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It is an
ideology
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It is a
movement
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It is a
philosophy
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It is a
concept
MISSION –
OBJECTIVES
It seeks to
provide reproductive sexual healthcare, usually including the promotion of
accessible means of voluntary fertility control, operation of clinics, conduction
of educational programmes i.e. sex education, conduction of educational and
dissemination of information.
PACKAGED AS
NON-PROFIT TAX-EXEMPT ORGANIZATION
Most
countries including, Nigeria, has her own organization i.e. Planned Parenthood
Organization of Nigeria. They are all members of the International Planned
Parenthood Federation (IPPF)
DEFINITION
“An
organization that gives out information on the planning of the number and
spacing of the birth of one’s children as through the use of birth control
measures.”
HISTORY
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Mostly
rooted in Brownville, Brooklyn, New York, America.
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Margaret
Sanger, a nurse, opened the first birth control clinic in 1916, about 100 years
ago.
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She founded
the “American Birth Control League in 1921.
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Sanger’s
mum, Irish family of eleven children died at 50 from TB.
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Sanger
traveled to Europe to study Birth Control which was illegal.
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The name
changed to Planned Parenthood in 1942.
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Sanger had
the revolutionary idea that women should control their own bodies and thus
their own destinies. Not imaginable at that time.
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In the USA
today, it has about 600 health centers. It is the USA leading provider and
advocate of high quality, affordable healthcare for women, men and young
people.
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It is the
largest provider of sex education in the USA.
Note: In 1916, after opening the
clinic, police raided and shut it down. Three women, Sanger, Byrne and Mindel
were charged with crime of sharing birth control informations. She refused to
pay fine and spent 30 days in jail where she educated other inmates about birth
control.
Sanger later
traveled to the country to share her vision and the Planned Parenthood Movement
began.
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In 1923,
Sanger opened the Birth Control Clinical Research in Manhattan. She also
incorporated the “American Birth Control League.” The two merged to
become the Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA).
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In 1936,
court ruled that birth control devices and informations are no longer obscene and
could be legally distributed in New York, Connecticut and Vermont.
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It took
another 30 years for these rights to be extended to just, married couple (not
singles) only.
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In 1956, the
first large scale human trial of the ‘pill’ was carried out in Pueto Rico.
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In 1960, the
FDA approved sale of the Contraceptive pill in May 9, 1960.
GLOBAL
SPREAD
Global
spread of Sanger’s vision was swift; it spread to India in 1952. Today, even
PPA of America is a member association of IPPF. In 1972, a USA Supreme Court
struck down a Massachusetts statue that banned the distribution of
Contraceptive to married people.
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Thereafter,
anyone – single or married was allowed to get birth control from their doctors.
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In early
1970, a movement for safe and legal abortion emerged.
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A Planned
Parenthood Health Centre in Syracuse, New York was the first Planned Parenthood
health center to offer abortion services.
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In 1973, Roe
Vs Wade case guaranteed the right to safe and legal abortion within 3/12 in all
50 states till today.
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Later,
spousal consent and strict parental concept for minors were struck down.
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Later, no
more public funding for abortion except in cases of rape, incest or endangered
situations.
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Many other
laws and modifications followed including:
1.
Different
state regulating funding for abortion
2.
Seeking
approval for new birth control methods i.e. injection, ring, patch and implant.
3.
Offering HIV
testing in communities.
4.
In 1999,
Plan B “Emergency Contraception” was approved (Morning after pill).
5.
In 1996, Planned
Parenthood launched “www.plannedparenthood.org” which made expert medical and
sexual health information accessible online.
6.
In 2000,
mifepristone was approved by FDA for safe and effective option for abortion.
7.
In 2005, Planned
Parenthood started providing HRT for transgender patients.
8.
In 2006, HPV
vaccine was approved and Planned Parenthood health centres began providing this
life-saving cancer prevention method.
9.
In 2009,
Obama overturned the global GAG rule and reaffirmed America’s commitment to
sexual and reproductive health. Insurance cover now includes birth control and
preventive cover i.e. cancer screening and STD testing.
10. 60 years later, the charity is a
Federation of 152 member association working in 172 countries. It runs 65,000
service points worldwide.
PLANNED
PARENTHOOD FOUNDATIONS OF NIGERIA
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It is a
private non-profit organization founded in late 1950.
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Mission was
to provide adoption of child-spacing and contraceptive practices among
individuals and couples.
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Over the
years, PPFN has evolved from this narrow role to a broader, more comprehensive
missions including implications and needs arising from ICPD, the Beijing
International Women Conference, adolescent reproductive health and HIV/AIDS
pandemic.
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PPFN has
recently introduced a new identity (LOGO) in Abuja in February 2018.
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Current
emphasis emerging from the recent NEC of PPFN is on IDPs.
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PPFN is ever
expanding its scope via regular meeting with bodies such as UNFPD and ECOWAS.
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Its
activities are centered on strengthening women’s right to sexual and
reproductive health.
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Nigeria
(PPFN) also had a prominent meeting recently with Child Investment Fund
Foundation (CIFF).
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Nigeria
(PPFN) also signed a partnership agreement with the Society for Family Health.
The project aims at increasing service delivery or contraceptives mix and
primary healthcare delivery in Lagos and Kaduna States via community pharmacies
and also patients and proprietary medicine vendors in Lagos and Kaduna states.
GENERAL
SERVICES OF PPFN
·
Abortion
services
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Planned
Parenthood provides factual, non-judgmental informations about your options
along with safe and compassionate abortion services.
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Abortion
referrals
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Birth
control
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Emergency
contraception (morning-after pill)
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General Healthcare
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HIV services
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LGBT
services: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual Queer Intersex Patients. There is a Hormone
therapy for trans-gender patients.
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Men’s health
services i.e. for cancer, STD, fertility, sexual dysfunction, birth control and
routine checkups.
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Patients
education
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Pregnancy
testing and services.
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STD testing,
treatment and vaccines
WOMEN
SERVICES
i.e. birth
control
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STD tests
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Cancer
screening
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Pregnancy
related services
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Reproductive
and sexual health such as pap test, cancer screen such as vaginal infections.
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Breast
examination
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Colposcopy
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Inconfinence
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Mammogram
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Menopause
testing and treatment
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Female
sexual dysfunction
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