Background: With the onset of COVID-19 pandemic, life humankind had changed a lot. change in health-care approach, contraception became non-essential service and faced downfall. Aims Objective: This study objective is to find out changes contraceptive usage tertiary care center. Materials Methods: The retrospective observational study, which was compared between 2019 2020. Data obtained from re...

INTRODUCTION Use of hormonal contraceptives for birth control is commonplace in the Western World. In Europe, there is considerable variety in the frequency of use of hormonal contraceptives and in the age at which these contraceptives are initiated. The purpose of the present study was to describe the use of hormonal contraceptives among the Danish adolescent female population, focusing on age...

BACKGROUND Preventing unwanted pregnancies in Women Living with HIV (WLHIV) is a recognised HIV-prevention strategy. This study explores the fertility intentions and contraceptive practices of WLHIV using services in Kenya. METHODS Two hundred forty women self-identifying as WLHIV who attended reproductive health services in Kenya were interviewed with a structured questionnaire in 2011; 48 w...

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Teen pregnancy is often considered an adverse health outcome that accentuates gender inequities, diminishes opportunities, and jeopardizes the safety of adolescent young adult birthing people. Long-Acting Reversible Contraceptives (LARC) have been hailed as a panacea for teen pregnancy. However, adolescents emerging adults intersect with multiple assaults on their well-being due to inequity rac...