Sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) are fundamental to people's health and
survival, to economic development, and to the wellbeing of humanity. Several decades of …

Focus groups are widely used in the field of public health as a quick, low-cost means of
obtaining information from selected groups in the target population for programmatic purposes. …

This review systematically examined the effectiveness of 24 mass media interventions on
changing human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-related knowledge, attitudes and behaviors. …

Access to family planning, quality of care and medical barriers to services are key factors in
the adoption of contraceptive use. Access helps determine whether the individual makes …

Family planning improves health, reduces poverty, and empowers women. Yet, today, more
than 200 million women in the developing world want to avoid pregnancy but are not using a …

As the HIV/AIDS epidemic continues its relentless spread in many parts of the world, DOI
provides a useful framework for analyzing the difficulties in achieving behavior change …

This article compares focus group findings with those of surveys on the same topics in three
studies in order to determine the extent to which the two methodologces yield similar results. …

Objectives To review the strength of the evidence for the effects of three types of mass
media interventions (radio only, radio with supporting media, or radio and television with …

CONTEXT: Method mix—the percentage distribution of contraceptive users in a given
country, by method—is one measure that reflects the availability of a range of contraceptive …

Contraceptive prevalence has been central to family planning research over the past few
decades, but researchers have given surprisingly little consideration to method mix, a proxy for …