Brazilian women rely on sterilization as the main source of birth control. Sterilization has been one of the causes of the steep decline in fertility in Brazil, at least since the second half of 1970. It is hypothesized that understanding couples' relationships might be key to explaining this high rate of female sterilizations. Possible reasons for the higher level of fertility among women in u...

OBJECTIVE To review the use of quinacrine pellets for non-surgical female sterilization. BACKGROUND The transcervical insertion of quinacrine pellets has been under study for over 15 years. It could potentially expand access to sterilization services, because it is relatively simple to administer, with the use of a modified IUD inserter, and is inexpensive. METHODS Published and unpublished...

INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 600 R I. GENERAL BACKGROUND OF FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION . 601 R II. GENERAL BACKGROUND OF ASYLUM LAW AND THE SOCIALGROUP CATEGORY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 604 R A. The Definition of “Refugee” and “Persecution” . . . . . 604 R B. The...

Received: April 18th, 2012 Accepted for Publication: May 13th, 2012 ABSTRACT -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Background: Given technological advances over the past few decades, female surgical sterilization has become a safe, convenient, easy, and highly effective birth control method for the long term. Objective: This study aims at...

Female sterilization, one of the most effective forms of pregnancy prevention, can be performed remote from pregnancy (interval sterilization) or around the time of delivery. Modern methods for sterilization include tubal interruption, salpingectomy, and transcervical sterilization. Tubal interruption has been the primary method for interval sterilization for decades, developing as a means of r...

Over 170 million couples worldwide use surgical sterilization as a safe and reliable method of contraception. In the United States, sterilization is the most commonly used method among married or formerly married women. An estimated 640,000 female sterilization procedures and 500.000 male sterilization procedures are performed each year ( 1, 2). In 1988. sterilizations accounted for 39% of cont...

About 50 studies based on the 1988 National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG) and a telephone reinterview conducted with the same women two years later provide continuing information about the fertility and health of American women. Among the findings of these studies are that black women have almost twice as many pregnancies as do white women (5.1 vs. 2.8), with nearly all of the difference being...