CGPH AFFILIATED FACULTY: Ndola Prata
DATE OF PUBLICATION: July 2013
REGION: Africa (sub-Saharan Africa)
REFERENCE: Prata N, Weidert K, Sreenivas A. Meeting the need: youth and family planning in sub-Saharan Africa. Contraception. 2013 Jul;88(1):83-90. doi: 10.1016/j.contraception.2012.10.001.
SUMMARY/ABSTRACT: The need for a concerted effort to address the gaps in family planning services for youth in sub-Saharan Africa has been underreported and underexplored. Trends in fertility, childbearing, unmet need for family planning options and contraceptive prevalence (CP) among youth are described with data from six African countries with four consecutive Demographic and Health Surveys. Estimates of exposure to risk of pregnancy and number of new contraceptives users needed to maintain and double CP in 2015 are calculated using current CP and projected youth population size in six African countries.
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