**6. Conclusions**

The findings of this study sugges<sup>t</sup> that improvement of exposure to contraceptive-use information in health centres, empowerment of women to access quality contraceptive-use services and religious affiliation all play a significant role in explaining and informing their adherents on the importance of using a contraceptive method. These findings also highlighted the districts with lower numbers of women using contraceptive methods and this can help policy makers and other related public health institutions to design specific programmes targeting these districts in order to improve the health status and living conditions of these women.

**Author Contributions:** F.H. acquired data, performed analysis and drafted the manuscript, S.R. revised and edited the manuscript and finally all the authors approved the manuscript.

**Acknowledgments:** The authors acknowledge the National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda (NISR) [Rwanda], the Ministry of Health (MOH) [Rwanda], and ICF International for the data.

**Conflicts of Interest:** The authors declare no conflict of interest.
