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Abstract
The issue of birth control is not a recent one. Birth control measures have been in use in both ancient and modern societies. They were recorded in the papyrus in 1850 B .0. by the ancient Egyptians then through the ages in the Bible, and the Talmud; and by the Arabs, Greek, Romans, Indians and Chinese (1).
In the modern era, more superior measures were invented such as the diaphragm in 1880 and intrauterine devices in 1920’s (i). The use of steroid hormones for the control of fertility began In April 1956 in Rio Pedras in Puerto Rico as reported by Rock, Pincus and Garcia (2). In the last decade, birth control has been heavily stressed by many governmental policy makers and many scientists as a necessary measure to achieve economic and social development in the develcping countries.
Agriculturalists, nutritionists and public health spec ial— ists are concerned with birth control from the point of view of the availability of an adequate food supply for the people of tomorrow. They look to the race between food production and human reproduction with great anxiety. T.R. Malthus (3) stated that while the population increases geometrically, the food supply is increasing arithmetically.
At the international level, authorities are concerned with two aspects, that is, economic development and food availability.