Women’s empowerment and fertility preferences in high fertility countries in Sub-Saharan Africa

Fertility Transition: Is sub-Saharan Africa Different?

Fertility in sub-Saharan africa (“africa”) stood at 5.1 births per woman in 2005–10 (united nations 2011), more than double the replacement level. this high fertility combined with declining mortality has resulted in rapid population growth—2.5 percent per year—and the un projects the sub-Saharan population to grow from 0.86 billion in 2010 to 1.96 billion in 2050 and 3.36 billion in 2100. Such...

Women’s Empowerment and Achievement of Desired Fertility in Sub-Saharan Africa

Previous studies, conducted mainly in Asian countries, have shown that women‘s empowerment is associated with contraceptive use, lower fertility, and longer birth intervals. Yet little is known about the association of women‘s empowerment with fertility desires in subSaharan African countries where overall fertility levels remain high. This study tries to fill this gap, exploring whether women‘...

Premarital fertility and HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa.

The paper investigates the complex relationships between premarital fertility and HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan African countries. The DHS surveys provided data to compute the prevalence of premarital fertility, defined as any birth before the first marriage. The UNAIDS database provided data to compute the prevalence of HIV infection among pregnant women. Results indicate a moderate association betw...

Impact of Hiv/aids on Fertility in Sub-saharan Africa

IMPACT OF HIV/AIDS ON FERTILITY IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA Fourth Meeting of the Follow-up Committee on the implementation of the DND and the ICPD-PA Yaounde, Cameroon 28-31 January 2002 ECONOMIC COMMISSION FOR AFRICA JOINT ECA/OAU/ADB SECRETARIAT IN COLLABORATION WITH UNFPA James P.M. Ntozi** TABLE OF CONTENTS Summary

Fertility in East Africa countries