TABLE 1.
2015 Contraception visits in female adolescents aged ≤ 18 years at Desmond Tutu HIV Foundation Youth Centre versus public clinic.
| Contraception method | DTHF-YC n = 1577‡ |
PC n = 2036‡ |
Risk ratio | p | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frequency (n) | Percentage (%) | Frequency (n) | Percentage (%) | (95% CI) | ||
| Total contraception visits | 1001 | 100.0 | 345 | 100.0 | 3.74 (3.37–4.15) | < 0.001 |
| Oral contraceptive pills | 22 | 2.2§ | 4 | 1.2 | 1.90 (0.66–5.46) | 0.23 |
| Norethisterone enanthate | 764 | 76.3 | 285 | 82.6 | 0.92 (0.87–0.98) | 0.015 |
| Medroxyprogesterone acetate | 79 | 7.9 | 51 | 14.7 | 0.34 (0.24–0.47) | < 0.001 |
| Implant | 11 | 1.1 | 5 | 1.4 | 0.76 (0.27–2.17) | 0.61 |
| Intra-uterine copper device | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | - |
| Emergency contraception | 2 | 2.0 | 0 | 0 | - | - |
| Unknown type† | 123 | 12.3 | 0 | 0 | - | - |
DTHF-YC, Desmond Tutu HIV Foundation Youth Centre; PC, public clinic, CI, confidence interval.
†
, Came for contraception, undocumented type administered;
‡
, n = 10- to 19-year-old females.
§
, % = per cent of contraception visits.