FACTORS RESPONSIBLE FOR LOW CONTRACEPTIVE USE AMONG WOMEN IN WEST NILE, UGANDA

The research focused on establishing the causes of low contraceptive use in the West Nile. Uganda. The study aimed at providing a clear basis for policy measures so as to reduce or curb down the high and rapidly growing population growth rate levels. The study used secondary data from the 2006 Uganda Demographic Health Surveys (UDHS). In this study, the sample size of 8369 women aged 15-49years from the districts, Adjumani, Arua, Koboko, Nyadri, Nebbi, and Yumbe was used. The researcher used both univariate and bivariate analysis. In bivariate analysis Correlations and Chi square test was also used to measure the degree of association between the dependant variable and the independent variables.
Results indicate a significant relationship was established between mother’s age at first birth, birth interval and infants dead for those which were demographic in nature, as well as education level, religion, marital status and wealth index for socio-economic variables of which all factors were statistically significant with infant mortality. The researcher recommended increasing the number of health facilities so as to supplement the few existing government and private facilities. This would increase the level of accessibility to contraceptives and family planning facilities especially to the rural majority.Our findings also sug