Fertility preservation and protection
Young women’s decision-making about contraceptive use in Zimbabwe
Bibliographic Data
The study explored social and health system influences on young women's decision-making about family planning in a community setting with low uptake. Seventy-two semi-structured interviews were conducted between April 2020 and November 2021, with both young women accessing, and healthcare workers providing, a community-based integrated package of HIV and sexual and reproductive health services (CHIEDZA) in Zimbabwe. Data were thematically analysed. Although long-acting contraception was freely available as part of the CHIEDZA initiative, uptake was low. Young women's contraception choices were influenced by a desired reproductive sequence, which reflected prevailing social norms and was conveyed by peers and female relatives. Nulliparous young women preferred short-term contraception and avoided hormonal contraceptives prepartum to 'preserve' their fertility. Once fertility had been confirmed within marriage through the birth of a child, hormonal contraceptive use became socially permissible. Healthcare workers, cognisant of community discourse, sensitively proposed alternative approaches. Increasing the availability of correct and adequate information and commodities is critical to improving the uptake of contraceptives for young women, but it is insufficient alone. Recognising and responding to local contextual understandings which frame considerations of appropriateness is paramount. Successful implementation of family planning interventions requires engaging with social norms and the influential groups that perpetuate them
Environmental health · Family medicine · Family planning · Fertility · Gynecology · Hormonal contraception · Population · Psychological intervention · Reproductive health · Research methodology · Sociology · Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health · Gender Studies · Global Maternal and Child Health · Medicine · Nursing · Psychology · Reproductive Health and Contraception
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