Provision of injectable contraceptives in Ethiopia through community-based reproductive health agents
Ndola Prata, Amanuel Gessessew, Alice Cartwright & Ashley Fraser
Volume 89, Number 8, August 2011, 556-564
Table 2. Proportion of women who did and did not receive a second or third injection of depot medroxyprogesterone acetate, by provider type, Ethiopia, 2008–2009
| Continuation | 2nd injection |
3rd injection |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HEW clients |
CBRHA clients |
P | HEW clients |
CBRHA clients |
P | ||
| (n = 440) | (n = 622) | (n = 440) | (n = 622) | ||||
| Received injection (%) | 81.6 | 83.7 | < 0.01 | 62.3 | 78.8 | < 0.01 | |
| Discontinued injections (%) | 8.9 | 0.8 | < 0.01 | 3.6 | 1.5 | 0.03 | |
CBRHA, community-based reproductive health agent; HEW, health extension worker.
Proportions do not add up to 100 due to loss to follow up.