Obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive medicine guidelines

Family planning

Guidelines, reviews, statements, recommendations, standards

Barrier contraceptive methods

• International
  • Cochrane Library
    • Sponge versus diaphragm for contraception
    • Spermicide used alone for contraception
    • Nonlatex versus latex male condoms for contraception
    • Diaphragm versus diaphragm with spermicides for contraception
    • Cervical cap versus diaphragm for contraception
  • Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH)
    • Female Condom: A Powerful Tool for Protection [2006]
  • United Nations Population Fund
    • Female Condom: A Powerful Tool for Protection [2006]
• United Kingdom
  • Faculty of Sexual & Reproductive Healthcare
    • Barrier methods for contraception and STI prevention [2012]
  • National Guideline Clearinghouse
    • Barrier methods for contraception and STI prevention. Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare [2012]
• United States of America
  • American Academy of Pediatrics
    • Condom Use by Adolescents [2005]
• WHO
  • World Health Organization
    • Scientific and technical requirements to formulate a female condom generic specification and prequalification scheme: Female condom technical review committee report [2012]
    • Male latex condom: specification, prequalification and guidelines for procurement, 2010 [2010]
    • The male latex condom : specification and guidelines for condom procurement : 2003 [2004]
    • The female condom: a guide for planning and programming [2000]
• Articles in journals
  • American Family Physician
    • Diaphragm Fitting [2004]
  • Bulletin of the World Health Organization
    • Effects of condom social marketing on condom use in developing countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis, 1990–2010 [2012]
  • International Family Planning Perspectives
    • The Future of the Female Condom [2004]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Family planning, contraception

Contraceptive implants

• International
  • Cochrane Library
    • Subdermal implantable contraceptives versus other forms of reversible contraceptives or other implants as effective methods of preventing pregnancy
• Kenya
  • Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation
    • Checklist for Screening Clients Who Want to Initiate Contraceptive Implants [2010]
• United Kingdom
  • National Guideline Clearinghouse
    • Progestogen-only implants. Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare [2008]
  • Royal College of Nursing
    • Inserting and removing subdermal contraceptive implants. Accreditation and training guidance for nurses [2008]
  • Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
    • Lamotrigine and Implanon - query bank [2010]
• WHO
  • WHO Reproductive Health Library
    • Subdermal implantable contraceptives versus other forms of reversible contraceptives or other implants as effective methods of preventing pregnancy [2008]
• Articles in journals
  • Human Reproduction Update
    • Implantable contraceptives for women [2003]
  • Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care
    • Legal aspects of contraceptive implants [2010]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Hormonal contraception
    • Family planning, contraception

Family planning services

• Afghanistan
  • Bulletin of the World Health Organization
    • Achieving success with family planning in rural Afghanistan [2010]
• India
  • Ministry of Health and Family Welfare India
    • Family Planning Insurance Manual [2005]
• International
  • Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH)
    • Enhancing Equity and Sustainability of Public-Sector Family Planning [2010]
    • Meeting the Need: Strengthening Family Planning Programs [2006]
• Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Bulletin of the World Health Organization
    • Family planning in sub-Saharan Africa: progress or stagnation? [2011]
• United Kingdom
  • Medical Foundation for AIDS and Sexual Health
    • Recommended standards for sexual health services [2005]
• United States of America
  • Guttmacher Institute
    • Services and Financing
  • U.S. Department of Health and Human Services - Office of Population Affairs
    • Family Planning
• WHO
  • World Health Organization
    • A guide to family planning for community health workers and their clients [2012]
    • Universal access to reproductive health: Accelerated actions to enhance progress on Millennium through advancing Target 5B [2011]
    • Performance-based grants for reproductive health in the Philippines: policy brief [2011]
    • Impact of provider incentive payments on reproductive health services in Egypt : policy brief [2009]
    • Scaling up health service delivery: from pilot innovations to policies and programmes [2007]
    • Integrating sexual and reproductive health-care services [2006]
    • Financing sexual and reproductive health-care services [2006]
    • Decision-making tool for family planning clients & providers [2005]
• Articles in journals
  • American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology
    • Disparities in Family Planning [2010]
  • Bulletin of the World Health Organization
    • Climate change and family planning: least-developed countries define the agenda [2009]
  • Epidemiologic Reviews
    • Family Planning and the Burden of Unintended Pregnancies [2010]
  • International Family Planning Perspectives
    • Family Planning Policies and Their Impacts on the Poor: Peru's Experience [2007]
    • Whatever Happened to Family Planning And, for That Matter, Reproductive Health [2004]
  • Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic, & Neonatal Nursing
    • An Evidence-Based Guideline for Unintended Pregnancy Prevention [2011]
  • Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health
    • The Quality of Family Planning Services in the United States: Findings from a Literature Review [2007]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Family planning, contraception

