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Factors impacting knowledge and use of long acting and permanent contraceptive methods by postpartum HIV positive and negative women in Cape Town, South Africa: a cross-sectional study Full Text
BMC Public Health, 04/03/2012
Crede S et al. – These study results confirm that strategies focusing on increasing users' knowledge about long acting and permanent methods (LAPMs) are needed to encourage uptake of these methods and to meet women's needs for an expanded range of contraceptives which will aid in preventing unintended pregnancies. Given that HIV positive women were found to be more favourable to future use of the IUD it is possible that there may be more uptake of the IUD amongst these women.