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Saps and Female Reproductive Health in Kenya

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 August 2021

Eunice K. Kamara
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Since the 1980s, the world has experienced a number of economic recessions. As would be expected, developing countries have borne the brunt of the resultant economic crisis. It is estimated, for example, that the total debt of the developing world rose from $562 billion in 1982 to $1,020 billion in 1988.’ Many of the developing countries are still on the verge of economic collapse, unable to service accumulated foreign debts. Various measures were taken by the developed world in an attempt to revive the fallen global economy. These measures included the introduction of Structural Adjustment Programmes (SAPs) which aimed at (among other targets) reducing national public expenditures and effecting a shift “from a trade deficit to a trade surplus or at least, a reduction of the size of the trade deficit, at least in part to service the debt.”

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African Issues , Volume 25 , Issue 2 , 1997 , pp. 16 - 19
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Copyright © African Studies Association 1997 

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Eunice K. Kamara is with the Department of Religion, Moi University in Eldoret, Kenya.

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2. UN Division for the Advancement of Women, “Women, Debt and Adjustment” in World Survey on the Role of Women in Development, 1989, update.

3. UN/NGO Group on Women and Development, Women and World Economic Crisis, 15.

4. UN/NGO Group on Women and Development, Women and Health, prepared by Smyke, Patricia, New Jersey and London: Zed Books Ltd., 1991, 4 Google Scholar.

5. Kimathi, Wambui and Omiya, Pascaliah J. , “The Growing Burden of Poverty on Women and its Effect on their Reproductive Health and Rights: An Analysis of the Kenyan Case” in IPPF Discussion Paper, no. 1, Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights of Women, p. 1 Google Scholar.

6. See UNICEF, Kenya Office, Country, “Situation Analysis of Women and Children in Kenya,” Nairobi: Mangraphics, 1989, 127 Google Scholar.

7. GK and UNICEF, Children and Women in Kenya: A Situation Analysis, 1992, 57.

8. Ibid.

9. Ibid, 64.

10. Kimathi and Omuya, 15.

11. University of Nairobi, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, unpublished report on Induced Abortions in Kenyatta National Hospital, 1993.

12. UNICEF, The State of the World’s Children, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990 Google Scholar.

13. GK and UNICEF, Children and Women in Kenya, 1992, 57.

14. Ibid., p. 63.

15. Telesphore Mpundu, George, “The Church’s Lifestyle in the Context of Africa’s Poverty,” African Ecclessial Review, vol. 37 nos. 5 and 6, p. 271 Google Scholar.

16. Cited in AFER, vol. 37 nos. 5 and 6, p. 275.