Better-Educated Youth as a Vanguard of Social Change? Adolescent Transitions to Later Marriage and Lower Fertility in Southwest Ethiopia

The uniqueness of the Ethiopian demographictransition within sub-Saharan Africa:multiple responses to population pressure,and preconditions for rural fertility declineand capturing the demographic dividend

“…paths to individual capabilities, lifetime goals, i.e., ("agency") and social mobility (see Herman et al 2011) …”

Evaluation of Factors that Contribute to Low Utilization of Methods for Family Planning Among Adolescents at Adjumani Hospital, Adjumani District

“…Exclusion Criteria The study did not consider any adolescent aged below 12 Interviewer administered questionnaire were used to collect from the respondent who did not understand English with the help of Researcher.…”

“…Globally, approximately 80 million unintended pregnancies worldwide are accounted for low utilization of family planning methods during adolescent and postpartum period [9]. It is also estimated that 350 million couples worldwide lack access to the full range of modern FP methods [10][11][12][13]. In India, 55 million unintended pregnancies occur every year to women not using FP method; another 25 million occur due to incorrect or inconsistent use of FP method and method failure [14].…”

Awareness, Approach and Practice of Youth towards preclusion of Sexually Transmitted Infections at KIU-TH, Ishaka Bushenyi District

“…The knowledge of youths about the prevention of STIs is poor yet they have risky sexual practices such as poor use of protective measures and having multiple sexual partners among others [8]. In Africa, although countries such as Botswana and Ghana have made significant progress in providing testing and treatment of most sexually transmitted diseases, the rate of infection of STIs among youth remains high and research shows that there is 45% rise in STI cases among youth aged 15 -25 years [13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20]. Furthermore, despite this progress, there is still limited utilization of the screening services and the infection rate was attributed to many factors such as risky sexual practices such as involvement with multiple sexual partners, sexual networking as well as cultural practices such as wife inheritance [11, [14][15][16][17][18].…”

“…Furthermore, despite this progress, there is still limited utilization of the screening services and the infection rate was attributed to many factors such as risky sexual practices such as involvement with multiple sexual partners, sexual networking as well as cultural practices such as wife inheritance [11, [14][15][16][17][18]. Similarly, in East African countries such as Kenya and Tanzania, although testing and treatment services for sexually transmitted diseases are provided at most health centers, the rate of STI infection among youth remains high [19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26]. This was influenced by various factors including inadequate knowledge about the effective use of preventive measures such as condoms, gender roles, risky sexual practices such sexual networking, having multiple partners as well as misperceptions about condom use among others [22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30].…”