Demand for Family Planning among HIV Positive Women on ART: The Case of South Gondar and North Wollo Zones Amhara Region
BACKGROUND:
Although
family planning for human immune deficiency virus positive women has numerous
advantages, evidences in different parts of the world showed the existence of
persistent unmet need. There were few studies done in Ethiopia on level of
unmet need for family planning among women in reproductive age on
antiretroviral therapy (ART). This study was therefore done to determine the
level of demand and unmet need for family planning among women on ART in South
Gondar and North Wollo Zones, Amhara region.
METHODS:
Institution
based cross-sectional study design was used. Data was collected from June 15 to
25, 2013 in South Gondar and North Wollo Zones. Study participants were
recruited from six health centers and two hospitals. The study participants
were proportionally allocated to the health institutions. Multistage sampling
technique was used to recruit study participants. Trained nurses interviewed
the respondents using pretested structured Amharic questionnaire. Data was
entered, cleaned and analyzed using Statistical Package for Social Science
version 16. Ratios and proportions were computed to determine demand and unmet
need for family planning.
RESULTS:
A total
of 530 women in reproductive age on ART were interviewed in this study. Two
hundred ninety-three women were married. Fourteen (2.6 %) women were
pregnant at the time of interview. Five of these pregnancies were not planned.
In this study, 242 (45.7 %) women reported that they were using
contraceptives. Most women (74.4 %) were using injectable (depo). Among those
who were not using contraceptives, 84 (29.2 %) reported that they will use
in the future. Fifty-two (61.9 %) of them said that they will use
injectables (depo). In this study, the total demand for family planning among
women on ART was 86.7 %. From this, 62.1 % and 24.6 % was met
and unmet need respectively.
CONCLUSIONS:
This
study revealed that the level of demand and met need for modern contraceptives
among reproductive age women on antiretroviral therapy in South Gondar and
North Wollo Zones was higher than that of sexually active married women in
Ethiopia. But the level of unmet need is still similar with that of sexually
active married women in Ethiopia.
Below: Demand for family planning among women on ART in South Gondar and North Wollo Zones, June 2013
- 1School of Public Health, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Bahir Dar University, P.O.Box 79, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia. abejegedefaw@gmail.com.
- 2College of Health Sciences, Madawalabu University, Bale Goba, Ethiopia. motbainor2@gmail.com.
- BMC Res Notes. 2016 Jan 25;9(1):43. doi: 10.1186/s13104-016-1850-8.
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