Ethnicity and fertility desires in Ghana

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nana Ohene Akonor ◽  
Adriana A. E. Biney
Keyword(s):  
Fertility Desires

FERTILITY DESIRES OF YORUBA COUPLES OF SOUTH-WESTERN NIGERIA

2005 ◽  
Vol 38 (5) ◽  
pp. 605-624 ◽  
Author(s):  
KOLAWOLE AZEEZ OYEDIRAN
Keyword(s):  
Logistic Regression ◽  
Regression Models ◽  
Socioeconomic Background ◽  
Background Characteristics ◽  
Fertility Intention ◽  
Logistic Regression Models ◽  
Factors Associated ◽  
Fertility Desires ◽  
Fertility Reduction ◽  
Living Children

Using the matched wife–husband (763) sample from the data collected from Ogbomoso and Iseyin towns in Oyo State, Nigeria, this paper examines factors associated with couples’ fertility intention. The analysis used logistic regression models for predicting the effects of selected socioeconomic background characteristics on a couple’s fertility intention. Results indicate high levels of concurrence among husbands and wives on fertility intention. Where differences exist, husbands are more pronatalists than their wives. About 87% of pairs of partners reported similar fertility preferences. Of these couples, 59·5% wanted more children while only 27·8% reported otherwise. The logistic regression models indicated that a couple’s fertility intention was associated with age, education, place of residence, frequency of television-watching and number of living children. Therefore, programme interventions aimed at promoting fertility reduction in Nigeria should convey fertility regulation messages to both husbands and wives.

Fertility Desires Among HIV-Infected Men and Women in Los Angeles County: Client Needs and Provider Perspectives

2012 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 593-600 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deborah Mindry ◽  
Glenn Wagner ◽  
Jordan Lake ◽  
Amber Smith ◽  
Sebastian Linnemayr ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Los Angeles County ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Fertility Desires ◽  
Provider Perspectives ◽  
Client Needs

Postpartum contraceptive uptake and fertility desires following obstetric anal sphincter injury

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michele O’Shea ◽  
Roya Zandi ◽  
Natasha Kamat ◽  
Kristina Warner ◽  
Sarah Collins ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Anal Sphincter ◽  
Obstetric Anal Sphincter Injury ◽  
Sphincter Injury ◽  
Fertility Desires ◽  
Anal Sphincter Injury ◽  
Contraceptive Uptake

scholarly journals Fertility Desires and Family Size Preferences of HIV Positive Women Accessing Care in the University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital

2021 ◽  
pp. 8-16
Author(s):  
Awuri Babema-Igonikon ◽  
Manuchimso Charles Akaninwor
Keyword(s):  
Family Size ◽  
Reproductive Age ◽  
Systematic Sampling ◽  
Hiv Positive ◽  
High Fertility ◽  
Significant Implication ◽  
Fertility Desires ◽  
Hiv Positive Women ◽  
Desire To Have Children ◽  
Port Harcourt

Introduction: Women living with HIV may or may not intend to bear children. They may also have different preferences in terms of family sizes. The desire of HIV positive women to bear children and their family size preferences has significant implication for horizontal and vertical transmission of this incurable disease. This study, therefore, aims to determine fertility preferences and their predictors among HIV positive women accessing care at UPTH, Port Harcourt, Rivers State. Methods: The study was a descriptive cross-sectional study among 402 women within the reproductive age (15-49 years) who were on Antiretroviral Therapy (ART). Participants were recruited using systematic sampling method and were interviewed with an interviewer-administered questionnaire. A semi-structured, self-administered questionnaire was used to obtain participant’s socio-demographic characteristics, desire for children, use, demand and choice of contraception and reproductive characteristics. With SPSS version 20, data was summarised as descriptive statistics and Chi-square test was used to test for association. Results: The study showed that 81.8% of respondents desire to have children out of which 96 (29.3%) desired one to two children, 169 (51.5%) desired three to four children, and 18 (5.5%) wanted five or more children. Factors such as age, marital status, and disclosure of Sero-status to partner were found to be associated with family size preferences (p<0.05). Conclusion: HIV positive women in Port Harcourt have high fertility desires and moderate family sizes preferences; thus, indicating the need for more support and involvement of the government and relevant stake holders in ensuring better access to ART services in the country. More resources should be channelled towards provision of effective preventive medications and services, people who live with HIV (PLHIVs) should be continuously and adequately sensitised with the necessary knowledge on how to make healthy reproductive decisions, as well as on available practicable reproductive options for HIV-infected women should be made efficient, and easily accessible.

