it should be the goal of public private and nongovernmental familyplanning organizations to remove all programmerelated barriers to familyplanning use by the year through the redesign or expansion of information and services and other ways to increase the ability of couples and individuals to make free and informed decisions about the number spacing and timing of births and protect themselves from sexually transmitted diseases specifically governments should make it easier for couples and individuals to take responsibility for their own reproductive health by removing unnecessary legal medical clinical and regulatory barriers to information and to access to familyplanning services and methods all political and community leaders are urged to play a strong sustained and highly visible role in promoting and legitimizing the provision and use of familyplanning and reproductive health services