Contraceptive choice in the 1st 1075 acceptors at an urban clinic in Lagos, Nigeria is studied using clinical notes of all patients who attended the clinic between September 1, 1980 and August 31, 1983. Details of previous and current contraception, age, parity and level of education are analyzed. The IUD was the most popular choice followed by the injectable contraceptive and the pill. Inte...

Many English noun pairs suggest an almost limitless array of semantic interpretation. A fruit bowl might be described as a bowl for fruit, a bowl that contains fruit, a bowl for holding fruit, or even (perhaps in a modern sculpture class), a bowl made out of fruit. These interpretations vary in syntax, semantic denotation, plausibility, and level of semantic detail. For example, a headache pill...

INTRODUCTION In Nigeria about 50% of oral contraceptive pill users obtain their products from proprietary patent medicine vendors (PPMVs). This group of service providers are poorly trained and have very limited knowledge about contraception. This paper investigated the nature of the advice offered to simulated current and potential users of oral contraceptive pills. The main objective was to a...

This year marked the 50th anniversary of the FDA approval of the birth control pill, and with that milestone came numerous stories about the sexual liberation of women. While the pill deserves much credit for revolutionizing our sexual culture, it merits even more for transforming our workforce. Providers have long known the individual and public health benefits of family planning, but the medi...

OBJECTIVE To describe the degree of difficulty that HIV-infected patients have with therapy treatment. INTRODUCTION Patients perceptions about their treatment are a determinant factor for improved adherence and a better quality of life. METHODS Two cross-sectional analyses were conducted in public AIDS referral centers in Brazil among patients initiating treatment. Patients interviewed at b...

BACKGROUND Data on small intestinal transit time in healthy children are lacking, and normal values for gastric emptying and colonic transit time are sparse. Conventional methods, including radiopaque markers, scintigraphy, and PillCam™ involve radiation or require the child to swallow a large pill. The minimally invasive, radiation-free Motility Tracking System-1 (MTS-1) has been introduced fo...

“The future is not likely to be dull”. This statement, made by the Family Planning Association (now known as fpa) in 19601 when it launched the first UK trial of the oral contraceptive pill, proved to be more than accurate! Four decades on from the introduction of ‘the Pill’ in 1961 (1960 in the US), history graphically illustrates how oral contraception not only revolutionised the field of bir...

CONTEXT To increase effective contraceptive use among adolescents at high risk of pregnancy, it is important to understand what factors influence them to visit a clinic for contraception, including support from their mothers, male partners and friends. METHODS Data from a prospective cohort study of 399 teenage clinic attendees using the pill, the implant or condoms were collected through a q...