Abstract
One of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) is to ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages. Therefore, maintenance of the application of maternal and reproductive health practices to Women of Reproductive Age (WRA) is crucial throughout women’s lifetime. To find out whether this was happening, the study on which this paper is based examined the socio-demographic characteristics of women who had received maternal and reproductive health services in public health facilities and the extent of application of the maternal and reproductive health practices. A clinic-based descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted on women attending reproductive and child health clinics. Data were collected in 2023 from 121 respondents, mainly using a questionnaire that included a 54-point index summated scale to determine the extent of application of various maternal and reproductive health practices during and after donor funding. The points scored on the scale were expressed as per cents and compared using a paired samples t-test. The results showed an increase in the application of maternal and reproductive health practices after donor funding (49.1% during donor funding and 52.7% after donor funding), but the extents did not differ significantly (p = 0.308; effect size, r = 0.093). Among other things, the results were influenced by the women’s socio-demographic characteristics. The increase shows that the application of the practices is likely to increase. Based on the findings and conclusion, it is recommended that the Government of Tanzania and other relevant stakeholders at all levels should take necessary measures to intervene with respect to various socio-demographic characteristics including age, gender, and marital roles, so that they cannot compromise the application of maternal and reproductive health practices in the research area
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