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| | USAID Health: Family Planning, Overview, Tiahrt Policy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16) |
 | | In October 1998, Congress enacted an amendment initiated by Rep. Todd Tiahrt (R-KS), reaffirming and further elaborating standards for voluntary family planning service delivery projects to protect family planning "acceptors," that is, the individual clients receiving services (see Box). |
 | | USAID incorporated the Tiahrt provisions into all agreements with organizations that assist family planning service delivery projects and has communicated them to staff of USAID, implementing partners, and host country counterparts. |
 | | No numerical targets or quotas of total number of births, number of family planning acceptors, or acceptors of a particular family planning method, although quantitative estimates or indicators used for budgeting or planning purposes are permissible. |
| www.usaid.gov /our_work/global_health/pop/tiahrtpolicy.html (805 words) |
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