How a co-design process led to more contextually relevant family planning interventions in emerging urban settings in Eastern Uganda.

ABSTRACT: Voluntary, rights-based family planning upholds women's right to determine freely the number and spacing of their children. However, low-resource settings like Uganda still face a high unmet need for family planning. And, while urban areas are often indicated to have better access to health services, emerging evidence is revealing intra-urban socio-economic differentials in family planning utilization. To address the barriers to contraceptive use in these settings, understanding community-specific challenges and involving them in tailored intervention design is crucial. This paper describes the use of co-design, a human-centred design tool, to develop context-specific interventions that promote voluntary family planning in urban settings in Eastern Uganda. A five-stage co-design approach w

SUBMITTER: Ssanyu JN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10540946 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature