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Cohort Profile: The Performance Monitoring for Action (PMA) panel surveys

Authors: Aisha Siewe , Meagan E Byrne , Dana Sarnak , Saifuddin Ahmed , Scott Radloff , Win Brown , Linnea A Zimmerman , Amy Tsui , Yoonjoung Choi , Elizabeth Gummerson , Caroline Moreau , Carolina Cardona , Shannon Wood , Celia Karp , Suzanne O Bell , Georges Guiella , Rosine Mosso , Fassassi Raïmi , Pierre Akilimali , Anoop Khanna , Peter Gichangi , Mary Thiongo , Souleymane Alzouma , Sani Oumarou , Elizabeth Omoluabi , Funmilola M OlaOlorun , Musa Sani Zakirai , Frederick Makumbi , Simon Peter Sebina Kibira , Philip Anglewicz

Publication Year: 2025

Link to File: https://academic.oup.com/ije/article/54/1/dyae180/7942545

  • The Performance Monitoring for Action (PMA) platform is an open cohort with embedded cross-sectional surveys that was established to capture contraceptive use dynamics behaviours and contraception supply-demand factors.

  • PMA data are nationally representative in Kenya, Niger, Uganda, Burkina Faso and Côte d’Ivoire; and representative of subnational geographies in the Democratic Republic of Congo (Kongo Central and Kinshasa provinces), Nigeria (Kano and Lagos states) and India (Rajasthan state).

  • PMA cohorts were enrolled in late 2019 (Phase 1), with two annual follow-up surveys conducted in each site (Phases 2 and 3). Phase 4 data are forthcoming in Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Niger, Nigeria, Uganda and Kinshasa.

  • Across the eight countries in PMA, a total of 40 986 women aged 15–49 years participated in Phase 1, 49 184 women participated in Phase 2 and 53 865 women in Phase 3.

  • PMA female surveys measure key family planning and reproductive health indicators, along with gender- and other health-related measures. The Service Delivery Point surveys capture information on service quality and contraceptive availability and stock.

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