Family planning, contraception

• 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]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Sterilization
    • Postpartum and postabortion contraception
    • Postcoital contraceptives
    • Oral contraceptives
    • Natural family planning
    • Male contraception, men and family planning
    • Intrauterine device (IUD)
    • Injectable contraceptives
    • Induced abortion
    • Hormonal contraception
    • Family planning services
    • Contraceptive implants
    • Barrier contraceptive methods
    • Adolescent pregnancy
    • Adolescent contraception

Female sterilization, tubal ligation

• Australia
  • Medical Services Advisory Committee
    • Hysteroscopic sterilisation by tubal cannulation and placement of intrafallopian implant [2003]
• International
  • Cochrane Library
    • Techniques for the interruption of tubal patency for female sterilisation
    • Minilaparotomy and endoscopic techniques for tubal sterilisation
  • EngenderHealth
    • Female Sterilization
• United Kingdom
  • National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence
    • Hysteroscopic sterilisation by tubal cannulation and placement of intrafallopian implants [2009]
  • Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
    • Laparoscopic Tubal Occlusion (Consent Advice) [2004]
• United States of America
  • CDC Reproductive Health
    • Female Sterilization
• WHO
  • WHO Reproductive Health Library
    • Minilaparotomy and endoscopic techniques for tubal sterilization [2009]
    • Techniques for the interruption of tubal patency for female sterilization [2003]
  • World Health Organization
    • The safety of quinacrine when used as a method of non-surgical sterilization in women : interim statement [2009]
• Articles in journals
  • American Family Physician
    • Counseling Issues in Tubal Sterilization [2003]
  • Human Reproduction Update
    • Tubal ligation and the risk of ovarian cancer: review and meta-analysis [2011]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Sterilization
  • Health News
    • Tubal Ligation Reversal News
  • Surgery - Free videos
    • Robotic tubal reversal - Free videos
    • Postpartum tubal sterilization - Free videos
    • Laparoscopic tubal reversal - Free videos
    • Laparoscopic tubal ligation - Free videos

