**Meet the editor**

Zouhair Amarin is a Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the Jordan University of Science and Technology. He earned his MD degree from Sofia and holds his membership and fellowship from the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, London. He received his MSc degree in Medical Science from the University of Glasgow and MSc degree in Health Professions

Education from the Netherlands. He received his Medical Degree from the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates, USA. He has been awarded the Fellowship of the Faculty of Public Health of the Royal College of Physicians, London, with distinction.

His academic positions include having been a lecturer at the University of Glasgow, a Senior Lecturer at the University of Nottingham, and the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at the Mutah University. His professional achievements include being a pioneer in In-Vitro -Fertilization (1983), the first to introduce a Gamete Intra-Fallopian Transfer to Britain (1985), the first to develop Microsurgical Epididymis Sperm Aspiration for clinical use (1992), and the first to develop a surgical procedure for critical Ovarian Hyperstimulation Syndrome (2003). He has published over 100 publications, book chapters, and books. He is an editorial board member of many international medical journals and has received several awards.

Contents

**Preface IX**

Zouhair Amarin

**Planning 33**

David A. Schwartz

**Challenges 69** Alhaji A Aliyu

Bola Lukman Solanke

**Section 1 Introduction to Family Planning 1**

Chapter 1 **Introductory Chapter: Family Planning 3**

**Promoters of Contraception 13** Melissa J. Wilde and KaJaiyaiu Hopkins

Canan Tuz and Bilge Tuncel

**Section 2 Resources to Access Contraception and Populationn Policy 67**

Chapter 2 **From Eugenicists to Family Planners: America's Religious**

Chapter 3 **Factors Affecting the Attitudes of Women toward Family**

Chapter 4 **Pregnant and Out of Options: The Quest for Abortion in Latin America Due to the Zika Virus Pandemic 51**

Chapter 6 **Drivers of Unmet Need for Family Planning among Women of**

**Advanced Reproductive Age in Urban Western Africa 95**

Chapter 5 **Family Planning Services in Africa: The Successes and**

Nazli Sensoy, Yasemin Korkut, Selcuk Akturan, Mehmet Yilmaz,
