Falling fertility: lessons learned from Botswana – Science Weekly podcast

Published: Oct. 26, 2018, 5 a.m.

Fifty years ago, the average woman in Botswana had seven children. Now she will have fewer than three. Enabling women to control their fertility has had huge ramifications for their health, education and employment – could President Trump’s ‘ global gag rule’ threaten this? Nicola Davis travels to Botswana to investigate