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answer text: Mr. Nigel Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what assistance his Department has provided toKenya in promoting family planning; what has been the birth rate for each of the last five years for which figures are available;and if he will make a statement. [15379]Dr. Liam Fox: The crude birth rate in 1989 was 47 per thousand population. By 1994 it is estimated that the rate had declined to 42per thousand population. Details of British development assistance for family planning are given in the table._________________________________________________________________________________________________.Year Project Description Total cost £ million1988-94 Population III Clinic development, training 4.6programmes, NGO support1993-94 Emergency supply of 50 million condoms and 200,000 1.02contraceptives vaginal foaming tablets1994 Family planning services Injectable contraceptives, 2.0disposable gloves, familyplanning clinical equipmentsets, intra-uterine copperdevice insertion kits1995-96 Family planning bridging 1 million doses injectable 1.45project contraception (DepoProvera) andup to 30 million condoms1996-97 Contraceptive supply 1.1 million doses injectable 1.94contraception (DepoProvera) andup to 40 million condoms1996-97 Family planning interim support To supply 2.45 million doses 3.5project DepoProvera and 5 millioncondoms plus support to eightNGOs._________________________________________________________________________________________________.We have recently committed an additional £11 million for strengthening reproductive health services in Kenya, for expenditure overthe next five years.
answer given date: 1997-02-11+00:00
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