@article{ref1,
title="An evaluation of the current state of sexual and reproductive health and rights of women in Ghana",
journal="Journal of psychosomatic obstetrics and gynaecology",
year="2015",
author="Adjei, Bismark and Wolterbeek, Ron and Peters, Alexander A. W.",
volume="36",
number="4",
pages="155-160",
abstract="OBJECTIVE: To provide a current account of women's sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) in Ghana (West Africa), a priority area in achieving the World Health Organization's Millennium Development Goals. <br><br>METHOD: The study was observational. Three-hundred ninety Ghanaian women attending cervical cancer screening were surveyed about their SRHR. The data were analyzed with chi-squared test (p ≤ 0.05, two-sided). <br><br>RESULTS: 22.1% had a life-time history of non-consensual sexual experience and 55.4% a previous history of abortion, mostly using services of a registered clinic (68.5%). Experience of sexual violence increased life-time risk of abortion (p = 0.018). The overall use of contraceptives was high (>60%); however, condom use during sexual intercourse with a new partner was low (23%), even among the highly educated women (32.7%) and women who stated to have received information on the risks and benefits of condom use (26.0%). Although condom use among the highly educated women was low, it was still 2 times higher than among the lower educated women, 15.7% (p < 0.001). There was also less condom use among the women with multiple sexual partners compared to single-partnered women (p = 0.001). <br><br>CONCLUSION: More than a decade after the inception of the Millennium Development Goals, there is still work to be done in Ghana, especially on education and sexual violence.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0167-482X",
doi="10.3109/0167482X.2015.1069814",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/0167482X.2015.1069814"
}