Contribution of Contraceptive Discontinuation to Unintended Births in 36 Developing Countries
High contraceptive discontinuation results in millions of women having an unmet need for contraception. However, its contribution to unintended fertility is not known. Reproductive calendar data in Demographic and Health Surveys in 36 countries are used to estimate the percent of unintended recent births attributable to contraceptive discontinuation. Contraceptive discontinuation accounted for about one‐third of unintended recent births in all countries together. Method failure and contraception discontinued for other reasons accounted for most of this contribution. The contribution of contraceptive discontinuation to un...
Source: Studies in Family Planning - March 1, 2017 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Anrudh K. Jain, William Winfrey Tags: REPORT Source Type: research
Integration of Family Planning Services into HIV Care and Treatment Services: A Systematic Review
Evidence on the feasibility, effectiveness, and cost‐effectiveness of integrating family planning (FP) and HIV services has grown significantly since the 2004 Glion Call to Action. This systematic review adds to the knowledge base by characterizing the range of models used to integrate FP into HIV care and treatment, and synthesizing the evidence on integration outcomes among women living with HIV. Fourteen studies met our inclusion criteria, eight of which were published after the last systematic review on the topic in 2013. Overall, integration was associated with higher modern method contraceptive prevalence and knowl...
Source: Studies in Family Planning - March 1, 2017 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Sabina A. Haberlen, Manjulaa Narasimhan, Laura K. Beres, Caitlin E. Kennedy Tags: SPECIAL ISSUE Source Type: research
Pregnancy Experiences of Female Sex Workers in Adama City, Ethiopia: Complexity of Partner Relationships and Pregnancy Intentions
Research and programs for female sex workers (FSWs) tend to focus exclusively on HIV prevention, with little attention paid to how pregnancy affects their lives. We examine the circumstances surrounding pregnancy and childbirth among women selling sex in Ethiopia. In Adama City, researchers asked 30 FSWs aged 18 and older who had ever been pregnant to participate in in‐depth interviews. The women reported on pregnancies experienced both before and after they had begun selling sex. They identified some of the fathers as clients, former partners, and current partners, but they did not know the identities of the other fathe...
Source: Studies in Family Planning - February 28, 2017 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Eileen A. Yam, Aklilu Kidanu, Brady Burnett ‐Zieman, Nanlesta Pilgrim, Jerry Okal, Assefa Bekele, Daniel Gudeta, Georgina Caswell Tags: SPECIAL ISSUE Source Type: research
Links Between Education and Age at Marriage among Palestinian Women in Israel: Changes Over Time
This study focuses on the link between education and marriage timing among Israeli‐Palestinian women. Theoretical discussions on marriage timing center on the effect of the time women spend in educational institutions on their age at marriage, and on the change in the desirable traits of women in the marriage market. But most of these arguments overlook situations where significant changes in education take place alongside retention of traditional patriarchal values. Based on data from three population censuses – in 1983, 1995 and 2008—our results suggest that staying longer in schooling delays marriage, so women wit...
Source: Studies in Family Planning - February 28, 2017 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Maha Sabbah ‐Karkaby, Haya Stier Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
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Source: Studies in Family Planning - December 6, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Tags: ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Source Type: research
Rwanda 2014 –15
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Source: Studies in Family Planning - December 6, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Tags: DATA Source Type: research
Chad 2014 –15
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Systematic Reviews of Mechanisms for Financing Family Planning: Findings, Implications, and Future Agenda
The article describes an international collaboration that systematically reviewed the evidence on financing mechanisms for family planning/contraception, assessed the strength of and summarized the evidence, identified research gaps, and proposed a new research agenda to address the gaps. The review found that the evidence base is weak owing to the paucity of studies, diversity in findings, and variations in intervention, study design, and outcome measures. Of more than 17,000 papers reviewed only 38 met the eligibility criteria. A number of general recommendations on the directions and areas of future research can be draw...
Source: Studies in Family Planning - December 6, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Craig L. Lissner, Moazzam Ali, Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
The Association Between Unintended Births and Poor Child Development in India: Evidence from a Longitudinal Study
Evidence on the association between unintended births and poor child development in developing countries is limited. We used data from three waves of the Young Lives study on childhood poverty conducted in Andhra Pradesh in 2002, 2006–07, and 2009 to examine the association between unintended births and poor child development in India. Multivariable linear regression models were used to examine the association between unintended births and four indicators of child development—height‐for‐age Z‐score (HAZ), Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT) score, Mathematics Achievement Test (MAT) score, and Early Grade Readi...
Source: Studies in Family Planning - November 30, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Abhishek Singh, Ashish Kumar Upadhyay, Ashish Singh, Kaushalendra Kumar Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
Integrating Community ‐Based Family Planning Services with Local Marine Conservation Initiatives in Southwest Madagascar: Changes in Contraceptive Use and Fertility
This study assessed changes in contraceptive use and fertility between 2009 and 2013 in the Velondriake locally managed marine area of southwest Madagascar where marine conservation organization Blue Ventures began implementing an integrated health‐environment program in 2007. The proportion of sexually active women aged 15 to 49 years using hormonal contraception and/or condoms during last intercourse increased more than twofold from 25 percent in 2009 to 59 percent in 2013. The number of births in the last 12 months per 1,000 women of reproductive age declined by 28 percent over the same period from 196 in 2009 to 14...
Source: Studies in Family Planning - November 30, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Laura Robson, Martine Holston, Caroline Savitzky, Vik Mohan Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
Progress toward the Goals of FP2020
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Source: Studies in Family Planning - November 30, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Authors: John Stover, Emily Sonneveldt Tags: COMMENTARY Source Type: research
Unmet Need and Sex: Investigating the Role of Coital Frequency in Fertility Control
We estimate the relationship between unmet need for contraception and coital frequency using data from the most recent Standard Demographic and Health Surveys conducted from 2005 to 2015. Individual‐level analyses include 55 countries (n=245,732 women). The dependent variable is women's report of any sex in the last four weeks; the independent variable is current unmet need. Bivariate ecological results using country averages indicate that prevalence of unmet need is significantly negatively correlated with the proportion reporting recent sexual activity. Multivariate regression of individual‐level data show that the o...
Source: Studies in Family Planning - November 30, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Suzanne O. Bell, David Bishai Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
Recent Trends in Premarital Fertility across Sub ‐Saharan Africa
The rising age of first marriage across sub‐Saharan Africa over the past 25 years has led many scholars to predict a concurrent increase in premarital childbearing. We examine whether this anticipated increase has materialized using data from 27 countries. Our results reveal considerable heterogeneity. Although levels of premarital fertility have risen by up to 13 percent in recent years in some African countries, other countries have experienced a 7 percent decline. Adolescent premarital childbearing, in particular, has shown marked decline in several countries. Furthermore, although the rising age of marriage exerts cl...
Source: Studies in Family Planning - November 30, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Shelley Clark, Alissa Koski, Emily Smith ‐Greenaway Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
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