INTRODUCTION Determining whether hormonal contraception, particularly the injectable contraceptive depot-medroxyprogesterone acetate (DMPA), increases a woman's risk of HIV acquisition is a priority question for public health. However, assessing the relationship between various hormonal contraceptive methods and HIV acquisition with observational data involves substantial analytic design issues...

Objective To determine methods of contraception used by adolescents before and after pregnancy. Methods A cross-sectional study was performed, and data were collected from medical records of all teens in puerperal consultation at the Hospital da Mulher - José Aristodemo Pinotti (Caism), Universidade Estadual de Campinas (CAISM), São Paulo, Brazil, between July 2011 and September 2013. The inclu...

objective: in this study continuation rate and reasons for discontinuation of depot-medroxyprogestrone acetate (dmpa)and cyclofem have been compared. materials and methods: a retrospective cohort study was conducted with 422 women (202 cyclofemand 220 dmpa users)who had started using the methods 12-24 months before the study in east azerbaijan health houses. data were collected by reviewing the...