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Mudede's contraceptives claims dismissed
25 Jul 2015 at 09:18hrs | Views
Registrar General Tobaiwa Mudede's claims that contraceptives have serious negative side effects on women has been dismissed by the government because his claims were based on unproven research findings.
Mudede who has no medical background, has been advocating for the ban of contraceptives arguing that they were not good for women and had impacted negatively on the country's population growth which has remained stagnant at 13 million.
In a joint statement with the Zimbabwe National Family Planning Council on Tuesday, the government said contraceptives did not cause birth defects or infertility, thus the allegation that they retarded population growth was misplaced.
However, the government said like any other medicines or drugs, there could be side effects experienced with the use of contraceptives in the minority of users.
It said while natural methods of family planning promulgated by Mudede could be used as alternatives, the risk of failure was very high thereby putting women at risk of having unplanned pregnancies.
Mudede who has no medical background, has been advocating for the ban of contraceptives arguing that they were not good for women and had impacted negatively on the country's population growth which has remained stagnant at 13 million.
However, the government said like any other medicines or drugs, there could be side effects experienced with the use of contraceptives in the minority of users.
It said while natural methods of family planning promulgated by Mudede could be used as alternatives, the risk of failure was very high thereby putting women at risk of having unplanned pregnancies.
Source - chronicle
