Introduction: In Ethiopia contraceptive practice is one of the lowest when compared with many other countries. To prevent over growth of population, availability, usability of modern contraceptive method and identifying factors affecting practice of modern contraceptives should be given a priority. Due to this assessing modern contraceptive practice in the community will have a great input to p...

Implanon® consists of a core and a membrane. The core contains 68 mg etonogestrel dispersed in a matrix of ethylenevinylacetate (EVA) co-polymer and the external membrane is made of EVA co-polymer (0.06 mm).2 This differs from the Norplant subdermal contraceptive device in which the levonorgestrel powder is free within the silastic cavity, and if this cavity is broken the powder will be dispers...

OBJECTIVE To document the practices and attitudes of the US physician members of the Society for Adolescent Medicine (SAM) regarding adolescent abortion and contraception, as well as physician willingness to prescribe medical abortion if approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). DESIGN Cross-sectional questionnaire survey. Participants. The entire physician membership of SAM (N = 10...

©FSRH J Fam Plann Reprod Health Care 2008: 34(1) Introduction Implanon® (Organon International, Oss, The Netherlands) is a single rod, subdermal contraceptive implant system designed to release the progestogen etonogestrel at a near constant rate over 3 years.1,2 This system entered the market in The Netherlands in 1998, and soon after in many other countries in Europe and Asia. It is now marke...

In Mali, the low utilization of reproductive health services in general and family planning (FP) particular contributes strongly to illnesses or deaths women during and/or after childbirth children under age one year. This situation is, among other things, logical consequence harmful practices, including closely spaced pregnancies, early clandestine abortions, access difficulties lack adequate ...

BACKGROUND Use of a reliable contraception method has become an inclusion criterion in prevention trials to minimize time off product. We report on hormonal contraceptive prevalence, uptake, sustained use and correlates of use in the Microbicides Development Programme (MDP 301) trial at the Masaka Centre in Uganda. METHODS HIV negative women in sero-discordant relationships were enrolled and ...