Interview report

By Karishma

Singapore: 

(Q)Singapore is an air pollution free country.What are the steps that you have taken to achieve this? Is contraceptives and family planning accessible to everyone. What are your future plans for developing the country?

We have made so many plans like “Green plan 2030.” This plan and actions for this would make our country cleaner and sustainable energy. Our country has more carbon emission. Singapore is working on it to rectify. Singapore also has carbon taxes and it is the first southeast country to have carbon taxes. Singapore also finds different ways to reduce carbon emission by using solar energy, wind energy, etc. Coming to family planning and contraceptives, people above the age of 16 are accessible to it. Our measures are safe with a modernistic approach. Our future plans and the place where Singapore needs to improve is that LGBTQ community is not accessible to these plans for contraceptives. That will be worked on and when it comes to sustainability, we are importing fuels from other countries. We need to work on that so that we need not be overly dependent on them.

UAE:

(Q)The UAE is very devoted to its culture.How are people taking it when it comes to family planning? What are the steps that the government takes to ensure it is reaching people and they are benefited with it?

It is a very common stigmatisation that our country has. But the UAE is not just about locals but also about migrants. Though our country is fully devoted, cultural and has its own beliefs. The UAE also has understood the importance and people are supporting the government. People are monitored by the government in various ways to know if they are really benefited. Even abortions are legal in the UAE. Everyone is accessible to these plans. UAE has also been working on other schemes that can be beneficiary for people.

Ethiopia:

(Q) Ethiopia is not a civilized country and it also has gender discrimination. How are people accessible to these plans like contraceptives? What steps has the government taken for these?

Ethiopia is not a civilized country and of course it has lots of gender discrimination. People are being taught about these through campaigns and other ways. We don't use the way that WHO wanted us to use the fund and the ways to make people know. We follow different way in which people are accessible. We have Health Extensive Workers. They are all womens who go to educate the other womens on their personal sanitation and other things. These are specially made accessible to the rural people because they are the ones who need it the most. Government of Ethiopia is also monitoring these plans and the progress of it. Soon everyone in Ethiopia will be accessible to it.