Hormonal contraception

• Canada
  • Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
    • Canadian Consensus Guideline on Continuous and Extended Hormonal Contraception, 2007 [2007]
• International
  • Cochrane Library
    • Strategies to improve adherence and acceptability of hormonal methods for contraception
    • Steroidal contraceptives: effect on bone fractures in women
    • Skin patch and vaginal ring versus combined oral contraceptives for contraception
    • Immediate start of hormonal contraceptives for contraception
    • Hormonal versus non-hormonal contraceptives in women with diabetes mellitus type 1 and 2
    • Hormonal contraceptives for contraception in overweight or obese women
    • Continuous or extended cycle vs. cyclic use of combined hormonal contraceptives for contraception
• United Kingdom
  • Centre for Reviews and Dissemination, University of York
    • The cost-effectiveness of a long-acting reversible contraceptive (Implanon) relative to oral contraception in a community setting [2009]
  • Faculty of Sexual & Reproductive Healthcare
    • Drug interactions with hormonal contraception [2011]
    • Combined hormonal contraception [2011]
  • National Guideline Clearinghouse
    • Drug interactions with hormonal contraception. Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare [2012]
    • Venous thromboembolism and hormonal contraception. Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists [2011]
    • Combined hormonal contraception. Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare [2011]
    • Management of unscheduled bleeding in women using hormonal contraception. Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare [2009]
  • Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
    • Lymphangioma and progesterone contraception - query bank [2012]
    • Venous Thromboembolism and Hormonal Contraception [2010]
• United States of America
  • National Guideline Clearinghouse
    • Long-acting reversible contraception: implants and intrauterine devices. American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists [2011]
    • Noncontraceptive uses of hormonal contraceptives. American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists [2010]
    • Use of hormonal contraception in women with coexisting medical conditions. American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists [2006]
• WHO
  • WHO Reproductive Health Library
    • Strategies to improve adherence and acceptability of hormonal methods for contraception [2011]
    • Immediate start of hormonal contraceptives for contraception [2009]
    • Treatment of vaginal bleeding irregularities induced by progestin-only contraceptives [2007]
  • World Health Organization
    • Technical Consultation on the effects of hormonal contraception on bone health [2007]
• Articles in journals
  • American Family Physician
    • Managing Adverse Effects of Hormonal Contraceptives [2010]
    • Initiating Hormonal Contraception [2006]
  • British Medical Journal
    • Assessing the risk of venous thromboembolic events in women taking progestin-only contraception: a meta-analysis [2012]
  • Canadian Family Physician
    • Risks of venous thromboembolism with various hormonal contraceptives [2012]
  • Human Reproduction Update
    • Strategies to prevent unintended pregnancy: increasing use of long-acting reversible contraception [2011]
    • Hormonal contraception and risk of cancer [2010]
    • New progestagens for contraceptive use [2006]
    • Demographic effects of the introduction of steroid contraception in developed countries [2006]
    • Hormonal contraception without estrogens [2003]
  • Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism
    • Progestogen-Only Contraceptives and the Risk of Acute Myocardial Infarction: A Meta-Analysis [2011]
  • Journal of the American College of Cardiology
    • Contraceptive Hormone Use and Cardiovascular Disease [2009]
  • Medical Journal of Australia
    • The efficacy of non-contraceptive uses for hormonal contraceptives [2003]
  • Pediatrics
    • Hormonal Contraception and Thrombotic Risk: A Multidisciplinary Approach [2011]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Postcoital contraceptives
    • Oral contraceptives
    • Male contraception, men and family planning
    • Intrauterine device (IUD)
    • Injectable contraceptives
    • Family planning, contraception
    • Contraceptive implants

