The DHS Program

AVERT (Brighton, United Kingdom)

"...A study in Ghana has found that unmarried men exposed to family planning messages in the media are 50% more likely to use condoms than their peers. The study looked at data from Ghana’s 2014 Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) relating to 970 sexually active, never-married men (ages 15–64)..."

Marty Logan
NEPALI TIMES (Kathmandu, Nepal)

This article includes a graphic illustrating four DHS nutrition indicators in Nepal between 1996 and 2016. The indicators are titled "Trends in nutritional status of children below 5 years (in %)" and include stunting, wasting, underweight, and anemia.

Appolonia Adeyemi
NEW TELEGRAPH (Nigeria)

"...According to data from the Nigeria Demographic and Health Survey (NDHS) 2018, nearly four in 10 births (39 per cent) are delivered in a health facility, primarily in public sector facilities. Still, 59 per cent of births are delivered at home. What does this mean for the recent global call to end malaria in pregnancy with intermittent preventive treatment (IPTp)? Nigeria still has a long way to go if the majority of births are not taken by skilled providers. 'Overall, 43 per cent of births are assisted by a skilled provider,' the NDHS further shows. If this is the situation, there is no guarantee that clients involved in the 59 per cent deliveries at home, are exposed to IPTp treatment and other programmes aimed to ensure malaria-free pregnancies..."

Tonny Onyulo
UCA NEWS (Uganda)

"...The 2016 Uganda Demographic and Health Survey -- Uganda's most recent-- reported 58.4% of married women had experienced physical, emotional or sexual violence from a partner, and 39.6% had experienced it within the previous year. The report also showed that among the married women who had experienced physical violence, the most common perpetrator was the current husband (56%), followed by a former partner (29%)..."

Jarra Cham
THE POINT (Bakau, The Gambia)

"...The 2019-2020 Gambia Demographic and Health survey has revealed that 41% of sexually active unmarried women aged 15 to 49 years use a modern family planning method. [...] Among sexually active, unmarried women aged 15-49, 41% use a modern method of family planning. The most popular methods among sexually active, unmarried women are implants (20%), injectables (11%), the male condom, and the pill (5% each). Meanwhile, 1 in 5 married women aged 15-49 use any method of family planning; 17% use a modern method and 2% use a traditional method. The most popular methods, according to the survey, are injectables (8%), implants (6%) and the pill (2%)..."