Ethiopian Jews in Israel |
Israel has admitted to giving birth control injections to Ethiopian women without really explaining what the injection is all about, according to press reports in Israel.
Shaken by the birth control treatments for Ethiopian Jews scandal, the Israeli health ministry issued new guidelines on the use of injections commercially known as Depo-Provera.
In a recent letter to the four government sponsored health insurance companies, Ron Gamzu, the director general of the Ministry of Health instructed gynecologists against the renewal of prescriptions where the patient does not fully understand the implications of the treatment.
The ministry’s new policy is in response to a controversy exposed last month by local investigative journalist who reported that Ethiopian women expecting to emigrate to Israel in the transit camps in Ethiopia, were persuaded to the treatment with little medical explanation. They thought the injection was a condition for moving to Israel.
Some 120,000 Jews of Ethiopian origin are living in Israel, about a third of them are born Israeli. In 2010, the government decided to transfer 2,000 remaining Jews in the African country and close down the transit camps currently run by the Jewish Agency for Israel later this year.
Immigrant women told the reporter it was the usual practice in the transit camps by Jewish and Israeli agencies in Ethiopia for the past decade. Many women followed the course of treatment in Israel, where it has caused a sharp decline in the birth rate among the Ethiopian community in the last decade.
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