Induced abortion

• Australia
  • Pregnancy Advisory Centre
    • Pregnancy Advisory Centre
• Canada
  • Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
    • Mifepristone [2009]
    • Induced Abortion Guidelines [2006]
• China
  • BMC Health Services Research
    • Unintended pregnancy and induced abortion among unmarried women in China: a systematic review [2004]
• International
  • Cochrane Library
    • Surgical versus medical methods for second trimester induced abortion
    • Surgical methods for first trimester termination of pregnancy
    • Medical versus surgical methods for first trimester termination of pregnancy
    • Medical methods for mid-trimester termination of pregnancy
    • Medical methods for first trimester abortion
    • Cervical preparation for first trimester surgical abortion
    • Antibiotics for incomplete abortion
  • EngenderHealth
    • Postabortion Care
  • Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH)
    • Medabon for Medical Abortion: Resource Materials for Health Care Providers and Program Managers [2009]
    • Safe abortion
• Nepal
  • Center for Research on Environment Health and Population Activities
    • Increasing Awareness and Access to Safe Abortion among Nepalese Women: An evaluation of Network for Addressing Women's Reproductive Rights in Nepal (NAWRN) Program [2009]
    • The Influence of Male Partners in Pregnancy Decision-Making and Outcomes in Nepal [2007]
    • Unsafe Abortion. Nepal Country Profile 2006 [2006]
    • Nepal Comprehensive Abortion Care (CAC) National Facility-based Abortion Study 2006 [2006]
  • Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH)
    • Women's Right to Choose: Partnerships for Safe Abortion in Nepal [2005]
  • Safe Motherhood in Nepal
    • An Exploratory Study of Complications from CAC: Improvement of the Quality of Comprehensive Abortion Care (CAC) Services in Nepal [2008]
    • Safe Abortion within Safe Motherhood Programming [2007]
    • Effects of the Global Gag Rule on Safe Abortion Programming in Nepal [2007]
• United Kingdom
  • Department of Health UK
    • Abortion statistics, England and Wales
  • Health Technology Assessment
    • Randomised preference trial of medical versus surgical termination of pregnancy less than 14 weeks' gestation (TOPS) [2009]
  • Royal College of Nursing
    • Abortion care : RCN guidance for nurses, midwives and specialist community public health nurses [2008]
  • Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
    • The Care of Women Requesting Induced Abortion [2011]
    • Abortion after endometrial ablation - query bank [2011]
    • Abortion in a woman with pulmonary hypertension - query bank [2009]
    • Abortion Care Study Day, 28 April 2008 [2008]
• United States of America
  • American Academy of Family Physicians
    • Reproductive Decisions [2011]
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    • Abortion Surveillance — United States, 2009 [2012]
  • Guttmacher Institute
    • Abortion
  • U.S. Agency for International Development
    • Postabortion Care
• Vietnam
  • Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH)
    • Examining the Costs of Providing Medical Abortion in Vietnam [2006]
• WHO
  • WHO Regional Office for Europe
    • Improving access to safe abortion care and related reproductive health services in the European Region [2012]
  • WHO Reproductive Health Library
    • Surgical versus medical methods for second-trimester induced abortion [2008]
    • Medical versus surgical methods for first trimester termination of pregnancy [2006]
    • Medical methods for first trimester abortion [2004]
  • World Health Organization
    • Safe abortion: technical and policy guidance for health systems [2012]
    • Unsafe abortion: global and regional estimates of incidence of unsafe abortion and associated mortality in 2008 [2011]
    • What health-care providers say on providing abortion care in Cape Town, South Africa: findings from a qualitative study: social science policy brief [2010]
    • Unsafe Abortion: Global and Regional Incidence, Trends, Consequences, and Challenges [2009]
    • Unsafe abortion - Global and regional estimates of the incidence of unsafe abortion and associated mortality in 2003 - 5th edition [2007]
    • Unsafe abortion: the preventable pandemic [2006]
    • Preventing unsafe abortion and its consequences - Priorities for Research and Action [2006]
    • Managing incomplete abortion [2006]
    • Frequently Asked Clinical Questions about medical abortion [2006]
    • Preventing unsafe abortion
• Articles in journals
  • American Journal of Public Health
    • Medical Liability Insurance as a Barrier to the Provision of Abortion Services in Family Medicine [2008]
  • Archives of Gynecology and Obstetrics
    • Misoprostol and termination of pregnancy: is there a need for ultrasound screening in a general population to assess the risk for adverse outcome in cases of uterine anomaly? [2011]
  • British Journal of Psychiatry
    • Abortion and mental health: quantitative synthesis and analysis of research published 1995–2009 [2011]
  • Bulletin of the World Health Organization
    • Women, abortion and the new technical and policy guidance from WHO [2012]
    • Comparative effectiveness, safety and acceptability of medical abortion at home and in a clinic: a systematic review [2011]
  • Human Reproduction Update
    • Mid-trimester induced abortion: a review [2007]
  • International Family Planning Perspectives
    • Relationships Between Contraception and Abortion: A Review of the Evidence [2003]
    • Essential Elements of Postabortion Care: Origins, Evolution and Future Directions [2003]
    • Client-Provider Communication in Postabortion Care [2003]
  • Journal of the American Board of Family Practice
    • Medication Abortion and Family Physicians' Scope of Practice [2005]
  • Medical Journal of Australia
    • Medical abortion for Australian women: it's time [2005]
  • Reproductive Health
    • Reductions in Abortion-Related Mortality following Policy Reform: Evidence from Romania, South Africa and Bangladesh [2011]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Postpartum and postabortion contraception
    • Family planning, contraception
    • Ethics, jurisprudence: obstetrics, gynecology
    • Ethics, jurisprudence: fetus, newborn
    • Adolescent pregnancy
    • Adolescent contraception
    • Abortion law

