Decisions and choices about fertility and family planning: Perspectives from husbands and wives in Sudan

This study's findings posit the call for partnerships forged between national health officials at the policy level, public health researchers, community workers, and community leaders to acknowledge the importance of men's involvement in family planning. Conducting further studies and initiating awareness-raising programs focusing on men's contraceptive literacy and, hence, attitudes towards family planning, can reduce their influence in reproductive health decisions and promote their role as supporters for women's contraceptive use. Furthermore, national reproductive health policies must recognize the critical role health providers can play in engaging men. Implementing training initiatives for health providers to improve their roles in counseling men about the health benefits of family planning use can lead to increasing couples' discussions about fertility-related behaviours to better safeguard their reproductive health status.