Unpacking the Barriers to Reproductive Health Services in Ghana: HIV/STI Testing,
            Abortion and Contraception

Thatte, Nandita; Bingenheimer, Jeffrey B.; Ndiaye, Khadidiatou; Rimal, Rajiv N.

doi:10.29063/ajrh2016/v20i2.6

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“…Knowledge of facilities offering reproductive health services showed that hospitals were the most recognized source of reproductive health services followed by the university clinic. This is similar to Thatte et al [ 24 ] in a study on barriers to reproductive health services in Ghana, Dickson-Tetteh et al [ 25 ] in South Africa and Godia et al [ 26 ] in Kenya.…”

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confidence: 88%

Reproductive health knowledge among college students in Kenya

Mbugua

Karonjo

2018

BMC Public Health

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BackgroundReproductive health knowledge is vital in the growth and development of young people and this impact greatly on their educational and personal outcome as they proceed to adulthood. There has been an increasing occurrence of sexually transmitted infections in institutions of higher learning. The study sought out the strategies used by university students to prevent unplanned pregnancy and determined their knowledge of contraception methods and sexually transmitted infections in Mount Kenya University, main campus.MethodsStratified sampling was employed. After a signed consent was obtained, a self-administered questionnaire was used to collect data. Data were explored, analyzed and percentages used to quantify the level of knowledge. Pearson’s chi-square was used to measure associations between categorical variables and independent t-test used to measure the means and relationships of continuous variables.ResultsCondom use was established as the most prevalent strategy in prevention of unplanned pregnancy at 48.5 and 46.4% in prevention of STI and HIV/AIDS. Almost two thirds (58%) of respondents reported that they were conversant with only one method of contraception, 60% had knowledge of more than two types of STIs, and 62.4% indicated that they were conversant with only hospitals as facilities providing reproductive health services.ConclusionYoung people in college require educational initiatives to sensitize them on STI, methods of contraception and positive social behaviors. There is need to improve the accessibility of reproductive health services through strengthening of services provided at campus health clinics.

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confidence: 88%

Reproductive health knowledge among college students in Kenya

Mbugua

Karonjo

2018

BMC Public Health

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“…From [38,39,47], and two used only participants in school [32,34]. One study recruited only participants from out of school [41].…”

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“…One combined school and community [45] and the other combined clinic and households [49]. Also, two articles focused on only females [40,42] whilst one focused on only male [38] and the remaining eighteen considered both gender.…”

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Young people’s experiences in accessing sexual and reproductive health services in sub-Saharan Africa from 1994 to 2019 - A content analysis

Watara¹,

Abu²,

Yidana³

et al. 2020

Int J Sex Reprod Health Care

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Two and a half decades after the International Conference on Population and Development in 1994, access to Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH) services by young people is very low, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) despite the increasing resources being targeted at addressing the SRH needs of young people. This paper focuses on the needs and experiences of young people in accessing SRH services in SSA. Using a content analysis tool, this paper focused on review of published articles on barriers to SRH services, access and utilisation among young people in SSA from 1994 to 2019. Guided by the focus of the analysis, 21 studies out of 257 were fi nally selected, and fi ndings presented from

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“…; Thatte et al. ). Improving access to contraception, and offering a diverse range of contraceptive options, for young and unmarried women and men would acknowledge that contraception is needed not just to space or stop having births but also to delay the start of childbearing.…”

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Birth Planning and Women's and Men's Health in Malawi

Yeatman¹,

Smith‐Greenaway²

2018

Studies in Family Planning

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Despite the frequency with which it occurs, we know little about unintended fertility in sub-Saharan Africa and even less about its implications for the health of the women and men who experience it. We use longitudinal data from southern Malawi to explore how young adults report on the planning of their births and to identify changes in their self-rated health and subjective well-being associated with having more- or less-planned births. Our data feature a comprehensive scale of pregnancy planning, the London Measure of Unplanned Pregnancy (LMUP), that extends beyond the conventional focus on timing-based pregnancy intentions to incorporate information about contraception, desires, intentions, partner discussion, and preconception preparations. Women and men have similar bimodal distributions on the LMUP, with the majority of births clearly unplanned or planned but a sizeable minority that falls in the middle. Change score models demonstrate that, for women, an unplanned birth is associated with a decline in self-rated health. In contrast, men whose births were ambivalently-planned experience a decline in subjective well-being. Our findings highlight the value of considering the full spectrum of birth planning and demonstrate the health consequences of unplanned fertility for both women and men in this sub-Saharan context.

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Unpacking the Barriers to Reproductive Health Services in Ghana: HIV/STI Testing, Abortion and Contraception

Cited by 11 publications

References 14 publications

Reproductive health knowledge among college students in Kenya

Reproductive health knowledge among college students in Kenya

Young people’s experiences in accessing sexual and reproductive health services in sub-Saharan Africa from 1994 to 2019 - A content analysis

Birth Planning and Women's and Men's Health in Malawi

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