Int'l agencies support family planning<\/p>\n
KUPANG, East Nusa Tenggara: Four international agencies are
\nproviding aid to support the implementation of family planning
\nand population programs in East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) thus year,
\nthe provincial planned parenthood board has announced in Palu.<\/p>\n
The international agencies involved are the UN Family Planning
\nand Population Agency (UNFPA), Australia's aid agency AUSAID,
\nAmerica's USAID and Germany's JTZ, which make available
\ncontraceptives to family planning participants in the region.<\/p>\n
UNFPA, which last year also provided aid to NTT, guaranteed a
\nsupply of pills and injection ampules for the first quarter of
\nthis year, in view of the many dropouts among users of the two
\nmethods.<\/p>\n
According to the provincial planned parenthood coordinating
\nboard (BKKBN) in Kupang, the foreign agencies extend their aid to
\nthe region in connection with the implementation of
\ndecentralization and regional autonomy, in which the central
\nBKKBN delegates its authority to regional offices. --Antara<\/p>",
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