OBJECTIVE To examine the absolute risks or benefits on cancer associated with oral contraception, using incident data. DESIGN Inception cohort study. SETTING Royal College of General Practitioners' oral contraception study. PARTICIPANTS Directly standardised data from the Royal College of General Practitioners' oral contraception study. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Adjusted relative risks betw...

Background The fertility rate in Nigeria is 5.7 children per woman. The contraceptive prevalence rate has been found to be low at 15% in 2013, compared to other countries such as the US and Pakistan. Objective The study aimed to assess the contraceptive prevalence among women of reproductive age in Ogbomoso town, and determinants of use, with a view to make appropriate recommendations that wi...

background: pregnancy prevention is an important factor in women's life changing in various periods. selection of contraception method is personally unique and can bridge between their experiences and their unmet needs. the aim of this study was to determine contraception experiences in the first years of marriage. methods: this was a qualitative phenomenological study. the studied population w...

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BACKGROUND For women living with HIV, contraception using condoms is recommended because it prevents not only unintended pregnancy but also acquisition of other sexually transmitted infections and onward transmission of HIV. Dual-method dual-protection contraception (condoms with other contraceptive methods) is preferable over single-method dual-protection contraception (condoms alone) because ...

PURPOSE The aim of this study was to determine whether categories of contraception differ in their impact on seizures in women with epilepsy and whether the impact varies by antiepileptic drug category. METHODS Retrospective survey data came from 2712 contraceptive experiences reported by 1144 women with epilepsy. We compared risk ratios for reports of increase and decrease in seizure frequen...

CONTEXT The reproductive health hazards of unintended pregnancies and unsafe abortions are well documented. The potential of emergency contraceptives to prevent unwanted pregnancy in developed countries has been described, but in Nigeria, the awareness about the method is poor and no study has looked at efficacy. METHODS Between September and October 2001, a randomly selected sample of female...

BACKGROUND AND METHODOLOGY As the prognosis of patients with cystic fibrosis (CF) improves, issues of sexual health, fertility, pregnancy and contraception are increasingly important. In order to plan the provision of a contraception and sexual health service for women with CF we studied their sexual and reproductive history, their current usage of contraception, the sources and quality of advi...