Similar findings were reported in another study conducted in Ethiopia which found a contraceptive prevalence rate of 30.2%, suggesting a high risk of unintended pregnancy. In Malawi, one study found that only 51.2% of WLHIV used some form of contraception, suggesting that up to 49% of WLHIV were at risk of getting unintended pregnancies. For instance, in Uganda, women not only have high HIV prevalence but also report high fertility levels with women living with HIV (WLHIV) reporting equally high levels of unintended pregnancy ranging from 51 to 84%.
In many African countries, many women are at risk for HIV infection and unintended pregnancy at the same time. However, only a handful of women living with HIV have taken any credible steps to stop unplanned pregnancies partly because many women do not receive such information and support from the health providers. Provision of appropriate counselling and support as well as contraceptives to women living with HIV to meet their family planning needs is a cost-effective intervention to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV.
Preventing unintended pregnancies among women living with HIV is one of the four comprehensive approaches for confronting unwanted pregnancy among People Living With HIV/AIDS (PLWHA), an approach that was adopted by the World Health Organization (WHO) to promote and prevent the transmission of HIV from mothers to their babies. Women of reproductive age account for about half of people living with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) globally. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver ( ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made.
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