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Family planning, contraception

Australia

• 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]

Canada

• 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]

China

• 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]

France

• Journal of Gynecology Obstetrics and Human Reproduction
  • Clinical practice guidelines for contraception by the French National College of Gynecologists and Obstetricians (CNGOF) [2019]

India

• Ministry of Health and Family Welfare India
  • Family Planning Guidance Booklet for Community Health Officers (CHOs) [2023]
  • Family Planning Guidelines
  • Family Planning

International

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

• Contraception
  • 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]

• 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]

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

Italy

• 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]

New Zealand

• 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]

South Africa

• 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]

Tunisia

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

United Kingdom

• Faculty of Sexual & Reproductive Healthcare
  • UK Medical Eligibility Criteria for Contraceptive Use (UKMEC)
  • Quick Starting Contraception
  • Management of SRH Issues
  • Contraception for Specific Populations
  • Clinical Standards
  • Association of Contraception with Medical Conditions

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

United States

• 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]
  • Access to Contraception [2015]

• 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]

• Endotext
  • 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 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]

WHO

• World Health Organization
  • 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]
  • Family planning/contraception methods: Fact sheet
  • Family Planning/Contraception
  • Contraception

Zimbabwe

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

{Related topics}

• 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