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Title Correlates of Fertility Intentions Among HIV/AIDS Patients in Northern Nigeria
Full text http://ajol.info/index.php/ajrh/article/view/55717
Date 2010
Author(s) Z Iliyasu; IS Abubakar; M Kabir; M Babashani; F Shuaib; MH Aliyu
Abstract Little research has been conducted regarding the reproductive intentions of people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) in northern Nigeria. We studied reproductive desires and their predictors among340 PLWHA receiving care at Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital. Of all respondents, 60(70.6%) of males and 177(69.4%) of females were sexually active. Only 65(19.4%) of them used condoms. One hundredand sixty seven females (65.5%) and 52(61.2%) males expressed a desire to have more children. Out of these, 16(7.3%), 106(48.4%) and 88(40.2%) wanted to have one, two and three or more childrenrespectively. Significant predictors of higher fertility desires were; religion (OR=1.8), duration of diagnosis (OR=0.42), low parity (OR=6.03) and awareness of partner's serostatus (OR=2.3). A largeproportion of the HIV-positive individuals in the study were sexually active, desired to have children, and wanted to use family planning, indicating unmet need for reproductive health counseling in generaland family planning in particular (Afr J Reprod Health 2009; 13[3]:71-83).
Subject(s) Fertility desire, PLWHAs, Kano, Nigeria
Language en
Publisher African Journal of Reproductive Health
Type of publication Peer-reviewed Article
Format application/pdf
Source African Journal of Reproductive Health; Vol 13, No 3 (2009)
Rights Copyright for articles published in this journal is retained by Women's Health and Action Research Centre
Repository Africa - African Journals OnLine (AJOL)
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