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Exploring provider perspectives on respectful maternity care in Kenya: “Work with what you have”
BACKGROUND: Promoting respect and dignity is a key component of providing quality care during facility-based childbirth and is becoming a …
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Baseline characteristics of study sites and women enrolled in a three-arm cluster randomized controlled trial: PMTCT uptake and retention (pure) Malawi
BACKGROUND: Malawi introduced an ambitious public health program known as "Option B+" which provides all HIV-infected pregnant and breastfeeding women …
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Male reproductive health challenges: appraisal of wives coping strategies
BACKGROUND: Systematic studies on the association between men's sexual dysfunction (low sexual desire, ejaculation disorders, erectile dysfunctions, genital ulcers, testicular …
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Improving detection and initial management of gestational diabetes through the primary level of care in Morocco: protocol for a cluster randomized controlled trial
BACKGROUND: Morocco is facing a growing prevalence of diabetes and according to latest figures of the World Health Organization, already …
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Understanding resilience of female adolescents towards teenage pregnancy: a cross-sectional survey in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
BACKGROUND: In Tanzania, teenage pregnancy rates are still high despite the efforts being made to reduce them. Not enough is …
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Factors associated with intimate partner physical violence among women attending antenatal care in Shire Endaselassie town, Tigray, northern Ethiopia: a cross-sectional study, July 2015
BACKGROUND: Intimate partner physical violence is a common global phenomenon. About 30.00% and 38.83% of women in the world and …
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Availability of family planning services and quality of counseling by faith-based organizations: a three country comparative analysis
BACKGROUND: Faith-based organizations (FBOs) have a long history of providing health services in developing countries and are important contributors to …
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The influence of quality maternity waiting homes on utilization of facilities for delivery in rural Zambia
BACKGROUND: Residential accommodation for expectant mothers adjacent to health facilities, known as maternity waiting homes (MWH), is an intervention designed …
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Respectful maternity care in Ethiopian public health facilities
Disrespect and abuse of women during institutional childbirth services is one of the deterrents to utilization of maternity care services …
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Educational status as determinant of men’s knowledge about vasectomy in Dangila town administration, Amhara region, Northwest Ethiopia
BACKGROUND: Although vasectomy is effective and less expensive contraceptive method, only few men are using it in Africa. The main …
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Determinants of modern contraceptive use among sexually active men in Kenya
BACKGROUND: Research in Kenya has focussed on family planning from women's perspectives, with the aim of helping reduce the burden …
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Uptake of hormonal contraceptives and correlates of uptake in a phase III clinical trial in rural South Western Uganda
BACKGROUND: Use of a reliable contraception method has become an inclusion criterion in prevention trials to minimize time off product. …
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Fertility and HIV following universal access to ART in Rwanda: a cross-sectional analysis of Demographic and Health Survey data
BACKGROUND: HIV infection is linked to decreased fertility and fertility desires in sub-Saharan Africa due to biological and social factors. …
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Effect of suppressive acyclovir administered to HSV-2 positive mothers from week 28 to 36 weeks of pregnancy on adverse obstetric outcomes: a double-blind randomised placebo-controlled trial
BACKGROUND: Acyclovir (ACV) given to HSV-2 positive women after 36 weeks reduces adverse outcomes but its benefit at lower gestation …
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Sexual and reproductive health experience, knowledge and problems among university students in Ambo, central Ethiopia
BACKGROUND: Youths in universities are at high risk of STIs and SRH problems in Ethiopia. However, students did not perceive …
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Qualitative assessment of women’s satisfaction with maternal health care in referral hospitals in Nigeria
BACKGROUND: Available evidence suggests that the low use of antenatal, delivery, and post-natal services by Nigerian women may be due …
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Perspectives of urban Ghanaian women on vasectomy
BACKGROUND: Advocacy for male involvement in family planning has been championed over the years after the 1994 International Conference on …
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Moving from legality to reality: how medical abortion methods were introduced with implementation science in Zambia
BACKGROUND: Although abortion is technically legal in Zambia, the reality is far more complicated. This study describes the process and …
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Factors associated with contraceptive use in Tigray, North Ethiopia
BACKGROUND: Family planning interventions are cost-effective and have several cross-cutting benefits. Despite these benefits of family planning, progress in ensuring …
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Reasons for unmet need for family planning, with attention to the measurement of fertility preferences: protocol for a multi-site cohort study
BACKGROUND: Unmet need for family planning points to the gap between women's reproductive desire to avoid pregnancy and contraceptive behaviour. …