BACKGROUND Contraception is often necessary in order to plan for children and without it there is a risk of unplanned pregnancies. In the Democratic Republic of Congo, this often results in abortions by untrained persons with resultant morbidity and mortality. AIM To investigate the factors that influence contraceptive use amongst women of childbearing age in the Vanga health zone. METHODS ...

INTRODUCTION Contraception means procedures employed to interfere at one stage or the other with the normal sequence of events in the process of reproduction leading to a failure in conception. It means voluntary techniques adopted to achieve birth control. Its use remains sensitive worldwide. Within the same society, contraception varies amongst people of different socio-cultural, educational,...

Introduction: Male hormonal contraception known as safe, effective, and reversiblecontraception. World Health Organization (WHO) multicentre study has been conducted aclinical administrating of testosterone regimens progestin to male with a remarkableresult. Azoospermia or severe oligozoospermia occurred in men injection TestosteroneEnanthate (TE) Depot Medroxyprogesterone Acetate (DMPA) well T...

The population explosion and unintended pregnancies resulting in elective abortions continue to be the major public health issues in spite of availability of current methods of contraception. There is an urgent need for a better method of contraception that is accepted, effective, and available. Various targets are being investigated that can be used for contraception. The gene knockout technol...

Qualitative interviews with young women attending community colleges were used to address why women who do not desire pregnancy vary in how consistently they use contraception. Based on our analysis of the women’s sexual histories, we argue that five factors are key to promoting or discouraging consistent use of contraception: efficacy (women’s ability to put an intention to contracept into pra...

AIMS To identify men's knowledge and attitude to contraception and to determine whether there are differences in those men who have previous experience of termination of pregnancy (TOP) compared to those without experience. METHOD Cross-sectional survey by written questionnaire of male attenders at a genitourinary medicine (GUM) clinic. RESULTS In total 999 men, aged 15 to 70 years, complet...

BACKGROUND THE REPORTS OF A RISE IN CONTRACEPTIVE PRACTICES HAVE NOT BEEN MATCHED BY A SIMILAR DECREASE IN POPULATION: therefore, there is a need to look into the causes of this discrepancy. The objectives of this study were to determine the prevalence of different methods of contraception used by Egyptian women, to compare different contraception methods used among various socio-demographic gr...

one hundred and eight male (108) cases, which have been using lippes loops (i.u.d.) for contraception, were followed for five (+5) years, and unwanted pregnancies and side effects were analyzed. our over all impression is that because of the frequency of uterine bleeding which they cause, lippes loops are not an ideal contraceptive method for iranian women.