Injectable contraceptives

• Canada
  • Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
    • Canadian Contraception Consensus - Update on Depot Medroxyprogesterone Acetate (DMPA) [2006]
• Hong Kong
  • Hong Kong Medical Journal
    • Bone loss associated with long-term use of depot medroxyprogesterone acetate [2005]
• International
  • Cochrane Library
    • Depot medroxyprogesterone versus Norethisterone oenanthate for long-acting progestogenic contraception
• Kenya
  • Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation
    • Checklist for Screening Clients Who Want to Initiate DMPA (or NET-EN) [2010]
• Uganda
  • Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH)
    • Evaluation of a Disposable Needle-Removal Device in Uganda: A HealthTech Report [2005]
• United Kingdom
  • National Guideline Clearinghouse
    • Progestogen-only injectable contraception. Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare [2009]
  • Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
    • Heavy bleeding with depo-provera - query bank [2011]
• United States of America
  • Society for Adolescent Medicine
    • Depot Medroxyprogesterone Acetate and Bone Mineral Density in Adolescents - The Black Box Warning [2006]
  • University of Michigan Evidence-Based Pediatrics
    • Weight Gain Can Be Significant With Depot Medroxyprogesterone Acetate (DMPA) Depending On Baseline Risk Factors [2005]
    • Depo-Provera and Norplant Do Not Cause More Weight Gain than Oral Contraceptive Pills [2001]
• WHO
  • WHO Reproductive Health Library
    • Depot-medroxyprogesterone versus norethisterone enantate for long-acting progestogenic contraception [2006]
  • World Health Organization
    • Community-based providers in rural Guatemala can provide the injectable contraceptive DMPA safely : Social science policy brief [2009]
• Articles in journals
  • Diabetes Care
    • Effects of Injectable or Implantable Progestin-Only Contraceptives on Insulin-Glucose Metabolism and Diabetes Risk [2003]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Hormonal contraception
    • Family planning, contraception

Intrauterine device (IUD)

• Europe
  • European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology
    • Intrauterine devices and intrauterine systems [2008]
• International
  • Cochrane Library
    • Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs for heavy bleeding or pain associated with intrauterine-device use 
    • Intrauterine devices for contraception - Special Collection
    • Interventions for pain with intrauterine device insertion
    • Hormonally impregnated intrauterine systems (IUSs) versus other forms of reversible contraceptives as effective methods of preventing pregnancy
    • Frameless versus classical intrauterine device for contraception
    • Copper containing, framed intra-uterine devices for contraception
    • Copper containing intra-uterine devices versus depot progestogens for contraception
    • Antibiotic prophylaxis for intrauterine contraceptive device insertion
• Kenya
  • Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation
    • Checklist for Screening Clients Who Want to Initiate Use of the Copper IUCD [2010]
• United Kingdom
  • Royal College of Nursing
    • Intrauterine techniques. RCN accreditation and training guidance for nurses and midwives [2008]
  • Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
    • Mirena and Actinomyces - query bank [2012]
    • IUD removal in pregnancy - query bank [2012]
    • Mirena and breast cancer - query bank [2010]
    • Extrauterine Lippes loop - query bank [2010]
    • Endometrial hyperplasia follow-up [2010]
• WHO
  • WHO Reproductive Health Library
    • Copper-containing, framed intrauterine devices for contraception [2006]
    • Antibiotic prophylaxis for intrauterine contraceptive device insertion [2002]
  • World Health Organization
    • The TCu380A intrauterine contraceptive device (IUD): sprecification, prequalification and guidelines for procurement, 2010 [2011]
• Articles in journals
  • American Family Physician
    • Insertion and Removal of Intrauterine Devices [2005]
  • Bangladesh Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
    • Levonorgestrel Intrauterine System Mirena: An Update [2008]
  • Canadian Medical Association Journal
    • Preventing pregnancy: a fresh look at the IUD [2003]
  • Obstetrics & Gynecology
    • Using an Intrauterine Device in Immunocompromised Women [2008]
  • RadioGraphics
    • Migration of Intrauterine Devices: Radiologic Findings and Implications for Patient Care [2012]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Hormonal contraception
    • Family planning, contraception

