[Apropos of the preliminary paraclinical evaluation of oral contraception]

As all developing countries Senegal keeps on paying a heavy tribute to, on the one hand, the high maternal mortality and morbidity, and on the other hand, infantile mortality. Family planning could have advantageous effect on health, welfare and development of all the family. Unfortunately, difficult over all socio-economical situation, lack of human resources, particularly maternal, and the coast of paraclinical exams brakes the access of population to family planning services. In this work, we tried with FHI/PSFP/Institute Pasteur to initial a prospective study who aimed to show that a good clinical exam with a complete medical interrogatory should be a good alternative to contraception preliminary paraclinical check-up.