Abstract:
Husband involvement is an important intervention for improving maternal health,
and is considered as a crucial step in scaling up women’s use of prenatal care. The idea of men’s
involvement in reproductive health was first emerged at Cairo’s conference in 1994.
Nevertheless, to implement this idea into practice several challenges have been faced. Even
today, emphasis has not been given to the concept of men involvement in maternal health in
most developing countries. Until recently, there is limited evidence of husbands’ involvement
and its contribution for women’s use of skilled maternity care in Ethiopia, a country with low
coverage of maternal health care but with high maternal and neonatal mortality. Therefore, there
is a need to generate contextual evidence for policy formulation, designing and implementing
programs that remove barriers and to promote husbands’ involvement in maternal health care.