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Afghanistan

• BMC Women's Health
  • Uptake and predictors of contraceptive use in Afghan women [2015]

Africa

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

• WHO Regional Office for Africa
  • Family planning health profiles - 2019 [2020]

Australia

• Australian Family Physician
  • The management of irregular bleeding in women using contraception [2017]
  • Perimenopausal contraception: A practice-based approach [2017]
  • LARCs as first-line contraception – What can general practitioners advise young women? [2017]
  • Contraception: LARCs first? [2017]
  • Catching up on contraception [2009]

• National Health and Medical Research Council
  • Contraceptive method considerations for individuals with active COVID-19 infection: a consensus statement [2020]

Canada

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

• 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]

Eastern Africa

• PLoS ONE
  • Pooled prevalence and determinants of modern contraceptive utilization in East Africa: A Multi-country Analysis of recent Demographic and Health Surveys [2021]

Ethiopia

• BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
  • Prevalence and determinants of unintended childbirth in Ethiopia [2014]

• Contraception and Reproductive Medicine
  • Unmet need for family planning in Ethiopia and its association with occupational status of women and discussion to her partner: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2020]

• Global Health Action
  • Trends in contraceptive use and distribution of births with demographic risk factors in Ethiopia: a sub-national analysis [2015]

• PLoS ONE
  • Short birth spacing and its association with maternal educational status, contraceptive use, and duration of breastfeeding in Ethiopia. A systematic review and meta-analysis [2021]

• Reproductive Health
  • Practice and Intention to use long acting and permanent contraceptive methods among married women in Ethiopia: Systematic meta-analysis [2016]

Ethiopia, Senegal

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

Europe

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

France

• BMC Women's Health
  • A rise in births following contraceptive failure in France between 2010 and 2016: results from the French national perinatal surveys [2021]

International

• Bulletin of the World Health Organization
  • Family planning and the post-2015 development agenda [2014]
  • A global research agenda for family planning: results of an exercise for setting research priorities [2014]

• Contraception
  • Research gaps identified during the 2014 update of the WHO medical eligibility criteria for contraceptive use and selected practice recommendations for contraceptive use [2015]

• Demographic and Health Surveys
  • Family Planning

• International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics
  • COVID-19 Contraception and Family Planning [2020]

• Training Resource Package for Family Planning
  • Training Resource Package for Family Planning

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

• United Nations Population Division - Department of Economic and Social Affairs
  • Family Planning

Iran

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

Jordan

• Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal
  • Are users of modern and traditional contraceptive methods in Jordan different? [2018]

Kenya

• Reproductive Health
  • Modern contraceptive use among migrant and non-migrant women in Kenya [2016]

Latin America and the Caribbean

• Lancet Global Health
  • Contraceptive use in Latin America and the Caribbean with a focus on long-acting reversible contraceptives: prevalence and inequalities in 23 countries [2019]

Low and middle-income countries

• Reproductive Health
  • Socio-demographic and economic inequalities in modern contraception in 11 low- and middle-income countries: an analysis of the PMA2020 surveys [2020]

Moldova

• BMJ Open
  • Contraceptive confidence and timing of first birth in Moldova: an event history analysis of retrospective data [2014]

Nepal

• World Bank
  • Family Planning : The Hidden Need of Married Adolescents in Nepal [2015]

New Zealand

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

Nigeria

• BMC Public Health
  • Access to mass media messages, and use of family planning in Nigeria: a spatio-demographic analysis from the 2013 DHS [2016]

• BMJ Open
  • Survival analysis of time to uptake of modern contraceptives among sexually active women of reproductive age in Nigeria [2015]

• Global Health Action
  • Contraceptive use and distribution of high-risk births in Nigeria: a sub-national analysis [2015]

• International Journal of Women's Health
  • Sexual autonomy and contraceptive use among women in Nigeria: findings from the Demographic and Health Survey data [2017]

Philippines

• Department of Health Philippines
  • The Philippine Clinical Standards Manual on Family Planning, 2014 Edition [2014]

Senegal

• BMC Public Health
  • Modern contraceptive utilization and its associated factors among married women in Senegal: a multilevel analysis [2021]

