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  • Title: Survey finds low contraceptive use among sexually active youth.
    Journal: Netw Res Triangle Park N C; 1988; 10(1):6. PubMed ID: 12281890.
    Abstract:
    This article reviews a survey of sexually active youth in the Banjul region of the Gambia, which was conducted by the Gambian Family Planning Association. Its aim was to help the association develop, evaluate, and improve programs for young people by providing information about fertility, contraceptive use, and reproductive health problems among young people. Subjects were 1678 single and married women between the ages of 14 and 24, and 834 single men in the same age range. Interviews were given between November 1986 and February 1987. 1 of every 4 single women and 3 of every 4 men surveyed had ever been sexually active. 1/2 of the sexually active single women had become pregnant at least once, and more than 2/3 of those pregnancies had been unwanted. Sexually active single females reported the highest level of contraceptive use -- greater than 50%, compared to 38% of ever married women and 46% of sexually active single men. Among the sexually active, 28% of married females, 68% of single females, and 35% of single males said that they or their partner were currently using contraceptives. 40% of sexually active single women said they had never used contraceptives because of lack of knowledge about family planning, and 20% cited lack of knowledge and 46% lack of access as their main reasons for never using contraceptives. Knowledge of reproduction and reproductive health was also lacking.
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