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Gender differentials of contraceptive knowledge and use among youth – evidence from demographic and health survey data in selected African countries
Improving family planning demand and uptake has both social and economic benefits, including increasing education attainment, reducing poverty and increased participation in the labour force. Also, contraceptive use remains a key driver in Africa to facilitate demographic transition and the demograp...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9668870/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36405812 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fgwh.2022.880056 |
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description | Improving family planning demand and uptake has both social and economic benefits, including increasing education attainment, reducing poverty and increased participation in the labour force. Also, contraceptive use remains a key driver in Africa to facilitate demographic transition and the demographic dividend. However, numerous challenges have prevented the take-up of contraception across the continent. This is more so the case among African youth that present the lowest levels of contraceptive use in sub-Saharan Africa. Therefore, the objective of this research was to examine gender differences in contraceptive use and knowledge of sexually active young people (15–24 years) in sub-Saharan African countries. This study used data from nine countries in sub-Saharan Africa through the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHSs) of Benin, Democratic Republic of Congo, Lesotho, Namibia, Niger, Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa and Zimbabwe. Data analysis entailed frequency distributions and cross-tabulations to describe the gender-differentiated levels of contraceptive use and knowledge among youth. Additionally, logistic regression showed the gender-specific predictors of contraceptive use for African youth. Our findings present the gender-specific predictors of contraceptive use and will contribute to policy and programme formulation for African countries and organisations that promote contraceptive use. |
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spelling | pubmed-96688702022-11-18 Gender differentials of contraceptive knowledge and use among youth – evidence from demographic and health survey data in selected African countries Mkwananzi, Sibusiso Front Glob Womens Health Global Women's Health Improving family planning demand and uptake has both social and economic benefits, including increasing education attainment, reducing poverty and increased participation in the labour force. Also, contraceptive use remains a key driver in Africa to facilitate demographic transition and the demographic dividend. However, numerous challenges have prevented the take-up of contraception across the continent. This is more so the case among African youth that present the lowest levels of contraceptive use in sub-Saharan Africa. Therefore, the objective of this research was to examine gender differences in contraceptive use and knowledge of sexually active young people (15–24 years) in sub-Saharan African countries. This study used data from nine countries in sub-Saharan Africa through the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHSs) of Benin, Democratic Republic of Congo, Lesotho, Namibia, Niger, Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa and Zimbabwe. Data analysis entailed frequency distributions and cross-tabulations to describe the gender-differentiated levels of contraceptive use and knowledge among youth. Additionally, logistic regression showed the gender-specific predictors of contraceptive use for African youth. Our findings present the gender-specific predictors of contraceptive use and will contribute to policy and programme formulation for African countries and organisations that promote contraceptive use. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-11-03 /pmc/articles/PMC9668870/ /pubmed/36405812 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fgwh.2022.880056 Text en © 2022 Mkwananzi. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Global Women's Health Mkwananzi, Sibusiso Gender differentials of contraceptive knowledge and use among youth – evidence from demographic and health survey data in selected African countries |
title | Gender differentials of contraceptive knowledge and use among youth – evidence from demographic and health survey data in selected African countries |
title_full | Gender differentials of contraceptive knowledge and use among youth – evidence from demographic and health survey data in selected African countries |
title_fullStr | Gender differentials of contraceptive knowledge and use among youth – evidence from demographic and health survey data in selected African countries |
title_full_unstemmed | Gender differentials of contraceptive knowledge and use among youth – evidence from demographic and health survey data in selected African countries |
title_short | Gender differentials of contraceptive knowledge and use among youth – evidence from demographic and health survey data in selected African countries |
title_sort | gender differentials of contraceptive knowledge and use among youth – evidence from demographic and health survey data in selected african countries |
topic | Global Women's Health |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9668870/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36405812 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fgwh.2022.880056 |
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