Foreit J R, Garate M R, Brazzoduro A, Guillen F, Herrera M C, Suarez F C
Population Council, Lima, Peru.
Stud Fam Plann. 1992 Jan-Feb;23(1):58-62.
This report presents the results of an operations research project to increase male involvement in family planning in Peru. Two community-based distribution (CBD) programs, PROFAMILIA of Lima and CENPROF of Trujillo, Peru, recruited male contraceptive distributors and compared their performance to that of female distributors recruited at the same time. Both programs found it harder to recruit men than women as distributors. Program supervisors, who were women, were less comfortable with men than with other women, even though there were no differences in distributor compliance with program norms. Male distributors were more likely to serve male clients and sell male methods (condoms), while female distributors were more likely to serve female clients and sell female methods (pills). Men sold as much or more total couple-years of protection than did women, and they recruited as many or more new acceptors. Gender was found to exert an impact on method mix independent of other distributor characteristics, such as age, education, marital status, and number of living children. The study suggests that family planning programs can influence method mix and client characteristics by recruiting men as CBD distributors.
本报告展示了一项运筹学项目的成果，该项目旨在提高秘鲁男性对计划生育的参与度。秘鲁利马的PROFAMILIA和特鲁希略的CENPROF这两个基于社区的分发（CBD）项目招募了男性避孕药具分发员，并将他们的表现与同时招募的女性分发员进行比较。两个项目都发现，招募男性分发员比招募女性分发员更难。项目主管是女性，她们与男性相处不如与其他女性相处自在，尽管分发员在遵守项目规范方面没有差异。男性分发员更有可能服务男性客户并销售男性使用的避孕方法（避孕套），而女性分发员更有可能服务女性客户并销售女性使用的避孕方法（避孕药）。男性售出的总夫妇保护年数与女性相当或更多，并且他们招募的新接受者数量也相当或更多。研究发现，性别对避孕方法组合产生影响，且这种影响独立于其他分发员特征，如年龄、教育程度、婚姻状况和在世子女数量。该研究表明，计划生育项目可以通过招募男性作为CBD分发员来影响避孕方法组合和客户特征。
