For those women who aren't successful at that, we try to encourage them to use female methods of contraception: female condoms, spermicides, diaphragms.
While male contraception has been studied before, no method met the stringent safety and effectiveness criteria that female methods do.
Pharmaceutical companies have not yet embraced any method, waiting for something as effective as female methods and risk-free enough to give to healthy men.
However, we find significantly higher reports of withdrawal, combining male and female methods, and multiple method use among men who received the separate-question format.
We examine whether receiving separate questions, as opposed to one combined question, is related to higher reports of using any contraceptive method, specific methods, female methods in addition to male methods, and the number of methods reported.
Among ever-users, 45.7% had used couple methods and 73.2% had used female methods.
Ever-used female methods was significantly associated with 125% higher odds of having an induced abortion, and also 241% higher odds of having repeated abortions.
There were no significant differences in prevalence of self-injury between males and females in this study, which supports recent epidemiological research [ 29] and refutes older studies that may have limited questions to female methods such as cutting.
There was however a more preference for female methods in the community and this emerged as a well-entrenched theme in both FGDs with males and females community members as well as IDIs with health care providers.
The probability of having abortions significantly differed by woman's age at interview, place of residence, type of occupation, wealth, and number of living children; and also in regard to ever-used couple methods and ever-used female methods.
