Document Type
Brief
Publication Date
2012
Abstract
This brief reports on a study in Nigeria to document provider attitudes, beliefs, and practices regarding emergency contraception (ECP), and to identify key opinion leaders’ opinions and insights pertaining to policy and programmatic issues in that country. Findings reveal that ECP is well known in urban Nigeria. Its provision is controlled mainly by the largely unregulated and unmonitored private sector. Government plays a distant role, thereby leaving family planning and ECP supply almost entirely in the hands of donor agencies. For wider availability and affordability of ECP products in both the private and public sectors, official policy action is required, along with increased education of potential users and providers.
Recommended Citation
Ahonsi, Babatunde A. O. , Salisu Mohammed Ishaku, Araoyinbo Idowu, and Ayodeji Oginni. 2012. "Providers' and key opinion leaders' attitudes, beliefs, and practices regarding emergency contraception in Nigeria: Key findings," program brief. New York: Population Council.
DOI
10.31899/rh2.1065
Language
English
Project
Revitalizing the Emergency Contraception Agenda
Included in
Demography, Population, and Ecology Commons, Health Policy Commons, International Public Health Commons, Public Health Education and Promotion Commons, Women's Health Commons