scholarly journals Women's fertility desires and contraceptive behavior in three peri-urban communities in sub Saharan Africa

2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Funmilola OlaOlorun ◽  
Assefa Seme ◽  
Easmon Otupiri ◽  
Peter Ogunjuyigbe ◽  
Amy Tsui
Keyword(s):  
Urban Communities ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Contraceptive Behavior ◽  
Fertility Desires ◽  
Sub Saharan

scholarly journals Fertility Desires of Adolescent Females: Decreased Desire for Children in Those Identifying as Transgender/Gender Diverse and in Depressed Adolescents

2020 ◽  
Vol 33 (6) ◽  
pp. 703-707 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miriam D. Langer ◽  
Ellen J. Silver ◽  
Nancy A. Dodson ◽  
Hina J. Talib ◽  
Susan M. Coupey
Keyword(s):  
Adolescent Females ◽  
Desire For Children ◽  
Fertility Desires ◽  
Gender Diverse

Post-abortion fertility desires, contraceptive uptake and unmet need for family planning: voices of post-abortion care clients in Tanzania

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Colin Baynes ◽  
Erick Yegon ◽  
Grace Lusiola ◽  
Japhet Achola ◽  
Rehema Kahando
Keyword(s):  
Family Planning ◽  
Contraceptive Use ◽  
Unmet Need ◽  
Pregnancy Intentions ◽  
Middle Income ◽  
Fertility Desires ◽  
Abortion Care ◽  
Post Abortion Care ◽  
Post Abortion ◽  
Contraceptive Uptake

Abstract Post-abortion care (PAC) integrates elements of care that are vital for women’s survival after abortion complications with intervention components that aid women in controlling their fertility, and provides an optimal window of opportunity to help women meet their family planning goals. Yet, incorporating quality family planning services remains a shortcoming of PAC services, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. This paper presents evidence from a mixed method study conducted in Tanzania that aimed at explaining factors that contribute to this challenge. Analysis of data obtained through client exit interviews quantified the level of unmet need for contraception among PAC clients and isolated the factors associated with post-abortion contraceptive uptake. Qualitative data analysis of interviews with a subset of these women explored the multi-level context in which post-abortion pregnancy intentions and contraceptive behaviours are formed. Approximately 30% of women interviewed (N=412) could recall receiving counselling on post-abortion family planning. Nearly two-thirds reported a desire to either space or limit childbearing. Of those who desired to space or limited childbearing, approximately 20% received a contraceptive method before discharge from PAC. The factors significantly associated with post-abortion contraceptive acceptance were completion of primary school, prior use of contraception, receipt of PAC at lower level facilities and recall of post-abortion family planning counselling. Qualitative analysis revealed different layers of contextual influences that shaped women’s fertility desires and contraceptive decision-making during PAC: individual (PAC client), spousal/partner-related, health service-related and societal. While results lend support to the concept that there are opportunities for services to address unmet need for post-abortion family planning, they also attest to the synergistic influences of individual, spousal, organizational and societal factors that influence whether they can be realized during PAC. Several strategies to do so emerged saliently from this analysis. These emphasize customized counselling to enable client–provider communication about fertility preferences, structural intervention aimed at empowering women to assert those objectives in family and health care settings, availability of information and services on post-abortion fertility and contraceptive eligibility in PAC settings and interventions to facilitate constructive spousal communication on family planning and contraceptive use, after abortion and in general.

Addressing fertility desires and preconception care needs of men living with HIV: perspectives from HIV providers about addressing the reproductive needs of male patients

AIDS Care ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 80-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Rodney Short ◽  
Joanne Madeline Simone ◽  
Rana Chakraborty ◽  
Sarah Finocchario-Kessler ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Preconception Care ◽  
Care Needs ◽  
Fertility Desires ◽  
Male Patients ◽  
Living With Hiv
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