The Japan Family Planning Association (JFPA), begun in 1955, is a private self-supporting organization in cooperation with the government and local agencies. JFPA supports family planning and maternal health programs at the grassroots level by training family planning workers in a 40 hour course, publishing a monthly newsletter, producing educational materials, distributing contraceptives, operating family planning clinics, telephone counseling, and genetic counseling by physicians. Most of its workers are midwives who now work in hospitals and public health nurses. Contraceptive methods in use in Japan are: condoms 77
作者：Y, Kon
来源：Integration (Tokyo, Japan) 1988 年 18期
