Sumnary The Puerto Rico oral contraceptive study, hegun in 1961, was thefirst attempt to evahate the longterm satfety of oral co/itraceptilves (OCs'). II addition, it was the on/v large-scale sttdal' employin,' rando//isatioi of'healthv subjects into OC and non-OC groups. tI/ma/ncial support ended in 1976. In 1979, the International Flerti/it' Research Proqra/nt (IFRP) ul/ndertook a.easibilityv...

abstract ba ckground: quality of services, making communications with target groups, and educating them are among the most important success factors in implementation of family planning programs. provision of public access to contraception and related methods, counseling services, and paying attention to social specification and cultures are important in promotion of service quality. with regar...

The problem of rising population, caused by high fertility rates, low death rates and aggravated by low contraceptive practice has taken a frightening dimension in most developing nations, including Nigeria, hence different authors have voiced their concerns and advocated ways out of the dilemma as a means of having a better society by the practice of contraception. This study investigates the ...

CONTEXT Usage rates of female condoms are low throughout Sub-Saharan Africa. Programs have traditionally presented female condoms as a means of women's empowerment. However, prevailing gender norms in Sub-Saharan Africa assign sexual decision making to men, suggesting that male acceptance is imperative for increased use. METHODS In 2011, data on perceptions of and experiences with female cond...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was detection of Female Sexual Function Index (FSFI) scores of married women living in North Eastern Black Sea region of Turkey and comparison with demographic data. MATERIALS AND METHODS A cross-sectional, descriptive study conducted at a University Hospital, gynecology and obstetrics outpatient clinic. Married women between 18-50 years of age, without any com...

background: this study aimed to define and compare the efficiency and complication between hd and levonorgestrel tablets as an emergency contraceptive method. methods: in this double blind clinical trial, the subjects included 68 women aged 15-45 years with regular menstruation cycles referred to isfahan health centers within the first 72 hours after their unprotected coitus between may to sep ...

patients and methods the current quasi-experimental study was conducted on 96 eligible females, who were allocated either to the case or the control group and were selected from homes in the border of zahedan city (southeast of iran) during 2010. convenience sampling by door-to-door visits was used for finding eligible cases. a ttm-based self-administrated family planning questionnaire was used...

objective: despite development of new contraceptive methods, sterilization remained the most widely used method. our objective was to determine the factors contributing to decision making for tubal ligation in females. materials and methods: a cross sectional study was conducted in jinnah post graduate medical centre (jpmc) between march - november 2008. about 505 females using contraceptive me...

A questionnaire was given to 56 sexually active girls 12-16 years old, in a juvenile assessment centre or attending a genitourinary medicine clinic. Sexual behaviour, drug use, contraceptive practice and knowledge and attitudes about AIDS were evaluated. The girls were similar in demographic characteristics from both centres and were regarded as one group. Sexual experience ranged from 1 partne...

background: our study compares the efficacy of the combined contraceptive vaginal ring to oral contraceptive pills (ocps) for hypothalamic-pituitary-ovarian (hpo) axis suppression in egg donor in vitro fertilization (ivf) cycles. methods: our retrospective cohort study includes patients from the center for assisted reproduction (care) in bedford, texas undergoing ivf cycles as egg donors from j...