Contraceptive use among women living with HIV enrolled for the birth cohort study
The study focused on contraceptive use among women living with HIV enrolled for the birth cohort study. Also core to the study was an analysis of the factors that have facilitated the use of contraception amongst women living with HIV. There is a knowledge gap and limited research and on contrace...
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Midlands State University
2019
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/11408/3659 |
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| Summary: | The study focused on contraceptive use among women living with HIV enrolled
for the birth cohort study. Also core to the study was an analysis of the factors
that have facilitated the use of contraception amongst women living with HIV.
There is a knowledge gap and limited research and on contraception use among
women living with HIV. The study was guided by a conceptual framework that
shows the various factors that could predict the utilization of contraception. The
research adopted a quantitative and qualitative approach and the target
population for the study was 1111 women from four clinics, Rujeko, Kwadzana,
Budiriro, and Glenview enrolled for the study. Amongst the women 571 were
positive. The research was also extended to key service provider in order to
hear their views. Purposive sampling was used in order to select relevant
respondents for the qualitative part of the study and thematic analysis was used
to analyse the data. For the quantitative part of the study participants` data was
obtained from University of Zimbabwe immunology department and it was
analysed through excel and SPSS. The findings from the study demonstrated
that Contraception use is generally high in Zimbabwe. Women living with HIV
and women without HIV have similar patterns in contraception use and both
use oral contraception pills mostly. The HIV positive women seem to be using
condoms more than their counterparts. There is a knowledge gap however on
hormonal contraceptive. Recommendations were made to the ministry of health
to enhance family planning services so that they offer extensive education on
use of various contraception. Midlands State University to take the opportunity
to use the research finding of contraception use for its student family planning
clinic through education, posters and online sites.Invovlment of man in family
planning to support women living with HIV and clear misconceptions and
myths. Lastly for service provider to inform the women of the combination of
using hormonal family planning when on ART. |
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