An Assessment of Norplant Removal in Indonesia

From 1987 to 1997, approximately four million Indonesian women had a Norplant insertion. Concerns have been raised about the timely removal of the implant within a few days of the user's request or at the end of the recommended five years of use and about the possibility of a large and rapidly...

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Published in:Studies in family planning 1997-12, Vol.28 (4), p.308-316
Main Authors: Fisher, Andrew A., Prihartono, Joedo, Tuladhar, Jayanti, R. Hasan M. Hoesni
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Assessment
Birth Control
Children
Contraception
Contraception Behavior
Contraceptive Agents, Female - therapeutic use
Contraceptive drug implants
Contraceptive implants
Contraceptives
Error of Measurement
Family Planning
Family Planning Services - organization & administration
Female
Females
Health
Health Behavior
Health Care
Health Services Accessibility
Humans
Indonesia
Levonorgestrel - therapeutic use
Medical sector
Norplant
Population
Pregnancy
Proportions
Questionnaires
Removal
Safaris
Termination of Treatment
Volunteerism
Women
Womens Health Care
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Summary:From 1987 to 1997, approximately four million Indonesian women had a Norplant insertion. Concerns have been raised about the timely removal of the implant within a few days of the user's request or at the end of the recommended five years of use and about the possibility of a large and rapidly increasing backlog of removal cases developing. This study of 2,979 Indonesian women in 14 provinces, all of whom had had Norplant inserted five or more years before they were interviewed, reveals that 66 percent had obtained removal by the end of the fifth year of use and 90 percent had done so by the end of the sixth year of use. The data from this study strongly suggest that no large backlog of removal cases exists, particularly after the sixth year of use. The major reason for the underreporting of removals is probably clients' use of nurse/midwives, of caregivers in the private sector, and of mass safari camps, because records from each of these sources are poor or nonexistent.
ISSN:0039-3665
1728-4465
DOI:10.2307/2137861