A Review of 10 Years of Vasectomy Programming and Research in Low-Resource Settings.

ABSTRACT: Vasectomy is a highly effective and safe contraceptive method for couples who want to stop childbearing, but only 2.4% of men around the world use this method. We conducted an extensive review of the vasectomy research literature and programmatic reports, published between April 2005 and April 2015, to synthesize barriers and facilitators to vasectomy adoption. Of the more than 230 documents initially retrieved in our search, we ultimately included 75 documents in our review and synthesized the findings according to the Supply-Enabling Environment-Demand (SEED) Programming Model. Regarding promoting demand for vasectomy services, we found there was a general lack of awareness about the method among both men and women, which often fueled erroneous assumptions about how vasectomy affects men

SUBMITTER: Shattuck D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5199180 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature