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Afghanistan

• Ministry of Public Health Afghanistan
  • National Family Planning/Birth Spacing Strategy 2006 – 2009 [2006]

Africa

• Bulletin of the World Health Organization
  • Low use of contraception among poor women in Africa: an equity issue [2011]

Canada

• Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
  • Canadian contraception consensus. Part 3 [2004]
  • Canadian contraception consensus. Part 2 [2004]
  • Canadian contraception consensus. Part 1 [2004]

Europe

• European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology
  • Female contraception over 40 [2009]

International

• Cochrane Library
  • Theory-based interventions for contraception
  • Strategies for communicating contraceptive effectiveness

• Demographic and Health Surveys
  • Family Planning

• EngenderHealth
  • Family Planning

• International Women's Health Coalition
  • Contraception

• Policy Project
  • Family Planning/Reproductive Health

• Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH)
  • New and Underused Reproductive Health Technologies [2009]

• Reproductive Health Response in Conflict Consortium
  • Family Planning

• United Nations Population Division
  • World Contraceptive Use 2003 [2004]
  • Partnership and Reproductive Behaviour in Low-Fertility Countries [2003]
  • Completing the Fertility Transition [2002]

Iran

• Journal of Marriage and Family
  • Family Change and Continuity in Iran: Birth Control Use Before First Pregnancy [2009]

Kenya

• Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation
  • National Family Planning Guidelines for Service Providers [2010]
  • How to Be Reasonably Sure a Client Is Not Pregnant [2010]

• Population Council - Kenya
  • Kenya's fertility transition: Trends, determinants and implications for policy and programmes [2009]
  • Emergency contraception, female condoms and IUDs in Kenya's public sector: Findings from a national diagnostic assessment [2007]

Nepal

• Ministry of Health and Population Nepal
  • Repositioning Family Planning Strategic Review of the Nepal National Family Planning Program [2006]

Netherlands

• Health Council of the Netherlands
  • Contraception for people with mental retardation [2002]

Rwanda

• Ministry of Health Rwanda
  • National Family Planning Policy and its Five-Year Strategies (2006-2010) [2006]

United Kingdom

• Centre for Reviews and Dissemination, University of York
  • The impact of programs to increase contraceptive use among adult women: a review of experimental and quasi-experimental studies [2008]

• Faculty of Sexual & Reproductive Healthcare
  • Quick starting contraception [2010]
  • Contraception for women aged over 40 years [2010]
  • UK medical eligibility criteria for contraceptive use [2009]
  • Sexual and reproductive health for individuals with inflammatory bowel disease [2009]

• National Guideline Clearinghouse
  • Quick starting contraception. Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare [2010]
  • Contraception for women aged over 40 years. Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare [2010]
  • Sexual and reproductive health for individuals with inflammatory bowel disease. Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare [2009]

• National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence
  • Long acting reversible contraception (LARC) [2009]
  • Long-acting reversible contraception [2005]

• Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
  • Contraception and Contraceptive Use - study group statement [2005]

United States of America

• CDC Reproductive Health
  • Contraception

• Center for Reproductive Rights
  • Contraception

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • Contraceptive Methods Available to Patients of Office-Based Physicians and Title X Clinics --- United States, 2009--2010 [2011]
  • U.S. Medical Eligibility Criteria for Contraceptive Use, 2010 [2010]

• Guttmacher Institute
  • Contraception

• Michigan Quality Improvement Consortium
  • Prevention of unintended pregnancy in adults 18 years and older [2009]

• National Guideline Clearinghouse
  • (1) U.S. medical eligibility criteria for contraceptive use, 2010: adapted from the World Health Organization medical eligibility criteria for contraceptive use, 4th edition. (2) Update to CDC's U.S. medical eligibility criteria for contraceptive use, 2010: revised recommendations for the use of contraceptive methods during the postpartum period. (3) Update to CDC's U.S. medical eligibility criteria for contraceptive use, 2010: revised recommendations for the use of hormonal contraception among women at high risk for HIV infection or infected with HIV. [2012]
  • Prevention of unintended pregnancy in adults 18 years and older. Michigan Quality Improvement Consortium [2011]

• Population Reference Bureau
  • Islam and Family Planning [2004]

• U.S. Agency for International Development
  • Family Planning

• Wisconsin Medical Journal
  • Contraception in Wisconsin: a review [2010]

WHO

• WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean
  • Birth spacing: trainee's guide [2008]
  • Birth spacing: facilitator's guide [2008]

• World Health Organization
  • Family planning: a global handbook for providers: 2011 update: evidence-based guidance developed through worldwide collaboration [2011]
  • Medical eligibility criteria for contraceptive use - Fourth edition, 2009 [2010]
  • WHO medical eligibility criteria wheel for contraceptive use - 2008 update [2009]
  • Selected practice recommendations for contraceptive use - 2008 update [2008]
  • Medical eligibility criteria for contraceptive use: 2008 update [2008]
  • Family planning - a global handbook for providers [2007]
  • Report of a technical consultation on birth spacing [2006]
  • The effects of contraception on obstetric outcomes [2004]
  • Medical eligibility criteria for contraceptive use - Third edition [2004]
  • Beyond Acceptability: Users’ Perspectives on Contraception [1997]
  • Family planning

Articles in journals

• American Family Physician
  • Preventing Gaps When Switching Contraceptives [2011]
  • New Contraceptive Options [2004]

• American Journal of Reproductive Immunology
  • Contraceptive Vaccines Targeting Factors Involved in Establishment of Pregnancy [2011]

• Australian Family Physician
  • Contraception – common issues and practical suggestions [2012]
  • Catching up on contraception [2009]

• Canadian Medical Association Journal
  • Contraception in Canada: a review of method choices, characteristics, adherence and approaches to counselling [2007]

• Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine
  • Update on contraceptive options: A case-based discussion [2012]

• Human Reproduction
  • Recent advances in contraceptive vaccine development: a mini-review [2005]

• Human Reproduction Update
  • Why do people postpone parenthood? Reasons and social policy incentives [2011]

• Journal of Clinical Investigation
  • As the world grows: contraception in the 21st century [2008]

• Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care
  • Contraception for women taking antiepileptic drugs [2010]

• Journal of General Internal Medicine
  • Contraception for Cancer Survivors [2009]

• Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Canada (JOGC)
  • Religious and cultural influences on contraception [2008]

• Medical Journal of Australia
  • New contraceptive choices across reproductive life [2003]

• PLoS Medicine
  • Use of Modern Contraception by the Poor Is Falling Behind [2007]

• Postgraduate Medicine
  • Reversible Contraception Update: The Importance of Long-Acting Reversible Contraception [2009]

• Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology
  • Sperm specific proteins-potential candidate molecules for fertility control [2004]
  • Identification of sperm immunoreactive antigens for immunocontraceptive purposes: a review [2004]

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