title: Cash payments to encourage contraception, 1988.
abstract: The Government of Sri Lanka has established a new scheme to pay cash incentives to women who use the loop method of contraception.  The payment for the first year will be Rs. 125, for the second year Rs. 250, and for the third year Rs. 375.  This scheme is part of a larger strategy by government officials to reduce emphasis on sterilization and promote birth spacing and family planning methods.  In 1988, the Government also approved for contraceptive use the subdermal implant, Norplant.  See IPPF, People, Vol. 15, No. 3 1988, p. 27 and IPPF Open File, 20 January 1988, pp. 33-34.
mesh_terms: D001208:Asia; D001721:Birth Intervals; D003257:Consumer Product Safety; D003267:Contraception; D003270:Contraceptive Agents; D003271:Contraceptive Agents, Female; D003906:Developing Countries; D005193:Family Planning Services; D006285:Health Planning; D007434:Intrauterine Devices; D019359:Knowledge; D007878:Legislation as Topic; D016912:Levonorgestrel; D009042:Motivation; D010342:Patient Acceptance of Health Care; D011640:Public Policy; D013188:Sri Lanka
chemical_list: D003270:Contraceptive Agents; D003271:Contraceptive Agents, Female; D016912:Levonorgestrel
keywords: Acceptors; Asia; Birth Spacing; Contraception; Contraceptive Agents; Contraceptive Agents, Female; Contraceptive Agents, Progestin; Contraceptive Implants; Contraceptive Methods; Developing Countries; Family Planning; Family Planning Programs; Incentives; Iud; Knowledge; Legislation; Levonorgestrel; Policy; Product Approval; Southern Asia; Sri Lanka