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Enablers and barriers of male involvement in the use of modern family planning methods in Eastern Uganda: a qualitative study

Contraception and Reproductive Medicine, 2023
Background Male involvement plays a critical role in the utilization of various sexual and reproductive health services. We explored enablers and barriers of male involvement in the use of modern family planning methods in Eastern Uganda.
Atkinson Tekakwo, Rose Chalo Nabirye, Ritah Nantale, Faith Oguttu, Brendah Nambozo, Solomon Wani, Milton W. Musaba, David Mukunya, Joshua Epuitai   +8 more
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Male partners’ involvement in pregnancy related care among married men in Ibadan, Nigeria [PDF]

Reproductive Health, 2020
Abstract Background Maternal death remains a public health burden in the developing countries including Nigeria and the major causes are pregnancy related. Lack of male involvement in pregnancy related care is one of the contributing factors. Previous studies on male involvement focused on family planning services and were majorly targeted at women ...
Olayinka Falade-Fatila, Ayodeji Matthew Adebayo   +1 more
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Knowledge, attitudes, and practices of male partners on antenatal human immunodeficiency virus screening for the prevention of mother-to-child human immunodeficiency virus transmission in a private tertiary hospital

Philippine Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 2021
Background: Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) transmission remains to be a significant problem in the country despite preventive efforts in the past years. In children, mother-to-child vertical transmission during pregnancy is the most common route. The
Ann Janelle M. Sangalang, Lyra Ruth Clemente-Chua   +1 more
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Male partner involvement in prenatal and postnatal care [PDF]

, 2021
Programs for the Prevention of Mother-to-child-transmission of HIV (PMTCT) in rural South Africa face multiple challenges and have thus been less effective compared to PMTCT programs in urban areas. Male partner involvement (MPI) in PMTCT during prenatal and postnatal care is one of the crucial factors that can help to improve the effectiveness of ...
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Male partner involvements in PMTCT: a cross sectional study, Mekelle, Northern Ethiopia [PDF]

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2014
تعد مشاركة الشركاء الذكور عنصراً حاسماً لتحسين الرعاية السابقة للولادة/الوقاية من انتقال فيروس نقص المناعة البشرية من الأم إلى الطفل. إنه يخلق فرصة لالتقاط الأمهات الحوامل وشركائهن الذكور لعكس انتقال فيروس نقص المناعة البشرية أثناء الحمل والولادة والرضاعة الطبيعية. وبالتالي فإن إشراك الشركاء الذكور أثناء فحص فيروس نقص المناعة البشرية للأمهات الحوامل في
Haile, Fisaha, Brhan, Yemane
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Increasing Partner Attendance in Antenatal Care and HIV Testing Services: Comparable Outcomes Using Written versus Verbal Invitations in an Urban Facility-Based Controlled Intervention Trial in Mbeya, Tanzania. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2016
In many Sub-Saharan African settings male partner involvement in antenatal care (ANC) remains low, although great benefits for maternal and infant health outcomes have been long recognised, in particular regarding the prevention of HIV transmission.
Stefanie Theuring, Laura F Jefferys, Philo Nchimbi, Paulina Mbezi, Julius Sewangi   +4 more
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Male partner involvement in female contraceptive choices in Nigeria

Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 2014
Opposition by male partners is one of the barriers to contraceptive use in sub-Saharan Africa. The study aimed at determining the extent of male partner involvement in female contraceptive (FP) choices in Enugu, south-east Nigeria. Questionnaires were administered to 243 consecutive women attendee of family planning clinic, University of Nigeria ...
L O, Ajah, C C, Dim, H U, Ezegwui, C A, Iyoke, E O, Ugwu   +4 more
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Involving male partners in maternity care in Burkina Faso: a randomized controlled trial [PDF]

Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2018
To determine whether an intervention to involve the male partners of pregnant women in maternity care influenced care-seeking, healthy breastfeeding and contraceptive practices after childbirth in urban Burkina Faso.In a non-blinded, multicentre, parallel-group, superiority trial, 1144 women were assigned by simple randomization to two study arms: 583 ...
Daniele, M., Ganaba, R., Sarrassat, S., Cousens, S., Rossier, C., Drabo, S., Ouedraogo, D., Filippi, V.   +7 more
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Perceptions of Men on Male Partners Involvement in Maternal and Child Health: An Analysis of Kuria East SubCounty, Migori County, Kenya

Pan-African Journal of Health and Environmental Science, 2023
Background: Male partner involvement is critical to maternal and child health outcomes. In Kenya, male partners are entitled to a two-week paternal leave with full pay to encourage male partner support in antenatal and postpartum care services ...
Maureen Kwamboka Nyabuto, Taji Isindu Shivachi, John Odero Sibuor, Wilson A.P. Otengah   +3 more
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Correlates of maternal, newborn and child health services uptake, including male partner involvement: Baseline survey results from Bangladesh

Global Public Health, 2023
South Asia bears a substantial proportion of the global maternal mortality burden, with adolescents disproportionately affected. Bangladesh has one of the highest adolescent pregnancy rates in the world, with low utilisation of maternal newborn and child
Souradet Y. Shaw, Elsabé du Plessis, Rudy Broers, Sugirtha Vasavithasan, Saadya Hamdani, Lisa Avery   +5 more
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