[Bullpine]

It also questions why the campaign is only targeting women of 14 to 49 years. “Why is the campaign leaving out young girls, boys and men when all are prone to tetanus?” The statement asks. In the midst of so many life-threatening diseases, in Kenya, they are surprised that Tetanus is being prioritised by the Government? The Commission asserts that “When injected as a vaccine to a non-pregnant woman, the Beta HCG sub unit combined with Tetanus toxoid develops antibodies against Tetanus and HCG so that if a woman’s egg becomes fertilised, her own natural HCG will be destroyed rendering her permanently infertile. In this situation the Tetanus vaccination has been used as a birth control method.” The Commission says that the Catholic Church’s health institutions want to participate in ensuring that the vaccines to be administered are free of this hormone.

[LadyDoc]

it is targeted to women of childbearing age to prevent neonatal tetanus, a common problem in Africa where often moms "treat" the umbillical cord stump with an herbal concoction. I've seen these kids die, and our Catholic hospital in Africa gave all pregnant woman a tetanus shot or a series if they hadn't received it as kids.

The UN statistics say 58 thousand babies die of neonatal tetanus in 2010, but note that since many are home births far from hospitals, that the death rate is probably

And for all the posters noting the decrease of fertility in some countries, they don't ask if this is the mom's choice or if there is an epidemic of infertility. I suspect the latter: Given a choice, no woman wants a baby every year or two. Even here in the Philippines, where family planning isn't paid for by the gov't, the average fertility rate has gone down from 6 kids per woman to 2.5. Of course, some of this is due to natural family planning,or because they are buying the pills on their own, but some is due to women seeing "hilots" for herbs to abort their kids. But no one wants to talk about it.