Family planning in Mauritius: a national survey.

In the context of the Mauritian government's policy of encouraging fertility reduction, in 1975 the Ministry of Health requested the University of Mauritius to conduct the first national survey of contraceptive knowledge and use. The results for the 1,821 ever-married women under age 50 who were interviewed indicated high levels of knowledge and use of contraception. Nevertheless, there is still a need for increased efforts to retrieve dropouts and to improve the efficiency of contraceptive use.