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Overview

In Côte d'Ivoire the Population Council has worked to improve reproductive health and primary health care services, analyzed data on child mortality, and investigated preferences regarding reproductive health product formulation.

Currently Côte d'Ivoire is one of 11 countries participating in the African Forum on Emergency Contraception, or ECafrique, a network that seeks to increase the availability of high-quality emergency contraception (EC) services in Africa.

Highlights of past and present work

  • Supports research, advocacy, and service-delivery interventions at the country level as a member of ECafrique, a bilingual, international network of health care and business professionals from more than 200 institutions that seeks to increase the availability of high-quality emergency contraception (EC) services in Africa.
  • Provided technical assistance to the Ministry of Health in implementing a four-year project funded by UNFPA to establish integrated and effective reproductive health, family planning, STI, HIV/AIDS, and primary health care services at the community level.

Banner photo: © Beryl Goldberg

Projects

ECafrique (more)
The African Forum on Emergency Contraception, or ECafrique, is a bilingual, international network of health care and business professionals that seeks to increase the availability of high-quality emergency contraception (EC) services in Africa.
(1/2002 - ongoing)
Access to contraceptive methods

Resources

Marriage and childbirth as factors in school exit: An analysis of DHS data from sub-Saharan Africa (PDF
Lloyd,Cynthia B.; Mensch,Barbara S.
Policy Research Division Working Paper (no. 219)
Publication date: 2006


New findings from intervention research: Youth reproductive health and HIV prevention (PDF
Publication date: 2004


Evaluation of United Nations-supported pilot projects for the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV: Overview of findings (PDF
Rutenberg,Naomi; Baek,Carolyn; Kalibala,Sam; Rosen,James
HIV/AIDS Working Paper
Publication date: 2003


Programme recommendations for the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV: A practical guide for managers (PDF
Rutenberg,Naomi; Kalibala,Sam; Baek,Carolyn; Rosen,James
HIV/AIDS Working Paper
Publication date: 2003


Selected DHS data on 10-14-year-olds (HTML
Annexes by country to Facts about Adolescents from the Demographic and Health Survey: Statistical Tables for Program Planning
Publication date: 2003


Selected DHS data on 10-14-year-olds: Côte d'Ivoire (PDF) (HTML
Annex to "Facts about adolescents from the Demographic and Health Survey: Statistical tables for program planning"
Publication date: 2003


Données sur les adolescents tirées de l'Enquête Démographique et de Santé-Tableaux Statistiques aux fins de la préparation de programmes: Côte d'Ivoire 1994 (PDF) (HTML
Publication date: 2001


Facts about adolescents from the Demographic and Health Survey: Statistical tables for program planning (HTML
Series of DHS data tables by country
Publication date: 2001


Facts about adolescents from the Demographic and Health Survey--Statistical tables for program planning: Côte d'Ivoire 1994 (PDF) (HTML
Publication date: 2001


A study of women's preferences regarding the formulation of over-the-counter vaginal spermicides (PDF
Coggins,Christiana; Elias,Christopher J.; Atisook,Ronachai; Bassett,Mary T.; Ettiegne-Traore,Virginie; Ghys,Peter D.; Jenkins-Woelk,Laura; Thongkrajai,Earmporn; VanDevanter,Nancy L.
Robert H. Ebert Program on Critical Issues in Reproductive Health Publication Series
Publication date: 1998


Ethnicity and child mortality in sub-Saharan Africa (PDF
Brockerhoff,Martin; Hewett,Paul C.
Policy Research Division Working Paper (no. 107)
Publication date: 1998


The tradeoff between the number of children and their schooling: Evidence from Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana 
Montgomery,Mark R.; Kouame,Aka; Oliver,Raylynn
Policy Research Division Working Paper (no. 82)
Publication date: 1995


Côte d'Ivoire Fast Facts

Population (millions)20.6
Total fertility rate4.9
Infant deaths per 1,000 live births73
Maternal deaths per 100,000 live births470
Girls aged 20-24 married by age 18 (%)33.2
HIV/AIDS prevalence (%)3.4
Living below US $2 per day (%)46

Country statistics from Demographic and Health Surveys, 1987–2011; UNAIDS and UNICEF websites (accessed 10/22/2012); "World Population Data Sheet" (Population Reference Bureau, 2012)
 

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