Kilifi men refuse to embrace family planning method
Unlike women, men in Kilifi county have completely sidelined family planning methods something that has been attributed to enduring misconceptions and traditional beliefs among them. This is in spite of an ongoing sensitization in the county about the various methods of contraceptives to embrace which include; male and female condoms, pills, IUDs, hormonal implants, and […]
Most elite Kiambu women use old family planning methods – survey
Some eight per cent of wealthy and educated Kiambu County women are using traditional family planning methods, a survey released by Performance and Monitoring for Action (PMA) has revealed. Family Planning Data The research whose data were collected between November and December 2021 from 867 households indicates that most wealthy women opt for periodic abstinence and […]
How ‘safe’ are you on your your birth control pill?
About one-third of women using contraception use the pill. But how effective is the birth control pill? There are two types of contraceptive pill – the combined pill, containing oestrogen and progestogen, and the progestogen-only-pill (often referred to as the mini-pill). While most evidence about pill effectiveness relates to the combined pill, both pill types are quoted as […]