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Australian Family Physician
- The management of irregular bleeding in women using contraception [2017]
- Perimenopausal contraception: A practice-based approach [2017]

Australian Journal of General Practice
- Contraception for women over 40: A comprehensive guide [2024]

Australia, New Zealand

Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
- Contraception Clinical Guideline [2024]

Austria, Germany, Switzerland

Geburtshilfe und Frauenheilkunde
- S2k-Guideline Non-hormonal Contraception, Part 2: Intrauterine Devices and Sterilization: Guideline of the DGGG, OEGGG and SGGG (S2k-Level, AWMF Registry No. 015 - 095, January 2024) [2024]
- S2k-Guideline Non-hormonal Contraception, Part 1: Natural Family Planning, Lactational Amenorrhea, Barrier Methods, Coitus Interruptus: Guideline of the DGGG, OEGGG and SGGG (S2k-Level, AWMF Registry No. 015 - 095, January 2024) [2024]

Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Canada
- Contraception in Canada: A Nod to the Past and Look Into the Future [2019]

Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
- Canadian Contraception Consensus (Part 2 of 4) Abstract and Summary Statement [2015]
- Canadian Contraception Consensus (Part 1 of 4) Abstract and Summary Statement [2015]

BMJ Open
- Maternal depression and loss of children under the one-child family planning policy in China: a cross-sectional study of 300 000 women [2021]

Ethiopia, Senegal

Health Research Policy and Systems
- Dissemination and use of WHO family planning guidance and tools: a qualitative assessment [2018]

Europe, United States

European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations
- Science-Based Approach to Harmonize Contraception Recommendations in Clinical Trials and Pharmaceutical Labels [2023]

Collège National des Gynécologues et Obstétriciens Français
- Clinical practice guidelines for contraception by the French National College of Gynecologists and Obstetricians (CNGOF) [2019]

Bulletin of the World Health Organization
- Reclassifying contraceptives as over-the-counter medicines to improve access [2022]

Contraception
- Expanding contraceptive options: A scoping review of medically approved contraceptive methods that are not in the WHO Medical Eligibility Criteria [2025]
- Consensus recommendations for measuring the impact of contraception on the menstrual cycle in contraceptive clinical trials [2025]
- Values and preferences for contraception: A global systematic review [2022]
- Research gaps identified during the 2014 update of the WHO medical eligibility criteria for contraceptive use and selected practice recommendations for contraceptive use [2015]

Family Medicine and Community Health
- Priorities for research on family planning impact: recommendations of a WHO Think Tank meeting [2023]

Gynecological Endocrinology
- Contraception today and family planning: a comprehensive review and position statement on the ethical, medical, and social dimensions of modern contraception [2025]

SBCC Implementation Kits
- Healthy Timing and Spacing of Pregnancies – Addressing Advanced Maternal Age and High Parity in Family Planning Programs Implementation Kit

Sexual & Reproductive Healthcare
- Description of the methodology for developing and validating the WHO's family planning and comprehensive abortion care competencies for the primary health care workforce [2024]

Studies in Family Planning
- Undesired Births, Contraception, and Abortion Before and After the Cairo Consensus: Trends in Conditional Undesired Birth Rates and the Impact of Contraception and Abortion [2025]

United Nations Population Fund
- Seeing the Unseen: The case for action in the neglected crisis of unintended pregnancy [2022]

Journal of Nephrology
- Contraception in chronic kidney disease: a best practice position statement by the Kidney and Pregnancy Group of the Italian Society of Nephrology [2020]

Low and middle income countries

Studies in Family Planning
- Barriers and Enablers Influencing Women's Adoption and Continuation of Vaginally Inserted Contraceptive Methods: A Literature Review [2022]

Ministry of Health New Zealand
- New Zealand Aotearoa’s guidance on contraception [2020]

Republic of Korea

Obstetrics & Gynecology Science
- Contraception in the COVID-19 pandemic: recommendations from the Korean society of contraception and reproductive health [2022]

National Department of Health South Africa
- National contraception clinical guidelines 2019 [2019]

Sub-Saharan Africa

Global Health: Science and Practice
- Use of the World Health Organization’s Medical Eligibility Criteria for Contraceptive Use Guidance in sub-Saharan African Countries: A Cross-Sectional Study [2016]

Reproductive Health
- Towards achieving the family planning targets in the African region: a rapid review of task sharing policies [2021]

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
- Revisiting fertility regulation and family ties in Tunisia [2023]

College of Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare
- UK Medical Eligibility Criteria for Contraceptive Use (UKMEC)
- Quick Starting Contraception
- Management of SRH Issues
- Drug Interactions
- Contraception for Specific Populations
- Clinical Standards
- Association of Contraception with Medical Conditions

