PLOS Global Public Health
Knowledge and utilization of family planning and safe abortion services among married women of reproductive age in the Raute community of Nepal: A census-based cross-sectional study
Raute the last nomadic hunter-gatherer marginalized indigenous group face disproportionate and persistent barriers to reproductive health services, including family planning and safe abortion. The lack of the pre-existing population-level quantitative reproductive health data limits the ability of health authority to design cultural-sensitive health services. This census-based cross-sectional study enrolled all 192 eligible married women of reproductive age in the Raute community of Parshuram Municipality, Dadeldhu …