No significant association was observed with changes in the utilisation of other types of services, except for ANC-1 and ANC-4 where there was a marginally significant decline of 0.8% for every 10 percentage points increase in the stringency index.
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Health service utilisation during the COVID-19 pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa in 2020: a multicountry empirical assessment with a focus on maternal, newborn and child health services.
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The results mostly showed an adverse trend in the utilisation of health services but with considerable variability between countries, type of services and time periods during 2020. 8–12 Since 2018, the Countdown to for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health, an international collaboration of academics and global agencies, and the Afric