Tunisia, like many other less developed countries, runs the risk of producing people faster than it can produce the food to feed them. With a population increasing 2.6 percent a year and threatening the development effort, Tunisia requested and received assistance in family planning from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). Earlier, the Tunisian Government legalized abortions for women with more than five living children, abolished restrictions on the sale of contraceptives and enacted laws sanctioning a wide range of family planning activities. USAID has made almost half a million dollars available for family planning programs in Tunisia. An adviser from the Agency is spending full time on the problem; information and contraceptive devices are being distributed, and Tunisians are receiving training in the United States in family planning. A young Tunisian woman holds her newborn baby next to her in the maternity ward of a hospital in Bizerte. She will receive information and instruction in family planning during her post-natal period.
| Date Taken: | 08.12.2015 |
| Date Posted: | 08.25.2015 11:27 |
| Photo ID: | 2117705 |
| VIRIN: | 150812-O-ZZ999-172 |
| Resolution: | 16000x12788 |
| Size: | 22.34 MB |
| Location: | BIZERTE, TN |
| Web Views: | 94 |
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