Unplanned pregnancies and contraceptive use among HIV- positive women in care

The Relationship between Contraceptive Use and Unintended Pregnancies among Married Women in Thatta District, Pakistan

Background & aim: The rate of unintended pregnancy has decreased from 24% to 16% in the last four to five years in Pakistan. However, this rate stills varies among the women living in the rural and urban areas of Pakistan. The females residing in the rural areas are less likely to have many contraceptive choices and receive no/low-quality family planning services; as a result, they end up with ...

Effective Contraceptive Use Following Unplanned Pregnancy Among Ugandan Women Living with HIV

Contraceptive use and method preference among HIV positive women in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

*Correspondence [email protected] Department of preventive medicine, School of Public Health, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia, Department of preventive medicine, School of Public Health, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia, [email protected] ABSTRACT Background: Prevention of unintended pregnancy among HIV positive women is the second component of “global plan” that can reduce the desperate st...

Contraception use and unplanned pregnancies among injection drug-using women in St Petersburg, Russia.

BACKGROUND This cross-sectional study estimated the prevalence of contraceptive methods and investigated whether abortion rates influence contraceptive behaviour among injection drug-using (IDU) women in St Petersburg, Russia. METHODOLOGY A self-administered questionnaire of behaviour in the last 3 months was applied to a convenient sample of IDU women. RESULTS Of 80 sexually active partici...

Contraceptive Use and Associated Factors among Women Enrolling into HIV Care in Southwestern Uganda

BACKGROUND Preventing unintended pregnancies among women living with HIV is an important component of prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission (PMTCT), yet few data exist on contraceptive use among women entering HIV care. METHODS This was a retrospective study of electronic medical records from the initial HIV clinic visits of 826 sexually active, nonpregnant, 18-49-year old women in s...