National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
- Contraception (Quality standard) [2016]

American College of Cardiology
- Contraception and Reproductive Planning for Women With Cardiovascular Disease: JACC Focus Seminar 5/5 [2021]

American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
- Opposition to Coercive Contraception Practices and Policies [2019]

American Journal of Nursing
- An Evidence-Based Update on Contraception [2020]

American Society for Reproductive Medicine
- Contraception

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- U.S. Selected Practice Recommendations for Contraceptive Use, 2024 [2024]
- U.S. Medical Eligibility Criteria for Contraceptive Use, 2024 [2024]

Circulation Research
- The 2024 US Medical Eligibility Criteria for Contraceptive Use: Application to Practice in the Care of Patients With Cardiac Disease [2025]

Contraception
- Using updated clinical recommendations to support contraceptive decision-making: U.S. medical eligibility criteria for contraceptive use, 2024 [2025]
- Research gaps in evidence-based contraception guidance: US Medical Eligibility Criteria for Contraceptive Use, 2024, and US Selected Practice Recommendations for Contraceptive Use, 2024 [2025]

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- Contraception

Guttmacher Institute
- United States Contraception

National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
- Contraception and Birth Control

Society of Family Planning
- Society of Family Planning Research Practice Support: Key considerations for contraceptive misinformation research [2026]
- Society of Family Planning Research Practice Support: Implementation strategies and considerations for conducting community-engaged sexual and reproductive health research [2026]
- Society of Family Planning Committee Statement: Contraceptive considerations for individuals with cancer and cancer survivors part 1 - Key considerations for clinical care Joint with the Society of Gynecologic Oncology [2025]
- Society of Family Planning Committee Statement: Contraception and body weight [2025]
- Society of Family Planning Clinical Recommendation: Contraceptive considerations for individuals with cancer and cancer survivors part 3 - Skin, blood, gastrointestinal, liver, lung, central nervous system, and other cancers: Joint with the Society of Gynecologic Oncology [2025]
- Society of Family Planning Clinical Recommendation: Contraceptive considerations for individuals with cancer and cancer survivors part 2 - Breast, ovarian, uterine, and cervical cancer: Joint with the Society of Gynecologic Oncology [2025]
- Society of family planning clinical recommendations: Contraception and abortion care for persons who use substances [2022]
- Cancer and contraception [2012]

World Health Organization
- Selected practice recommendations for contraceptive use, 4th ed [2025]
- Medical eligibility criteria for contraceptive use: web annex: development of updated recommendations and Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation (GRADE) tables [2025]
- Medical eligibility criteria for contraceptive use, sixth edition [2025]
- Family planning and comprehensive abortion care toolkit for the primary health care workforce: volume 2 [2022]
- Family planning and comprehensive abortion care toolkit for the primary health care workforce: volume 1 [2022]
- Family Planning: A Global Handbook for Providers (2022 update) [2022]
- Digital Adaptation Kit for Family Planning: Operational requirements for implementing WHO recommendations in digital systems [2021]
- Coronavirus disease (COVID-19): Contraception and family planning [2020]
- Contraception: Evidence brief [2019]
- Implementation Guide for the Medical Eligibility Criteria and Selected Practice Recommendations for Contraceptive Use Guidelines [2018]
- Family planning: A Global Handbook for Providers: 2018 revision [2018]
- WHO medical eligibility criteria update [2016]
- Selected practice recommendations for contraceptive use - Third edition 2016 [2016]
- Moving towards the goals of FP2020 — classifying contraceptives [2016]
- Medical eligibility criteria wheel for contraceptive use [2015]
- Medical eligibility criteria for contraceptive use [2015]
- Family planning versus contraception: what's in a name? [2014]
- The effects of contraception on obstetric outcomes [2004]
- National clinical practice guidelines on family planning/contraception updated using the latest WHO guidelines on contraceptive use
- Family planning/contraception methods: Fact sheet
- Family Planning/Contraception
- Contraception

United Nations Population Fund
- Family Planning Guidelines for Zimbabwe [2018]

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Topic
- Sterilization
- Postpartum and postabortion contraception
- Oral contraceptives
- Natural family planning
- Male contraception, men and family planning
- Long-acting reversible contraception
- Intrauterine device (IUD)
- Injectable contraceptives
- Induced abortion
- Hormonal contraception
- Family planning services
- Emergency contraception
- Contraceptive implants
- Contraception use, contraceptive prevalence
- Barrier contraceptive methods
- Adolescent pregnancy
- Adolescent contraception