Abstract: Background: The high rate of reproductive health risks among women in African region poses a significant challenge to maternal health objectives encapsulated in The United Nations' Sustainable Development Goal (UN-SDG): 3. As result of this, assessment of underlying predictors in conjugal norms and practices, at societal and individual levels, has assumed major research centrepiece in recent times. The study therefore, seeks to explore the linkage effects of concubine practice on reproductive health experience of married women.
Materials and Methods: In this cross-sectional study, 576 women of reproductive age (15-49), were randomly selected, and delineated into two cohorts....
Keywords: Reproductive health, sexually transmitted infection, Concubine, married women and men
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