title: Decree No. 88-129/PCMS/MSP/AS prescribing procedures for the implementation of Ordinance No. 88-19 of 7 April 1988 authorizing the practice of contraception, 7 April 1988.
abstract: Sections 1-6 of this Decree, which has been made in pursuance of, inter alia, Ordinance No. 88-19 of 7 April 1988, read as follows:  "1) Medical and allied health personnel shall be authorized to apply the following reversible and irreversible contraception methods: oral and injectable hormonal methods; IUDs; barrier methods (diaphragms, spermicides, and condoms); ligation of the fallopian tubes or tubal sterilization; and vasectomy.  2) Physicians specializing in obstetrics and gynecology shall be entitled to apply all forms of contraception.  3) The following shall be authorized to prescribe oral and injectable contraceptives: physicians, midwives, higher health technicians and health assistants, and nurses holding a State diploma who have received appropriate training.  4) Physicians, higher health technicians, midwives, and nurses holding a State diploma, who have received appropriate training, shall be authorized to prescribe and to perform the insertion of IUDs.  5) No medical prescription shall be required in order to acquire diaphragms, spermicides, and condoms.  6) The procedures for the implementation of this Decree shall be laid down by Order of the Minister of Public Health and Social Affairs of the Niger."
mesh_terms: D000349:Africa; D017954:Africa South of the Sahara; D000352:Africa, Northern; D000354:Africa, Western; D003267:Contraception; D003695:Delivery of Health Care; D003906:Developing Countries; D005193:Family Planning Services; D006262:Health; D006285:Health Planning; D007878:Legislation as Topic; D009548:Niger; D009934:Organization and Administration; D013245:Sterilization, Reproductive
keywords: Africa; Africa South Of The Sahara; Contraception--legal aspects; Contraceptive Distribution--legal aspects; Contraceptive Methods--legal aspects; Delivery Of Health Care--legal aspects; Developing Countries; Distributional Activities; Family Planning; French Speaking Africa; Health; Laws And Statutes; Niger; Organization And Administration; Program Activities; Programs; Sterilization, Sexual--legal aspects; Western Africa