Male contraception, men and family planning

• International
  • EngenderHealth
    • Men's Reproductive Health Curriculum [2003]
• Articles in journals
  • African Journal of Traditional, Complementary and Alternative medicines
    • Complementary and Alternative Medicines: The Herbal Male Contraceptives [2011]
  • American Journal of Reproductive Immunology
    • Antisperm Contraceptive Vaccines: Where we are and where we are going? [2011]
  • Asian Journal of Andrology
    • Does ethnicity matter in male hormonal contraceptive efficacy? [2011]
    • Effects of plants and plant products on the testis [2010]
  • Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics
    • Pharmacologic Development of Male Hormonal Contraceptive Agents [2011]
  • Contraception
    • Recent methodological advances in male hormonal contraception [2010]
  • Current Medicinal Chemistry
    • Testicular Cell Junction: A Novel Target for Male Contraception [2009]
  • Current Opinion in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Obesity
    • Progress and prospects in male hormonal contraception [2008]
  • Current Opinion in Urology
    • Hormonal Approaches to Male contraception [2010]
  • Human Reproduction Update
    • Male hormonal contraception: concept proven, product in sight? [2006]
  • Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism
    • Hormonal Male Contraception--Lessons from the East When the Western Market Fails [2003]
  • Journal of Endocrinology
    • Drug transporters, the blood–testis barrier, and spermatogenesis [2011]
  • Pharmacological Reviews
    • The Blood-Testis Barrier and Its Implications for Male Contraception [2012]
  • Physiological Reviews
    • Cell Junction Dynamics in the Testis: Sertoli-Germ Cell Interactions and Male Contraceptive Development [2002]
  • Reproduction
    • Adjudin, a potential male contraceptive, exerts its effects locally in the seminiferous epithelium of mammalian testes [2011]
  • Trends in Endocrinology & Metabolism
    • Inhibiting Vitamin A Metabolism As An Approach To Male Contraception [2011]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Vasectomy, vasectomy reversal
    • Hormonal contraception
    • Family planning, contraception

Natural family planning

• International
  • Cochrane Library
    • Lactational amenorrhea for family planning
• United Kingdom
  • Fertility Awareness and Natural Family Planning Service
    • Fertility Awareness and Natural Family Planning Service
• Articles in journals
  • International Family Planning Perspectives
    • Fertility Awareness-Based Methods of Family Planning: Predictors of Correct Use [2006]
    • The Standard Days Method of Family Planning: A Response to Cairo [2003]
  • Journal of the American Board of Family Practice
    • Fertility Awareness-Based Methods: Another Option for Family Planning [2009]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Family planning, contraception

