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Prevalence and Factors Associated with Contraceptive Use Among Kenyan Women Aged 15–49 Years

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Uptake of contraceptives is generally low in low-income settings. For women with HIV, contraception is a reliable and affordable method of minimizing vertical transmission. We investigated the factors that affect contraceptive use among Kenyan women using data collected during the Kenya Demographic & Health Survey (KDHS) of 2014. Data on contraceptive use were extracted from the 2014 KDHS database. Records of 31,079 Kenyan women of reproductive age (15–49 years) were analyzed. Frequencies were calculated; cross-tabulations and bivariate and multivariate analyses were conducted. Twelve thousand thirty-two women (39%) reported using a contraceptive method. Region, religion, education, number of living children, marital status, and prior testing for HIV were significantly associated with contraceptive use among women (P < 0.001). Social, economic, and demographic factors predict contraceptive use among Kenyan women and should be addressed in order to increase contraceptive uptake.

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Acknowledgement

We wish to acknowledge support from the University of California, San Francisco’s International Traineeships in AIDS Prevention Studies (ITAPS), U.S. NIMH, and R25MH064712. International Aids Vaccine Initiative, Kenya Aids Vaccine Initiative-Institute of Clinical Trials, Measure DHS, and Kenya National Bureau of Statistics We wish to acknowledge Debbie Bain Brickley for her invaluable contribution towards this paper.

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  1. KAVI-Institute of Clinical Research, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya

    Laura L. Lunani

  2. MRC/UVRI, Uganda Research Unit on AIDS, Entebbe, Uganda

    Andrew Abaasa

  3. School of Medicine, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya

    Gloria Omosa-Manyonyi

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We made a request to MEASURE DHS (Monitoring and Evaluation to Assess and Use Results of Demographic and Health Surveys program) for authorization to work on the KDHS 2014 data set. This was granted and a link to access the data set was provided.

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Secondary data collected by DHS program was utilized for analysis in this study. Therefore ethical approval and consent for participating was not applicable.

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Lunani, L.L., Abaasa, A. & Omosa-Manyonyi, G. Prevalence and Factors Associated with Contraceptive Use Among Kenyan Women Aged 15–49 Years. AIDS Behav 22 (Suppl 1), 125–130 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10461-018-2203-5

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