Task-shifting and family planning continuation: contraceptive trajectories of women who received their method at a community-based event in Kinshasa, DRC.

ABSTRACT: While community-based interventions are a proven high-impact strategy to increase contraceptive uptake in low-income countries, their capacity to support women's contraceptive choices (including continued use, switching and discontinuation) in the long run remains insufficiently discussed. This cohort study follows 883 women 3 and 6 months after they received a modern method during community campaigns organized in Kinshasa (D.R. Congo), to analyze their contraceptive trajectories and the factors associated with ever discontinuing contraceptive use in the first 6 months following a campaign. In the community-based distribution (CBD) model currently institutionalized in DRC, campaign clients are not provided with additional doses or support, besides baseline counseling, to (dis-)continue usi

SUBMITTER: Hernandez JH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9887934 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature