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Table 5.17.2 Exposure to family planning messages: Men 15-49Percentage men age 15-49 who heard or saw a family planning message on various media andpercentage who discussed the practice of family planning with a health worker or professionalduring the past six months, according to background characteristics, Swaziland 2006-07BackgroundNewspaper/characteristic Radio Television magazineNone ofthese threemediasourcesPercent whodiscussed thepractice of FPwith a healthprofessionalNumber ofmenAge15-19 45.2 17.3 23.9 45.8 2.3 1,32320-24 56.8 24.9 35.3 32.2 4.7 88625-29 68.4 30.4 46.5 23.8 11.1 62430-34 67.9 34.7 41.1 25.6 12.3 43135-39 65.8 28.0 39.6 24.6 13.9 36740-44 70.8 31.9 38.7 23.4 14.8 26945-49 72.3 31.3 37.5 24.6 10.0 256ResidenceUrban 62.0 38.3 47.6 25.6 11.3 1,181Rural 57.4 20.3 29.6 35.8 6.0 2,975RegionHhohho 58.5 26.9 37.6 32.2 7.8 1,099Manzini 62.5 31.9 42.6 27.0 7.3 1,349Shiselweni 54.3 17.0 24.4 39.7 6.2 843Lubombo 57.1 21.7 28.8 36.2 8.8 865EducationNo education 51.7 9.8 6.0 46.5 6.8 316Lower primary 52.3 9.4 8.3 45.4 4.1 470Higher primary 51.0 14.0 22.3 42.7 5.1 980Secondary 60.1 25.0 37.3 29.6 6.6 1,191High School 68.6 40.8 55.7 19.9 9.5 852Tertiary 65.9 57.6 71.2 18.7 17.4 347Wealth quintileLowest 49.6 4.5 14.0 46.2 4.8 601Second 54.0 11.2 26.0 40.3 3.2 665Middle 59.9 15.9 29.8 33.9 5.4 856Fourth 61.7 29.3 36.1 29.9 8.9 953Highest 62.9 49.9 54.2 22.8 12.1 1,081Total 15-49 58.7 25.4 34.7 32.9 7.5 4,1565.16 CONTACT OF NONUSERS WITH FAMILY PLANNING PROVIDERSGiven the importance of family planning services to the improvement of mothers’ and children’shealth, it is important to optimize every opportunity to meet a woman’s family planning needs. In reality,however, health care providers often miss these opportunities. Information on missed opportunities wasgathered by asking women if they had visited a health facility in the 12 months preceding the survey.Those who visited a health facility were asked whether anyone at the facility had discussed familyplanning with them during any of their visits. Women were also asked whether they had been visited by aRHM/CBD who talked with them about family planning in the 12 months preceding the survey.The results of these questions for nonusers of contraception at the time of the survey arepresented in Table 5.18. Only 7 percent of nonusers reported being visited by fieldworkers who discussedfamily planning issues. While 41 percent of nonusers visited a health facility during the 12 monthspreceding the survey, the majority of these women (30 percent) did not discuss family planning with anyhealth care provider. In total, 84 percent of the women discussed family planning with neither aRHM/CBD nor a health professional at a health facility.78 | Famity Planning