TikTok and Instagram misinformation is reportedly causing some women to stop taking their birth control.
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Fewer than one in 100 people who use IUDs and contraceptive implants become pregnant each year, making them the most effective contraceptives. But they can be difficult to access. Here’s why.
The increase in abortion restrictions may also lead to a decline in access to emergency contraceptives.
The term voluntary sterilization, referring to the choice to receive permanent birth control, arose as a contrast to the involuntary, or forced, sterilization that stems from the eugenics movement.
Despite side effects, women continue to take contraceptives because there are no better options available.
Doctors hear many of the same basic questions about sex from their patients.
Unlike condoms, which need to be used every time with sex, or the pill, which must be taken every day, LARC doesn’t require any action after placement in the body and is immediately reversible.
Nigeria must reduce its population growth to increase the quality of life for people in the country. A better knowledge of contraceptives can help achieve this.
Providing women with a range of reproductive health options – from abortions to IUDs – is not only essential for their financial security but good for the economy as well.
Few Australian women use long-acting reversible contraception, despite its advantages over other methods. These contraceptives offer women long-term, cost-effective, “fit-and-forget” contraception.
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Professor of Practice, The Daffodil Centre, a joint venture with Cancer Council NSW, University of Sydney
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Associate professor, University of Ibadan
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Finkel Professor of Global Health, Monash University
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Senior Research Fellow, Deakin University
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Senior Research Fellow, Global and Women's Health, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University
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Senior Research Fellow, Jean Hailes Research Unit, School of Public Health & Preventive Medicine, Monash University
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Assistant Professor of Health Communication, University of Connecticut
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Service Assistant Professor in Family Medicine, West Virginia University
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Chancellor's Professor of Medicine, Liberal Arts, and Philanthropy, Indiana University
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Lecturer in Nursing, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Monash University
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Associate Professor, Nuffield Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology,, University of Oxford
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Venable Professor of Law, University of Baltimore
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Epidemiologist at University of Oxford, University of Oxford
