%0 Journal Article
%T Unmet need for contraception among HIV
%A Ebunoluwa A Adejuyigbe
%A Kayode T Ijaduola
%A Temitope Omoladun Okunola
%J Tropical Doctor
%@ 1758-1133
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/0049475518809605
%X As mother-to-child transmission of HIV is difficult to predict and also hard to prevent in practice, pregnancy among women living with HIV/AIDS (WHA) needs to be taken with considerable aforethought. The prevention of unwanted pregnancy among WHA is therefore a public health issue. The aim of our study was to determine the unmet need for contraception among HIV-positive women and the associated factors. Ours was a cross-sectional study involving 425 non-pregnant WHA attending an adult HIV clinic in Nigeria. Interviewer-administered, structured questionnaires designed for the study were used to obtain data. The contraceptive uptake was 47% while the unmet need for contraception was 20%. There were significant associations between unmet need for contraception and age group (P£¿<£¿0.001), religion (P£¿<£¿0.001), ethnic group (P£¿<£¿0.001), knowledge about contraceptives (P£¿=£¿0.02), educational status (P£¿=£¿0.01) and partners¡¯ retroviral status (P£¿=£¿0.008) The unmet need for contraception was high. Advocacy programs should perhaps be focused on older women, Christians and those with little or no education
%K Unmet need for contraception
%K unplanned pregnancy
%K HIV/AIDS
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0049475518809605