameng with a low of 36% among all districts relating to Any Method. The
said method is followed by Any modern method with 49% which is followed by female sterilization
with 30.6%; use of Pill is 10.9%; use of IUD is 3.7%; use of condom is 3.1%; use of any traditional
method is 2.9%; Male sterilization is 0.5% as the State average respectively.
Focus to be given to adopt Male sterilization techniques as it records very poor percentage. But, at
the same time more acceptable family planning methods also needs to be given attention which
continuously required to be provided as a option so to enhance the percentage and to reach to its
optimum. Further, more mass awareness generation campaigns on Total unmet need (%) to be
organized at various levels being ignorance emerge as one of the root cause in far flung
topographically challenged villages of Arunachal Pradesh.
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