Youth accessing reproductive health services in Malawi: drivers, barriers, and suggestions from the perspectives of youth and parents.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Malawi has made progress in increasing its overall modern contraceptive prevalence rate since 2000, resulting in a dramatic reduction in its total fertility rate. However, youth, 15-24 years, have not had the same successes. Teenage pregnancies are on the rise and little progress has been made in reducing unmet need for family planning among youth. With two-thirds of the population under the age of 25 and with Malawi's rapid population growth, reducing unmet need for family planning among youth remains a priority for the government's reproductive health agenda. To further explore this situation, we conducted a qualitative study to explore the perspectives of youth and adults about the drivers and barriers to youth accessing family planning in Malawi and their ideas to im

SUBMITTER: Self A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6008927 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature