Provider determinants of emergency contraceptive counseling and provision in Kenya and Ethiopia

Judge, Shana M.; Peterman, Amber; Keesbury, Jill

doi:10.1016/j.contraception.2010.09.005

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“…A 2015 review of improving access to emergency contraception through workforce interventions found widespread misconceptions among providers, including the belief that it was an abortifacient or that access to it would increase sexual activity among adolescents 25 . Using survey data in Kenya and Ethiopia to explore bias around emergency contraception, Judge et al 26 found that counseling on and provision of emergency contraception was positively associated with providers' greater level of knowledge of the method, indicating that increasing provider knowledge can potentially contribute to offsetting some of the bias and improving access.…”

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Provider Bias in Family Planning Services: A Review of Its Meaning and Manifestations

Solo

Festin

2019

Glob Health Sci Pract

133

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Provider Bias in Family Planning Services: A Review of Its Meaning and Manifestations

Solo

Festin

2019

Glob Health Sci Pract

133

117

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“…Proper provider training is also essential to prevent providers from limiting the options available for young women. In Kenya and Ethiopia for instance, Judge and colleagues 25 found that the counseling and provision of emergency contraceptives was positively associated with a greater level of knowledge of the provider of this particular method. Therefore, an increase in knowledge of the providers should allow the clients to have better access to contraception.…”

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Young Women’s Access to and Use of Contraceptives: The Role of Providers’ Restrictions in Urban Senegal

Sidze¹,

Lardoux²,

Speizer³

et al. 2014

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Family planning services were introduced in Senegal in the early 1960s at the private Blue Cross Clinic in Dakar, but it was only in 1981 that the government developed an administrative structure capable of directing a national program and began to provide information, education and counseling support and family planning services. Factors contributing to unmet need for family planning in developing countries include lack of contraceptive knowledge; poor quality of and access to family planning services; method cost; women's concerns about side effects; and women's, husbands' or family members' objections to contraceptive use. 4,5 According to a descriptive analysis of Urban Reproductive Health Initiative data, women's beliefs and misconceptions about contraceptives, husbands' objections to contraceptive use and the poor quality of family planning services are the most frequent reasons deterring women in urban Senegal from practicing contraception. 6Youth constitute a key target in reproductive health strategies and, in Senegal, appear to have particularly low levels of contraceptive use. For example, in 2010-2011, only 2% of all 15-19-year-olds and 6% of all 20-24-yearolds reported using a modern method; 2 the proportions among currently married women in those age-groups were slightly higher (5% and 8%, respectively). Access to reproductive health services remains an issue for young women

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“…Other health system challenges beyond the price and availability of the commodities at the health facility, which were not measured in this research, also influence accessibility. These challenges include policy and regulatory issues, infrastructural issues, lack of knowledge amongst the population and healthcare workers, cultural beliefs, and lack of skilled healthcare workers [25,[58][59][60][61][62][63][64][65][66][67]. The physical availability of an ultrasound scan, for example, does not mean it is routinely used or functional; lack of healthcare workers trained in its use, lack of electricity or high user costs are also barriers [61].…”

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Access to sexual and reproductive health commodities in East and Southern Africa: a cross-country comparison of availability, affordability and stock-outs in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia

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Background: Access to sexual and reproductive health services continues to be a public health concern in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia: use of modern contraceptives is low, and unmet family planning needs and maternal mortality remain high. This study is an assessment of the availability, affordability and stock-outs of essential sexual and reproductive health commodities (SRHC) in these countries to inform interventions to improve access.

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Provider determinants of emergency contraceptive counseling and provision in Kenya and Ethiopia

Cited by 16 publications

References 9 publications

Provider Bias in Family Planning Services: A Review of Its Meaning and Manifestations

Provider Bias in Family Planning Services: A Review of Its Meaning and Manifestations

Young Women’s Access to and Use of Contraceptives: The Role of Providers’ Restrictions in Urban Senegal

Access to sexual and reproductive health commodities in East and Southern Africa: a cross-country comparison of availability, affordability and stock-outs in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia

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