Oral contraceptives

• Australia
  • Cancer Council Australia
    • Combined oral contraceptives and cancer risk [2006]
• Canada
  • National Guideline Clearinghouse
    • Missed hormonal contraceptives: new recommendations. Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada [2008]
  • Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
    • Oral contraceptives and the risk of venous thromboembolism: An update [2010]
    • Statement on generic oral contraceptives [2008]
    • Missed Hormonal Contraceptives: New Recommendations [2008]
• International
  • Cochrane Library
    • Triphasic versus monophasic oral contraceptives for contraception
    • Progestogens in combined oral contraceptives for contraception
    • Oral contraceptives for functional ovarian cysts
    • Combination contraceptives: effects on weight
    • Biphasic versus triphasic oral contraceptives for contraception
    • Biphasic versus monophasic oral contraceptives for contraception
    • 20 mcg versus >20 mcg Estrogen combined oral contraceptives for contraception
  • Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care
    • Oral contraceptives and venous thromboembolism consensus opinion from an international workshop held in Berlin, Germany in December 2009 [2010]
• Kenya
  • Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation
    • Checklist for Screening Clients Who Want to Initiate Combined Oral Contraceptives [2010]
• United Kingdom
  • Centre for Reviews and Dissemination, University of York
    • Should female relatives of factor V Leiden carriers be screened prior to oral contraceptive use? A cost-effectiveness analysis [2008]
  • Faculty of Sexual & Reproductive Healthcare
    • Progestogen-only pills [2009]
  • National Guideline Clearinghouse
    • Progestogen-only pills. Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare [2009]
• United States of America
  • National Cancer Institute
    • Oral Contraceptives and Cancer Risk: Q & A [2006]
• WHO
  • WHO Reproductive Health Library
    • Monophasic versus multiphasic oral contraceptives [2009]
    • Progestogens in combined oral contraceptives for contraception [2006]
  • World Health Organization
    • Carcinogenicity of combined hormonal contraceptives and combined menopausal treatment [2005]
• Articles in journals
  • Acta Reumatológica Portuguesa
    • Oral contraceptives and systemic lupus erythematosus: what should we advise to our patients? [2010]
  • Gynecological Endocrinology
    • An overview of the development of combined oral contraceptives containing estradiol: focus on estradiol valerate/dienogest [2012]
  • Human Reproduction
    • Continuous versus cyclic use of combined oral contraceptives for contraception: systematic Cochrane review of randomized controlled trials [2006]
  • Human Reproduction Update
    • Noncontraceptive health benefits of combined oral contraception [2005]
  • Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism
    • Association between the Current Use of Low-Dose Oral Contraceptives and Cardiovascular Arterial Disease: A Meta-Analysis [2005]
  • Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Canada (JOGC)
    • Oral Contraception Without Prescription? Help Yourself [2008]
  • Journal of Women's Health
    • Studying the Use of Oral Contraception: A Review of Measurement Approaches [2010]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Postcoital contraceptives
    • Hormonal contraception
    • Family planning, contraception

Postcoital contraceptives

• Canada
  • Canadian Paediatric Society
    • Emergency contraception [2010]
  • National Guideline Clearinghouse
    • Emergency contraception. Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada [2012]
  • Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
    • Emergency Contraception [2012]
• Ethiopia
  • Ethiopian Society of Obstetricians & Gynecologists
    • Emergency Contraception Guideline
• International
  • Cochrane Library
    • Interventions for emergency contraception
  • Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH)
    • Resources for Emergency Contraceptive Pill Programming: A Toolkit [2004]
  • Reproductive Health Response in Conflict Consortium
    • Emergency Contraception for Conflict Affected Settings: A Reproductive Health Response in Conflict Consortium Distance Learning Module, 2004 [2004]
• Kenya
  • Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation
    • Emergency contraception: Health care providers quick reference guide [2008]
  • Population Council - Kenya
    • Mainstreaming emergency contraception pills in Kenya [2010]
    • Mainstreaming emergency contraception in Kenya [2009]
• United Kingdom
  • Centre for Reviews and Dissemination, University of York
    • Population effect of increased access to emergency contraceptive pills: a systematic review [2008]
  • Faculty of Sexual & Reproductive Healthcare
    • Emergency contraception [2012]
  • National Guideline Clearinghouse
    • Emergency contraception. Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare [2012]
  • Royal College of Nursing
    • The role of school nurses in providing emergency contraception services in educational settings [2006]
• United States of America
  • American Academy of Pediatrics
    • Emergency Contraception [2012]
  • Mass.Gov
    • Access to Emergency Contraception
  • National Guideline Clearinghouse
    • Emergency contraception. American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists [2010]
  • Society for Adolescent Medicine
    • Emergency Contraception [2004]
  • University of Michigan Evidence-Based Pediatrics
    • Levonorgestrel Has Fewer Side Effects, But No Statistically Significant Difference in Efficacy When Compared with the Yuzpe Regimen for Emergency Contraception [2002]
  • Wisconsin Medical Journal
    • Emergency contraception and physicians' rights of conscience: a review of current legal standards in Wisconsin [2009]
• WHO
  • World Health Organization
    • Fact sheet on the safety of levonorgestrel-alone emergency contraceptive pills (LNG ECPs) [2010]
• Articles in journals
  • American Family Physician
    • Emergency Contraception [2004]
  • British Medical Journal
    • Emergency contraception [2003]
  • Bulletin of the World Health Organization
    • Emergency contraception: dispelling the myths and misperceptions [2010]
  • Human Reproduction
    • Community pharmacy supply of emergency hormonal contraception: a structured literature review of international evidence [2006]
  • Medical Journal of Malaysia
    • Emergency Contraception Pill - Controversies and Use [2007]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Oral contraceptives
    • Hormonal contraception
    • Family planning, contraception

