OBJECTIVE To assess awareness of and interest in intrauterine contraceptive device (IUCD) use among HIV-positive women in Cape Town, South Africa. DESIGN Cross-sectional survey. METHODS HIV-positive women aged 18 through 45 years presenting for care at a primary health care clinic in Cape Town, South Africa participated in this study. Consented participants completed a staff-administered qu...

Long-acting reversible contraceptives (LARCs), which include intrauterine devices (IUDs) and subdermal hormonal implants, are gaining popularity due to their high efficacy in preventing unintended pregnancies. IUD use was more common among U.S. women in the 1970s before concerns over safety led to a decline in use (1); however, since approval of a 5-year contraceptive implant in 1990 and redesi...

OBJECTIVE To test the feasibility of training laywomen as professional patients to teach doctors to fit the contraceptive diaphragm. DESIGN Semi-structured interviews with instructing doctors and questionnaires to DFFP trainees. These documented current teaching practice and the acceptability of professional patients. The Delphi technique was used to establish a curriculum for the professiona...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Risk-taking behavior has been shown to be associated with adolescent pregnancy or childbearing. However, the specific risk-taking behavioral factors and the extent to which they are associated with adolescent childbearing is less clear. The purpose of this study was to determine the risk-taking behavioral factors associated with adolescent childbearing. METHODS In this ...

An estimated 43 million women of reproductive age experienced the effects of conflict in 2012. Already vulnerable from the insecurity of the emergency, women must also face the continuing risk of unwanted pregnancy but often are unable to obtain family planning services. The ongoing Supporting Access to Family Planning and Post-Abortion Care (SAFPAC) initiative, led by CARE, has provided contra...

Introduction The use of contraception among currently married women in India has increased from 41 percent in 1992-93 to 56 percent in 2005-06, while the use of spacing method increased slowly; from 10 percent to 18 percent in the same period (IIPS and Macro International, 1995, 2000, and 2007). On the contrary about 27 percent of users of all methods in the country discontinued use within 12 m...

This is a case report of an Implanon contraceptive device that was impalpable after insertion and a discussion of the management of the impalpable Implanon.

T HE PAST 15 or 20 years have seen the transmutation of genetics into biochemistry and the emergence of a new science of molecular biology. This discipline has greatly illuminated some of the most fundamental issues of human nature. It inevitably raises questions for that time when we modify the genotypes of human beings by principles already commonplace in the experimental genetics of microorg...

The intrauterine contraceptive devices (IUD) are considered important in reducing unintended pregnancy rates [1]. IUDs are useful immediately following induced first-trimester abortion, resulting in significantly fewer repeat abortions [2]. In addition, copper IUDs are more effective than emergency contraceptive pills, providing long-term contraception, if well tolerated [3]. They are also the ...