1.Organization, W. H. and W. H. O. M.o.S. A. Unit, Global status report on alcohol and health, 20142014: World Health Organization.
2.Organization, W. H., WHO| Family planning/contraception: fact sheet No 351. 2015. Available from:.[Last accessed on 2016 Dec 26]. Back to cited text, (1).
3.Bakamjian, L., Programming strategies for postpartum family planning. 2013.
4.Gaffield, M. E., S. Egan, and M. Temmerman, It’s about time: WHO and partners release programming strategies for postpartum family planning. Global Health: Science and Practice, 2014. 2(1): p. 4–9.
5.Initiative, A. F. P., US Agency for International Development, Family planning needs during the extended postpartum period in Uttar Pradesh, India, 2008, 2010.
6.CSACE, I., Ethiopia Demographic and Health Survey 2016. Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and Rockville, Maryland, USA: CSA and ICF, 2016.
7.Howie, P., et al., Fertility after childbirth: post‐partum ovulation and menstruation in bottle and breast feeding mothers. Clinical endocrinology, 1982. 17(4): p. 323–332.
8.Singh, M., et al., Awareness and acceptance of contraception in post-partum women in a tertiary care hospital of Delhi. International Journal of Reproduction, Contraception, Obstetrics and Gynecology, 2017. 4(3): p. 690–695.
9.Assefa, T., et al., Physician distribution and attrition in the public health sector of Ethiopia. Risk management and healthcare policy, 2016. 9: p. 285.
10.Tigabu, S., et al., Access to and utilization of quality family planning services: challenges and opportunities in meeting FP2020 targets. IJHSR, 2016. 6(1): p. 424e33.
11.Hamdalla, T., A. Arega, and T. Markos, Prevalence and associated factors of modern contraceptive utilization among married women in reproductive age group in Misha Woreda Hadiya Zone, South Ethiopia. J Women’s Heal Care, 2017. 6: p. 3.
12.Edhs, M., Ethiopia Mini Demographic and Health Survey. Ethiopia: Central Statistical Agency Addis Ababa, 2014.
13.Berta, M., et al., Utilization and associated factors of modern contraceptives during extended postpartum period among women who gave birth in the last 12 months in Gondar Town, northwest Ethiopia. Ethiopian Journal of Health Sciences, 2018. 28(2): p. 207–216.
14.Abraha, T. H., A. S. Teferra, and A. A. Gelagay, Postpartum modern contraceptive use and associated factors in Northern Ethiopia. Epidemiology and Health, 2017.
15.Nigussie, A., D. Girma, and G. Tura, Postpartum family planning utilization and associated factors among women who gave birth in the past 12 months, Kebribeyah Town, Somali Region, Eastern Ethiopia. J Women’s Health Care, 2016. 5: p. 340.
16.Achwoka, D., et al., Uptake and correlates of contraception among postpartum women in Kenya: results from a national cross-sectional survey. Contraception, 2018. 97(3): p. 227–235.
17.Mengesha, Z. B., A. G. Worku, and S. A. Feleke, Contraceptive adoption in the extended postpartum period is low in Northwest Ethiopia. BMC pregnancy and childbirth, 2015. 15(1): p. 160.
18.Demie, T., et al., Postpartum Family Planning Utilization among Postpartum Women in Public Health Institutions of Debre Berhan Town, Ethiopia. J Women’s Health Care, 2018. 7(426): p. 2167–0420.1000426.
19.Teka, T. T., et al., Role of antenatal and postnatal care in contraceptive use during postpartum period in western Ethiopia: a cross sectional study. BMC research notes, 2018. 11(1): p. 581.
20.Tessema, G. A., et al., Association between skilled maternal healthcare and postpartum contraceptive use in Ethiopia. BMC pregnancy and childbirth, 2018. 18(1): p. 172.
21.Rutaremwa, G., et al., Predictors of modern contraceptive use during the postpartum period among women in Uganda: a population-based cross sectional study. BMC Public Health, 2015. 15(1): p. 262.
22.Gebremedhin, A. Y., et al., Family planning use and its associated factors among women in the extended postpartum period in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Contraception and reproductive medicine, 2018. 3(1): p. 1.
23.Gebremariam, A. and H. Gebremariam, Contraceptive use among lactating women in Ganta-Afeshum District, Eastern Tigray. International Breastfeeding Journal, 2016. 11(4).
24.Jalang’o, R., et al., Determinants of contraceptive use among postpartum women in a county hospital in rural KENYA. BMC Public Health, 2017. 17(1): p. 604.
25.Bwazi, C., et al., Utilization of postpartum family planning services between six and twelve months of delivery at Ntchisi District Hospital, Malawi. Health, 2014. 6(14): p. 1724.
26.Dona, A., et al., Timely initiation of postpartum contraceptive utilization and associated factors among women of child bearing age in Aroressa District, Southern Ethiopia: a community based cross-sectional study. BMC Public Health, 2018. 18(1): p. 1100.
27.Revanna, R. and N. Agadi, Determinants of Post-partum contraception practices in urban slums of central Karnataka, India. Indian Journal of Community Health, 2016. 28(3): p. 280–285.
28.Abraha, T. H., et al., Predictors of postpartum contraceptive use in rural Tigray region, northern Ethiopia: a multilevel analysis. BMC Public Health, 2018. 18(1): p. 1017.