A Closer Examination of the HIV/Fertility Linkage ... - Measure DHS

Modern contraceptive use is growing steadily in Uganda, but traditional methods are stillcommon (Figure 13 and 14). Modern contraceptive use more than doubled between 1995 and2000/2001, after which it levels off at 15% of women of reproductive age. Two age groups (15-19 and 25-29) see a decline or stalling of modern method use among sexually active womenbetween 2000/2001 and 2006. Further, modern contraceptive use declines for sexually activeurban women between 2000/2001 and 2006 (from 37% to 33%), much like the pattern inZimbabwe. Condom use among sexually active women (Figure 13), after seeing a remarkableincrease between 1988/1989 and 2000/2001 now remains constant for urban women, at 8.6%,and falls to 2.1% for rural women. 2Figure 13: Trends modern contraceptive use among sexually active urban versus ruralwomen, Uganda 1988-2006Urban1988/1989Method other than condomsCondoms19952000/20012006Rural1988/198919952000/200120060 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40Percentage Using Method2 The condom recall in Uganda occurred in 1994, and thus the effect would have been captured in the 1995 DHS.27