Africare is an active supporter and distributor of condoms and a promoter of contraception.
In Africare’s 2014 Annual Report, Africare indicates that one of its programs in Liberia reached nearly 4,000 individuals with the promotion of contraception through what it called “Contraception Day Campaigns.
In 2009, Africare produced a slide show presentation titled, “Family Planning as a Basic Life Saving Skill: Lessons from Africare’s program in rural Liberia“. According to Africare clinic data provided on slide 6 of the presentation, Africare is providing abortifacient contraception in the form of pills and injectables, as well as condoms.
Much of the rest of the presentation complains that it is difficult to convince women in Africa to accept the insertion of an intra-uterine device (IUD), and so on slide 15, Africare recommends that they “Supplement with community mobilization, especially to increase demand of long-acting contraception.”
In Africare’s 2012 annual report, page 33 indicates that it distributed 16,260 condoms during “mass sensitization sessions” in Sierra Leone.
In 2006, Africare published a mid-term report on its Tambacounda Healthy Start Program (THSP) in Senegal. According to the mid-term report, THSP “is a five year maternal and child health program implemented by Africare in the Tambacounda Region of Southeastern Senegal” with the goal of “reducing maternal and child morbidity and mortality among pregnant women and children under one year of age.
According to the reporting chart found on page 49, Africare had already exceeded the program goal of increasing the use of contraception among women by 8 percent by the midterm. Boasting of the effectiveness of its work, Africare explains on page 12 that “this represents approximately twice the national average of 11%.”
On page 28 of this report, Africare explains how it integrated the promotion of contraception into its programs designed to fight malnutrition and disease:
In collaboration with the health districts, THSP provided capacity building on reproductive health, obstetric emergencies, contraceptive technologies and Community IMCI with a focus on malaria, nutrition and diarrhea.
Page 31 of the report shows that Africare’s THSP program “provided TBAs (Traditional Birth Attendant) and RH CHWs (Reproductive Health Clinical Health Worker) with supplies of iron pills, hygiene kits, contraceptives (the pill, spermicide, female and male condoms).”
In 2008, Africare coordinated with several other organizations to create a plan to increase the use of modern contraceptives in Liberia. On page 5, under the situational analysis, Africare and its cohorts lament that “currently diversified Family Planning Services are not well accepted in a pill dominant, Depo-Provera and condom exclusive service, with a national contraceptive prevalence rate of 11%.” On page 15 of this plan, under what it calls “Pillar 4: Family Planning,” is an outlined multi-year strategy for increasing the use of all forms of contraception, including abortifacients.
In 2009, Africare issued a press release about its WISE program. In the release, Africare boasts its education on condom use. The article explains how Africare
In the final summary of Africare’s WISE program, it boasted about increasing the use of condoms from 68% to 82%.
In 2010, Africare indicated that its programs in Zambia included the distribution of condoms. Under it’s listed “Current Projects” for that year, Africare said:
Provincial Lead Agency for Lusaka and Central Provinces in CBO Subgranting:
This initiative funded by the Global Fund through the Zambian National Aids Network, place Africare at the lead for managing and sub-granting to community based organizations implementing a multitude of unique approaches to the HIV/AIDS pandemic including HIV/AIDS prevention messaging, Orphans and Vulnerable Children and Home Based Care activities and condom distribution in Lusaka and Central Provinces.
Conclusion
In nearly every African country that Africare operates, it is working to integrate and increase the use of all forms of contraceptives among the poor people there.
Because of Africare’s unwavering promoting of these grave moral evils, no Christian could ever, in good conscience, support, provide funds or a clean image for this organization.
