Women’s perceptions of long-acting reversible contraceptives at a primary health care clinic in Cape Town, South Africa
Abstract
Increasing numbers of unintended pregnancies are occurring due to contraceptive failure.
Unsafe abortion remains one of the top five avoidable patient-related causes of maternal death
in South Africa. There are much higher reported failure rates for short-acting methods of
contraceptives than long-acting methods of contraceptives; the uptake of long-acting methods
of contraception though remains low.