Needs and preference of males regarding male family planning services at Kawale
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2010-07-15
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Kamuzu University of Health Sciences
Abstract
Family planning services were introduced in Malawi in 1960, but concentration was placed on women. Though 50 years of use of family planning, it has been less effective in controlling our population. For example, the Malawi government and the Word Bank (1997) stated that population was 9.5 million and they estimated that it might double within 20 years. According to Malawi Government index mundi (2010), the annual growth rate in 2001 was 2.01 percent and 2.37 in 2007, while 2.746 in 2009. And it has been estimated to rise in 2010. The rising growth rate reflects a current fertility rate of 5.59 which is one of the highest in Africa (Malawi Government index mundi, 2010). Malalwi government and the World Bank (1997), states that low demand to family planning services has rendered the services ineffective, and hence the need to increase demand in order to bring effectiveness. Increasing demand implies increasing the number of clients seeking the services. This increase in demand can be achieved by involving men to utilize the family planning methods in addition to the female clients. Statistics has shown that males' utilization of family planning is at 13 percent despite knowledge level of 98.5 percent, (Demographic Health Survey). The statistics herein has convinced the researcher to conduct a research study on needs and preferences of males regarding male family planning services. It has shown that the males know of family planning and approves of it however their utilization of the method remains low (13 percent) hence the study will explore ways which males prefer and need regarding male family planning services. The study will be descriptive qualitative. It will unsurfaced how males want male family planning services to be provided so that they are motivated to utilize them effectively. A sample of 15 male individuals with knowledge on male family planning services will be recruited from Kawale. Data will be collected using a questionnaire and will be analysed manually. The findings of the study will be address problems of low male utilization of male family planning services, specifically the methods.