In some cases, contraceptive methods are inherently controlled by one partner or the other. For example, women can get a prescription for and take hormonal birth control; men can't (at this time). However, this doesn't mean that men shouldn't participate in making the decision of what contraception to use and share in covering the cost. In fact, communicating about and sharing responsibility fo...

We combine a formal speciication technique with an object-oriented method using a meta-method for formal method integration based on heterogeneous notations 18, 19]. We discuss the integrated method, and then apply it to an example.

A cohort of women aged 14-29 in 1993 was identified from the General Practice Research Database and followed up for a period of 4 years. Patient files were searched for evidence of use of emergency contraception and regular contraception. Of the 95 007 women, 15 105 (16%) had received emergency contraception during the study period (an average of 5% per annum). There was a small year on year in...

We welcome the opportunity to respond to Harrison’s Letter to the Editor regarding our GHSP article “Women's Limited Choice and Availability of Modern Contraception at Retail Outlets and PublicSector Facilities in Luanda, Angola, 2012–2015.” There is little recent market data available for Angola, and this article was an effort to share what we had learned about product availability in retail o...