TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2015//
TI  - An evaluation of the current state of sexual and reproductive health and rights of women in Ghana
JO  - Journal of psychosomatic obstetrics and gynaecology
A1  - Adjei, Bismark
A1  - Wolterbeek, Ron
A1  - Peters, Alexander A. W.
SP  - 155
EP  - 160
VL  - 36
IS  - 4
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 0167-482X
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/0167482X.2015.1069814
ID  - ref1
ER  -