Modern contraceptives in sub-Saharan African countries

Community-based distribution of injectable contraceptives: introduction strategies in four sub-Saharan African countries.

214 Theresa Hoke is scientist II, Aurélie Brunie is scientist I, Kirsten Krueger is senior technical officer and Crystal Dreisbach was, at the time this article was written, a technical officer, all at FHI 360. Angela Akol is country director at FHI 360/Uganda. Ny Lovaniaina Rabenja was, at the time this article was written, a program officer at FHI 360/Madagascar. Alice Olawo is research assoc...

Determinants of Institutional Quality in Sub-Saharan African Countries

Grandmothers and Children’s Schooling in 33 sub- Saharan African Countries

An important debate in the anthropological literature concerns the benefits children in poor countries derive from the presence of a grandmother. The broadly held idea that grandmothers are beneficial for their grandchildren has been challenged by the finding that in a resource poor society (the Dogon in Mali) the presence of a grandmother could negatively affect the life chances of their grand...

Non-physician clinicians in 47 sub-Saharan African countries.

Many countries have health-care providers who are not trained as physicians but who take on many of the diagnostic and clinical functions of medical doctors. We identified non-physician clinicians (NPCs) in 25 of 47 countries in sub-Saharan Africa, although their roles varied widely between countries. In nine countries, numbers of NPCs equalled or exceeded numbers of physicians. In general NPCs...

Rising popularity of injectable contraceptives in sub-Saharan Africa

Injectable contraceptives are fast becoming the method of choice among married women in sub-Saharan Africa. In several countries in the region, the proportion of women using injectable methods has surpassed the proportion of women using the pill. This is true even in some countries where the pill had been the most popular modern method in the 1980s and 1990s. This paper analyzes data from six s...