Over the past four decades, the organized international family planning effort has made
a great progress in expanding the availability and use of voluntary reproductive Health
and family planning services. Access to modern contraception has become recognized by
the international community as a basic human right; however, obstacles and challenges
remain. To assess Knowledge, attitude and practice for long acting and permanent
contraceptive methods utilization among women of age group 18-49 years in Ayder
referral hospital, Tigray region, Ethiopia. An institutional based across sectional
descriptive study was conducted among 200 women’s come to Ayder referral hospital for
antenatal care , family planning , post natal, immunization and other services . The data
was collected using face to face structured questionnaire based interview. Surprisingly
enough, 198(99%) of the total surveyed population knew about long acting family
planning methods. And were aware that long acting contraceptives are used to control
births and space children while the remaining2(1%) didn’t know about long acting
family planning and were not aware that long acting contraceptives are used to control
births and space children.52(26%) of the population are currently using long acting
family planning method. However; there were no users for female or male sterilization.
This finding revealed that the utilization of long acting family planning method was high
in Ayder referral hospital and a significant amount of the participants had low
knowledge on long acting family planning method particularly vasectomy tubal ligation.