Unmet need for contraception has been a central indicator for monitoring the progress of
family planning programs for 25 years. The purpose of this article is to provide a broad …

Sexually active women in developing countries who have an unmet need for contraception,
meaning they wish to avoid pregnancy but are not using any contraceptive (traditional or …

Despite its central importance to global family planning, the “unmet need for contraception”
metric is frequently misinterpreted. Often conflated with a lack of access, misinterpretation of …

Health agendas for low-and middle-income countries (LMICs) should embrace and afford
greater priority to urban family planning to help achieve a number of the global Sustainable …

Background Unmet need for family planning points to the gap between women's
reproductive desire to avoid pregnancy and contraceptive behaviour. An estimated 222 …

The objective of this study was to determine factors associated with modern contraceptive
use and unintended pregnancy among young women and men in Accra, Ghana. From …

There is growing consensus in the family planning community around the need for novel
measures of autonomy. Existing literature highlights the tension between efforts to pursue …

Background Despite availability of modern contraceptive methods and documented unmet
need for family planning in Ghana, many women still report forgoing modern contraceptive …

Norms and beliefs toward contraception, both positive and negative, motivate contraceptive
use; however, they have seldom been explored longitudinally in low‐and middle‐income …

Background Some research has been conducted on the role of traditional methods in
regulating births in the early stages of the fertility transition in contemporary developing …