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topics under category "Contraception
(Birth Control) and Family Planning".
Contraception (birth control)
is a regimen of one or more actions, devices, or medications followed in
order to deliberately prevent or reduce the likelihood of a woman
becoming pregnant or giving birth. Therefore contraception is the
utilization of various and sundry surgical procedures, devices,
practices, agents, or drugs with the intention of preventing conception
or impregnation (pregnancy). Methods and intentions typically termed
birth control may be considered a pivotal ingredient to family
planning. Birth control is a controversial political and ethical
issue in many cultures and religions, and although it is generally less
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Contraception (Birth Control) and Family Planning |
| Post-abortion family planning. |
| McLaurin KE; Senanayake P; Toubia N; Ladipo OA |
| WORLD HEALTH FORUM. 1995;16(1):52-5. |
| 24 international experts on reproductive health met in Italy in February 1993 to explore ways of making family planning |
| (FP) services available to postabortion women. They agreed that a range of contraceptive methods, accurate |
| information, sensitive counseling, and referral for ongoing care should be available to all women postabortion. |
| Furthermore, policy-makers and health care providers should be responsible for ensuring that women have access to |
| such services. Thus, abortion care facilities and FP programs need to work closely, and safe abortion care and |
| postabortion Fp should be an integral part of all safe motherhood initiatives. Finally, postabortion contraceptive |
| protocols should take into account the psychological and social needs of the clients. It was recommended that 1) |
| all abortion-care facilities offer FP services or referral to FP services and counseling; 2) abortion services be offered |
| as part of comprehensive reproductive health care; 3) abortion services be offered on an outpatient level in primary |
| health care settings; and 4) protocols on postabortion FP be developed and a supply of contraceptives be available |
| at abortion facilities. FP programs should likewise either offer or refer women to abortion services to the fullest extent |
| permissible by law. Issues of safety, counseling, respecting the rights of clients, and confidentiality were also |
| found to be important. Finally, the group recommended that further research be performed on 1) incorporating |
| women's perspectives into program design, 2) attitudes and interactions of users and providers of abortion care, 3) |
| programs for adolescents and for women with HIV, and 4) ways of linking abortion and FP services. Efforts to reduce |
| the deaths, disability, and poor health caused by unsafe abortion and poorly timed childbearing should be forwarded |
| without delay. (PubHealth.info Document ID: CONT2T 3004-06) |
| PubHealth.info NOTE: The author(s) of this article titled, "Post-abortion family planning.", is(are) McLaurin KE; |
| Senanayake P; Toubia N; Ladipo OA. The source of this article is "WORLD HEALTH FORUM. 1995;16(1):52-5.". |
| This article was published in 1995 in English language(s). (PubHealth.info® Document ID: CONT2T 3004-06. All |
| rights reserved with PubHealth.info) PIN: 8004 |
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