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]

• Journal of Global Health
  • Association of collective attitudes and contraceptive practice in nine sub-Saharan African countries [2020]

• Lancet Global Health
  • Trends in contraceptive prevalence rates in sub-Saharan Africa since the 2012 London Summit on Family Planning: results from repeated cross-sectional surveys [2019]

• Reproductive Health
  • Towards achieving the family planning targets in the African region: a rapid review of task sharing policies [2021]
  • Women empowerment as an enabling factor of contraceptive use in sub-Saharan Africa: a multilevel analysis of cross-sectional surveys of 32 countries [2018]

United Kingdom

• BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
  • Use of prescription contraceptive methods in the UK general population: a primary care study [2014]

• Faculty of Sexual & Reproductive Healthcare
  • Overweight, Obesity and Contraception - April 2019 [2019]
  • FSRH CEU Statement: Contraception and Weight Gain (August 2019) [2019]
  • Quick Starting Contraception - April 2017 [2017]
  • Contraception for Women Aged over 40 Years (August 2017) [2017]
  • UK Medical Eligibility Criteria for Contraceptive Use (UKMEC) [2016]
  • Contraceptive Choices for Women with Cardiac Disease [2014]
  • COVID-19 Resources and Information for SRH Professionals

• National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
  • Long-acting reversible contraception [2019]
  • Contraception [2016]
  • Contraception

United States of America

• American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
  • Opposition to Coercive Contraception Practices and Policies [2019]
  • Clinical Challenges of Long-Acting Reversible Contraceptive Methods [2016]
  • Increasing Access to Contraceptive Implants and Intrauterine Devices to Reduce Unintended Pregnancy [2015]
  • Access to Contraception [2015]

• American Society for Reproductive Medicine
  • Contraception

• Center for Reproductive Rights
  • Contraception

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • Contraceptive Use Among Women at Risk for Unintended Pregnancy in the Context of Public Health Emergencies — United States, 2016 [2018]
  • U.S. Selected Practice Recommendations for Contraceptive Use, 2016 [2016]
  • U.S. Medical Eligibility Criteria for Contraceptive Use, 2016 [2016]
  • Current Contraceptive Use and Variation by Selected Characteristics Among Women Aged 15-44: United States, 2011-2013 [2015]
  • U.S. Selected Practice Recommendations for Contraceptive Use, 2013: Adapted from the World Health Organization Selected Practice Recommendations for Contraceptive Use, 2nd Edition [2013]
  • Contraceptive Methods Available to Patients of Office-Based Physicians and Title X Clinics --- United States, 2009--2010 [2011]
  • Contraceptive Use
  • Contraception

• Guttmacher Institute
  • United States Contraception

• Michigan Quality Improvement Consortium
  • Prevention of unintended pregnancy in adults 18 years and older [2019]

• Preventive Medicine
  • Counseling and provision of long-acting reversible contraception in the US: National survey of nurse practitioners [2013]

• Society of Family Planning
  • Cancer and contraception [2012]
  • Contraceptive considerations in obese women [2009]

Vanuatu

• Reproductive Health
  • The case for investing in family planning in the Pacific: costs and benefits of reducing unmet need for contraception in Vanuatu and the Solomon Islands [2013]

Vietnam

• Global Health Action
  • Use of modern contraceptives among married women in Vietnam: a multilevel analysis using the Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (2011) and the Vietnam Population and Housing Census (2009) [2016]

WHO

• World Health Organization
  • Coronavirus disease (COVID-19): Contraception and family planning [2020]
  • Contraception: Evidence brief [2019]
  • Toolkit for the Implementation Guide for the Medical Eligibility Criteria and Selected Practice Recommendations for Contraceptive Use Guidelines [2018]
  • 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]
  • Expanding contraceptive choice [2017]
  • 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 - Fifth edition, 2015 [2015]
  • Family planning versus contraception: what's in a name? [2014]
  • Report of a technical consultation on birth spacing [2005]
  • The effects of contraception on obstetric outcomes [2004]
  • Family planning/contraception methods: Fact sheet
  • Contraception

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