Keogh, Sarah C. Otupiri, Easmon Castillo, Philicia W. Li, Naomi W. Apenkwa, Joana Polis, Chelsea B.
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Reproductive Health
Young Ghanaian women can experience difficulties accessing sexual and reproductive health services, and many are not using contraception despite wanting to avoid pregnancy. To better understand their needs, we describe their preferences and behaviors around contraception and abortion. We surveyed a nationally representative sample of women aged 15–...
Beckham, S. Wilson Stockton, Melissa Galai, Noya Davis, Wendy Mwambo, Jessie Likindikoki, Samuel Kerrigan, Deanna
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BMC Public Health
BackgroundFemale sex workers in sub-Saharan Africa face high unmet need for family planning and higher risk for unintended pregnancy. Community empowerment HIV prevention approaches have the potential to increase family planning uptake and present an opportunity to integrate HIV, reproductive health, and contraception. This article describes family...
Yang, Fang Li, Junjun Dong, Liang Tan, Kun Huang, Xiaopeng Zhang, Peihai Liu, Xiaozhang Chang, Degui Yu, Xujun
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The world journal of men's health
Vasectomy is a simple, safe, effective, and economical method used worldwide for long-term male contraception. As a surgical operation, it has short-term and long-term complications such as hematoma formation, infection, sterilization failure, sperm granulomas, short-term postoperative pain (nodal pain, scrotal pain, and ejaculation pain), and chro...
Patel, Chirag G Cox, Shanna Li, Rui Pazol, Karen Tao, Guoyu
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The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine
This study aimed to evaluate the receipt of chlamydia and gonorrhea screening among women aged 15-24 years undergoing long-acting reversible contraception (LARC) insertion. We used the 2016-2017 MarketScan commercial claims data set to identify sexually active women aged 15-24 years with LARC insertion in 2017 and had ≥12 months of insurance covera...
Ouédraogo, Adja Mariam Baguiya, Adama Compaoré, Rachidatou Cissé, Kadari Dahourou, Désiré Lucien Somé, Anthony Tougri, Halima Kouanda, Seni
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BMC Women's Health
BackgroundThe effective use of contraception among adolescents and young women can reduce the risk of unintended pregnancies. However, the prevalence of contraceptive use remains low in this age group. The objective of this study was to estimate the rate of contraceptive method discontinuation among adolescents and young women and to identify its a...
Ishola, Foluso Ukah, U. Vivian Nandi, Arijit
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Systematic Reviews
BackgroundA country’s abortion law is a key component in determining the enabling environment for safe abortion. While restrictive abortion laws still prevail in most low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), many countries have reformed their abortion laws, with the majority of them moving away from an absolute ban. However, the implications of th...
Zeal, Carley Paul, Rachel Dorsey, Megan Politi, Mary C Madden, Tessa
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Contraception
We explored women's preferences for contraceptive education and assess the role of the clinician in delivering this education. We recruited women ages 16-29 presenting for gynecologic care at three clinical sites. Respondents completed a survey about preferences for receipt of contraceptive information and trustworthiness of information sources. We...
Adofo, Emmanuel Dun-Dery, Elvis J Kotoh, Agnes M Dun-Dery, Frederick Avoka, James Atampiiga Ashinyo, Mary Eyram
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SAGE open medicine
This study aimed to determine postpartum modern contraceptive use among first-time young mothers attending child welfare clinics in the Eastern Region of Ghana and explore factors that influence family planning uptake after the first delivery, including fear of infertility. This facility-based, cross-sectional study used interviewer-administered st...
Bick, Alexis J Louw-du Toit, Renate Skosana, Salndave B Africander, Donita Hapgood, Janet P
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Pharmacology & therapeutics
Many different forms of hormonal contraception are used by millions of women worldwide. These contraceptives differ in the dose and type of synthetic progestogenic compound (progestin) used, as well as the route of administration and whether or not they contain estrogenic compounds. There is an increasing awareness that different forms of contracep...
Treister-Goltzman, Yulia Freud, Tamar Peleg, Roni
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Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities
Two populations with different socio-demographic characteristics reside in southern Israel: the traditional Muslim Bedouin population and the Jewish population that leads a western lifestyle. The aim of the study was to assess the rate, pattern, and dynamics of the use of contraception in these two ethnic populations from 2006 to 2016 and to identi...
