Background: Access to safe and effective contraception is crucial for sexual and reproductive health to be at its best. This allows improved pregnancy results and the avoidance of unintended births. Teenagers’ views ...
Background: Long-acting and reversible contraceptive methods hold great potential as solutions to address the unmet need for contraception and the significant discontinuation rates, especially in sub-Saharan Africa. A...
Background: Low contraceptive use among all other factors have been implicated in rapid population growth seen in low and lower middle-income countries (LLMICs). This can be attributed to poor knowledge and attitude o...
Introduction: Intrauterine contraceptive device (IUCD) is an effective long acting reversible contraceptive but its use is low. This study examined factors contributing to the utilization of intrauterine contraceptive...
Background: Efforts have been made in Burkina Faso, a French-speaking country, since 2010 to improve healthcare access and provide affordable contraceptive methods to women. With the increasing prevalence of modern co...
Background: Globally, university students fall in the youth group prone to unattended sexual risks which may lead to unwanted pregnancy and STI/HIV. In Cameroon, more than a third of maternal deaths occur among adoles...
Background: In developing countries, access to modern contraceptive methods remains a concern, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Although satisfactory progress in increasing family planning use has been observ...
Introduction: Maternal mortality, which is estimated at 614 deaths per 100,000 births in Côte d’Ivoire, is associated with a low national contraceptive prevalence rate of 13.9%. In this study, we are interested ...
funded by the African Union/European Development Fund(EcoRodMan:AURGII/1/006/2016);support from the International Partnership Programme of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(Grant No.152111KYSB20160089)。
The black rat is considered one of the world’s top pests.With increased restrictions on rodenticides,new alternatives to manage rats are urgently needed.Research on the use of contraceptive hormones,levonorgestrel(LE...
All experiments followed the guidelines of the American Society of Mammalogists(Sikes et al.2016);The protocol and procedures employed were ethically reviewed and approved by the Institute of Zoology(IOZ-IACUC-2021-093);The study was supported by the International Partnership Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences,Grant No.152111KYSB20160089.
The ricefield rat,Rattus argentiventer,is a significant pest of rice in Southeast Asia.Fertility control methods have the potential to provide safe and effective alternatives to control methods that often include indisc...