The 2006 Uganda Demographic and Health Survey (UDHS) is a nationally representative survey of 8531 women age 15-49 and 2503 men age 15-54. The UDHS is the fourth comprehensive survey conducted in Uganda as part of the worldwide Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) project. The primary ...
Objectives: To derive the best possible estimates of trends in age at first sex (AFS) among successive cohorts of Ugandan men and women based on all the data available from the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) and cohort studies in Masaka and Rakai districts. Methods: The datasets from ...
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Knowledge of contraceptives in Uganda is nearly universal, according to the 2016 Demographic and Health Survey (UDHS), with 99% of both men and women having heard of at least one modern method of contraception [9]. However, factors such as median age at sexual debut and age at first marri...
Methods: The study is based on data from the 2006, 2011, and 2016 Uganda Demographic and Health Surveys (UDHS). Multilevel binary logistic regressions were used to examine the influence of different demographic, behavioral, and socioeconomic factors on poor women's demand for family planning. ...
In Uganda, the prevalence is low among adolescent females, only 9.4% were found to be using MCM from Uganda Demographic and Health Survey (UDHS) data (Sserwanja, Musaba, & Mukunya [30]), and over 24% of girls aged between 15 and 19 are already having children [21]. In addition, ...
The Uganda Demographic and Health Survey 2016 shows that girls start giving birth early, one in four girls aged 15-19 have either given birth or are pregnant with their first child. Reacting to the high teenage pregnancy levels, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni urged leaders to sensitize the ...
Similarly, data from the latest Uganda Demographic and Health survey indicated that the likelihood of taking optimal doses of IPTp-SP was increased among those who attended ANC ≥ 4 times [24]. These findings corroborate those of a study conducted in Ghana where women who attended ANC 4 ...
According to the Uganda demographic and health survey (UDHS) 2011, the poverty index is higher in the northern region than elsewhere in the country and sanitation, transport, infrastructure and healthcare services are often lacking [17]. Agago District in northern Uganda has an estimated total ...
The proportion of inpatient and outpatient visits per facility type as reported in the Uganda Demographic and Health Survey (UDHS) 2005/06 [13] is thus used to split the recorded utilisationb. Unit costs for public and NGO/PNFP providers are obtained from a costing study by the Ministry of...