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SUMMARY
This present study assessed the prevalence of unintended pregnancies and contraception among the 422 young pregnant women (10-24) years attending antenatal care in health centres in Lelouma health district in Guinea. The study reported high knowledge of contraceptive but low practice. The prevalence of current contraceptive use was low (27.5%) compared to the SDGs target. It was observed that several factors (both socio-demographics and otherwise) were responsible for the ever and/or current use of contraceptive among the study participants. These factors include age, marital status, place of residence, religion, woman’s education and occupation, partner’s education and occupation, type of marriage, relationship with partner, parity, distance to health facility, age at first pregnancy and order of pregnancy. These factors were statistically significantly associated with use of contraceptive among the study participants. It was also observed that the prevalence of unintended pregnancy was high (58.3%) among the study group.
