CULTURAL CONDITIONS DURING IKSHVAKUS OF VIJAYAPURI

Male involvement in family planning is one of the strategies that were embraced in the International Conference on Population and Development meeting held in Cairo 1994 to help reduce the increasing population in Africa and elsewhere in the world. This study will investigate the common methods of family planning used currently; knowledge practice and attitude of men toward the use of the family planning methods, and the factors that hinder or encourage men to get involved family planning and hence determine family size.The main aim of this study is to determine the factors affecting male involvement in family planning in Sichilayi sub location. There is a relationship between knowledge level of family planning and uptake by men in Sichirai sub-location. This study adopted the cross sectional research design. Snowball non-probability sampling technique was used in this study. Few respondents from Sichirayi sub-location were identified in Kakamega town, and then they were requested to provide information that will help the data collectors identify more respondents within the town.