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 Adolescence is a critical stage in the life course and evidence suggests that
even though contraceptive use has been steadily increasing among women in Ghana over …

The Kenya Demographic and Health Survey (KDHS 2014) revealed changing patterns in
the contraceptive use of young women aged 15–24, shifting from injectable methods to …

Abstract Burkina-Faso (TFR= 6.0) is among the top-ten high fertility countries world-wide and
CPR (15%) among women is low. This study examined the factors associated with non-use …

Background The overwhelming uptake of contraception in Kenya at 58% suggests huge
potential for a continued increase, but discontinuation threatens efforts to achieve new …

Objectives To compare the quality of family planning services delivered at public and private
facilities in Kenya. Methods Data from the 2004 Kenya Service Provision Assessment were …

Objectives We examined the overall contributions of the poor and non-poor in fertility decline
across the Asian countries. Further, we analyzed the direct and indirect factors that …

Context: Understanding shifts in contraceptive method mix is key to helping policymakers,
program managers and donor agencies meet current contraceptive demand and estimate …

Background Family planning programs have recently undergone a fundamental shift from
being focused on women only to focusing on men individually, or on both partners …

1.2 Objectives• To systematically review, summarize and assess all relevant evidence on
whether the provision of a wide choice of modern contraceptive methods is associated with …