Sustaining Use Through Voice and Choice
Sustaining Use Through Voice and Choice: How Structured Counselling Improved Contraceptive Continuation Among Married Adolescents in Nigeria
Addressing Normative and Systemic Barriers to Sustainable Contraceptive Uptake and Continuation by Adolescents
Addressing Normative and Systemic Barriers to Sustainable Contraceptive Uptake and Continuation by Adolescents: Lessons from Engaging Ward Development Committees in northern Nigeria.
Quality of Contraceptive Counseling for Adolescent Girls in Ethiopia, Kenya, and Nigeria:
In this brief, we present findings from the Method Information Index Plus (MII+) based on three rounds of annual client exit interviews in Ethiopia, Kenya, and Nigeria. These findings illustrate how Adolescents 360 (A360) interventions performed on this measure of contraceptive counseling quality over time. All data was gathered from public health care facilities, with […]
Person-Centered Measurement: Ensuring Prioritization of Individuals’ Values, Needs, and Preferences Within the Global Contraceptive Measurement Ecosystem
Claire W. Rothschild, Kelsey Holt, Funmilola M. OlaOlorun, Julius Njogu, Abednego Musau, Christine Dehlendorf First published: 23 June 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1111/sifp.70023 Claire W. Rothschild, Population Services International, Washington, DC 20036, USA. Email: [email protected]. Kelsey Holt, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA. Funmilola M. OlaOlorun, Department of Community Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria. […]
From Herbs to Maternal Healthcare: Zulfatu’s Journey
Married at 15, 17-year-old Zulfatu Yahaya from Jigawa State has had three miscarriages. This is because she believes in traditional healing, herbs and roots. “I didn’t believe in Western medicine or clinics.” She was in hospital at the time of writing this article; seven months pregnant, another pregnancy gone wrong. This particular one started at […]
I WANT TO BE A SENIOR PLUMBER
Whenever Sada* talks to young girls her age or younger, they are most fascinated by the fact that she wants to be a plumber. Because “girls don’t do such jobs,” they tell her. She is adamant and averse to the idea that people should be “chosen for jobs that they should or shouldn’t do.” She […]
MY LESSON IN PREGNANCY; ANTENATAL CLINICS ARE IMPORTANT!
17-year-old Maimuna Salihu is pregnant. This isn’t an isolated occurrence in Andaza, Jigawa State, Northwest of Nigeria. What might be uncommon is how she is feeling. She’s often sick; she has difficulty breathing, dizziness, lethargy, and general malice. She sometimes vomits, loses her appetite, and spends her days either sleeping or thinking about sleep. “These […]
I LEARNED HOW TO DO BUSINESS
My name is Hana Markos, and I’m 19 years old. I’m a member of Kemisie’s VSLA at Teza Gereba Kebele in Kedida Gamela District, Central Ethiopia. Having dropped out in Grade 10 and immediately got married, I never finished school because I thought it would be easier to be a wife than a student. I […]