Postpartum and postabortion contraception

• International
  • Cochrane Library
    • Immediate postabortal insertion of intrauterine devices
    • Immediate post-partum insertion of intrauterine devices
    • Education for contraceptive use by women after childbirth
    • Combined hormonal versus nonhormonal versus progestin-only contraception in lactation
• South Africa
  • Maternal Care Manual - Perinatal Education Programme
    • Family planning after pregnancy [2006]
• United States of America
  • Academy of BreastFeeding Medicine
    • Contraception during breastfeeding [2005]
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    • 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 [2011]
• WHO
  • WHO Reproductive Health Library
    • Immediate postpartum insertion for intrauterine devices [2010]
    • Combined hormonal versus nonhormonal versus progestin-only contraception in lactation [2009]
    • Immediate postabortion insertion of intrauterine devices [2005]
  • World Health Organization
    • Technical consultation on hormonal contraceptive use during lactation and effects on the newborn : summary report, Geneva, Switzerland, 22 October 2008 [2010]
    • Combined hormonal contraceptive use during the postpartum period: 26 January 2010, Geneva, Switzerland: statement [2010]
    • Progestogen-only contraceptive use during lactation and its effects on the neonate [2009]
• Articles in journals
  • Contraception
    • Controversies in Family Planning: Timing of ovulation after abortion and the conundrum of post-abortion IUD insertion [2011]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Postpartum (puerperium)
    • Induced abortion
    • Family planning, contraception

Sterilization

• India
  • Ministry of Health and Family Welfare India
    • Standards for female and male sterilization services [2006]
    • Quality assurance manual for sterilization services [2006]
• United Kingdom
  • Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
    • Male and Female Sterilisation [2004]
• United States of America
  • National Guideline Clearinghouse
    • Benefits and risks of sterilization. American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists [2013]
  • U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
    • Elective Sterilization and Reversal (Tubal Ligation and Vasectomy) [2004]
• Articles in journals
  • British Medical Journal
    • Sterilisation of young, competent, and childless adults [2005]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Vasectomy, vasectomy reversal
    • Female sterilization, tubal ligation
    • Family planning, contraception
    • Ethics, jurisprudence: obstetrics, gynecology

Vasectomy, vasectomy reversal

• Canada
  • Canadian Urological Association
    • Vasectomy Update 2010 [2010]
• International
  • Cochrane Library
    • Scalpel versus no-scalpel incision for vasectomy
  • EngenderHealth
    • Vasectomy
• United States of America
  • American Society for Reproductive Medicine
    • Vasectomy
  • American Urological Association
    • Vasectomy: AUA guideline [2012]
    • Vasectomy and Prostate Cancer [2008]
    • Routine Histologic Confirmation Unnecessary in Performing Vasectomy [2007]
  • CDC Reproductive Health
    • Vasectomy
  • National Guideline Clearinghouse
    • Vasectomy: AUA guideline [2012]
• WHO
  • WHO Reproductive Health Library
    • Scalpel versus no-scalpel incision for vasectomy [2009]
    • Vasectomy occlusion techniques for male sterilization [2008]
• Articles in journals
  • American Family Physician
    • Vasectomy: An Update [2006]
  • BMC Medicine
    • Vasectomy surgical techniques: a systematic review [2004]
  • British Medical Journal
    • Recent developments in vasectomy [2005]
  • Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation
    • Modelling cost-effectiveness of different vasectomy methods in India, Kenya, and Mexico [2007]
  • Human Reproduction
    • Vasectomy techniques for male sterilization: systematic Cochrane review of randomized controlled trials and controlled clinical trials [2004]
  • Revista do Hospital das Clinicas
    • The best infertility treatment for vasectomized men: assisted reproduction or vasectomy reversal? [2005]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Sterilization
    • Male contraception, men and family planning
  • Health News
    • Vasectomy Reversal News
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