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Side effects are a primary reason why women stop using contraception, even though they may still want to avoid a pregnancy. However, women’s experiences with side effects is not well documented, especially among current users. The Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) and other nationally representative surveys only ask about side effects in the context of […]

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Expanding access to integrated HIV/family planning (FP) services and equipping health workers to provide unbiased FP services to women living with HIV (WLHIV) may help reduce negative feelings WLHIV have toward themselves in addition to reducing barriers to FP. Kenya has successfully expanded HIV treatment, but HIV-related stigma and discrimination remain. While HIV-related stigma can […]

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Journal: BMC Public Health Authors: Sara Chace Dwyer, Aparna Jain, Salisu Mohammed Ishaku, Faizah Tosin Okunade, Chiamaka Uzomba, Adedamola Adebayo & Elizabeth Tobey Abstract: Background: To increase access to voluntary family planning (FP) services, Nigerian policymakers are debating how to task share injectable contraceptive services to drug shop owners known as Patent and Proprietary Medicine […]

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Journal: PLOS ONE Authors: Elizabeth Tobey, Aparna Jain, and Arupendra Mozumdar Abstract: To understand the relationship between pregnancy intentions and contraceptive use, a growing body of research has begun to examine various domains of women’s attitudes towards pregnancy, acknowledging that these attitudes may contradict one another, and women may be ambivalent. This study examines pregnancy […]

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Journal: PLOS ONE Authors: Katharine J. McCarthy, Ruchi Mehta and Nicole A. Haberland Abstract:  Introduction: Harmful gender norms, views on the acceptability of violence against women, and power inequities in relationships have been explored as key drivers of male perpetration of intimate partner violence (IPV). Yet such antecedents have been inconsistently measured in the empirical literature. This systematic […]