Rising demand for birth control rings, beads, excites Osun traditionalists, doctors caution women, urge research - Punch Newspapers

Bola Bamigbola writes about local methods of family planning common among some Osun women

“At the moment, I have many educated ones on my list of clients. Civil servants including lecturers now know about it and patronise us. I attribute the increasing popularity of the methods to testimonies of those who had tested it. It is also relatively cheap and in most cases, no adverse effects on the users.’’

“We also have another one that is in the form of liquid. It is a collection of herbs and the woman must drink it before having sex. If she dutifully obeys the instruction, she will not be pregnant unless she wants to have a baby. I need to add that we don’t have many women coming for this particular type. I think they have the fear that they may forget to take the concoction before sex. Many of them may not also like the taste. Though it is not bitter, many people may still not want it.

Asked to choose his favourite among the methods Elebuibon said, “All of them are good, but the most reliable, from my experience over the years, is the one I usually prepare with ‘oju eyele.’ It is a seed from the bush and the size is relatively bigger than a grain of sorghum. It is not big at all.” It stated that the proportion of the need for family planning satisfied by modern methods, Sustainable Development Goals indicator 3.7.1, was 75.7 per cent globally in 2019, yet less than half of the need for family planning was met in Middle and Western Africa.

The agency said that was the reason every product brought for listing was mandated to bear the ‘The claims have not been evaluated by NAFDAC’ label to warn users. While Elebuibon said his price range for the methods started from N10, 000, Afolabi stated, “we bill our customers whatever we feel they can afford, but it is affordable.”Sunday PUNCH

Moji said she was never told not to use the ring whenever she was observing her monthly period, adding that she observed a few months after that she had an unwanted pregnancy. Another user of the traditional birth control method identified only as 30-year-old Ronke in an interview withRonke, who didn’t disclose her marital status, told our correspondent that she had initially tried three different types of orthodox contraceptives and discarded them because of their side effects on her.

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