Obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive medicine guidelines

Family planning

Guidelines, reviews, statements, recommendations, standards

 

Barrier contraceptive methods

• Cameroon
  • Demographic and Health Surveys
    • Social and Individual Factors Associated with Condom Use among Single Youths: An Analysis of the 2018 Cameroon Demographic and Health Survey [2020]
• Canada
  • Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
    • Canadian Contraception Consensus Chapter 5 Barrier Methods [2015]
• India
  • Indian Journal of Medical Research
    • Acceptability of male condom: An Indian scenario [2014]
• Low and middle income countries
  • Global Public Health
    • The impact of psychosocial interventions on condom and contraceptive use in LMICs: Meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials [2020]
• South Africa
  • Sexual Health
    • Progress and challenges to male and female condom use in South Africa [2012]
• United Kingdom
  • Faculty of Sexual & Reproductive Healthcare
    • Barrier methods for contraception and STI prevention [2015]
• United States of America
  • American Academy of Pediatrics
    • Barrier Protection Use by Adolescents During Sexual Activity [2020]
    • Condom Use by Adolescents [2013]
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    • Condom and Contraceptive Use Among Sexually Active High School Students — Youth Risk Behavior Survey, United States, 2019 [2020]
    • Condom Effectiveness
  • Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine
    • Condom Availability in Schools: A Practical Approach to the Prevention of Sexually Transmitted Infection/HIV and Unintended Pregnancy [2017]
• WHO
  • World Health Organization
    • WHO/UNFPA female condom generic specification [2012]
    • 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 female condom: a guide for planning and programming [2000]
    • Condoms
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  • Guidelines
    • Family planning, contraception

Contraceptive implants

• Australia
  • Australian Family Physician
    • Implanon NXT: Expert tips for best-practice insertion and removal [2017]
• Brazil
  • Ciência & Saúde Coletiva
    • The brief life of Norplant® in Brazil: controversies and reassemblages between science, society and State [2017]
• Canada
  • Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health
    • Pharmacoeconomic Report: Etonogestrel Extended-Release Subdermal Implant (Nexplanon) [2020]
    • Clinical Review Report: Etonogestrel Extended-Release Subdermal Implant (Nexplanon) [2020]
    • CADTH Canadian Drug Expert Committee Recommendation: Etonogestrel Extended-Release Subdermal Implant (Nexplanon — Merck Canada Inc.) [2020]
• International
  • Global Health: Science and Practice
    • Extended Effectiveness of the Etonogestrel-Releasing Contraceptive Implant and the 20 µg Levonorgestrel-Releasing Intrauterine System for 2 Years Beyond U.S. Food and Drug Administration Product Labeling [2017]
  • Human Reproduction
    • Extended use up to 5 years of the etonogestrel-releasing subdermal contraceptive implant: comparison to levonorgestrel-releasing subdermal implant [2016]
• United Kingdom
  • Faculty of Sexual & Reproductive Healthcare
    • Progestogen-only Implant [2021]
    • Intravascular insertion of Nexplanon [2016]
  • Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
    • Nexplanon (etonogestrel) contraceptive implants: new insertion site to reduce rare risk of neurovascular injury and implant migration [2020]
    • Nexplanon (etonogestrel) contraceptive implants: reports of device in vasculature and lung [2016]
• WHO
  • World Health Organization
    • WHO statement on Progestogen-only implants [2015]
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  • Guidelines
    • Hormonal contraception
    • Family planning, contraception

Emergency contraception

• Australia
  • Australian Family Physician
    • Ulipristal acetate: An update for Australian GPs [2017]
    • Emergency contraception: Oral and intrauterine options [2017]
  • National Health and Medical Research Council
    • Provision of emergency contraception: a consensus statement [2020]
• Canada
  • Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
    • Canadian Contraception Consensus Chapter 3 Emergency Contraception [2015]
• Europe
  • European Consortium for Emergency Contraception
    • Publications
  • European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology
    • Emergency contraception. Widely available and effective but disappointing as a public health intervention: a review [2015]
• Germany
  • Pharmacy Practice
    • Non-prescription dispensing of emergency oral contraceptives: Recommendations from the German Federal Chamber of Pharmacists [Bundesapothekerkammer] [2016]
• International
  • Contraception
    • Effect of BMI and body weight on pregnancy rates with LNG as emergency contraception: analysis of four WHO HRP studies [2016]
  • International Consortium for Emergency Contraception
    • Publications
  • International Planned Parenthood Federation
    • IMAP Statement on emergency contraception [2018]
• Low and middle income countries
  • BMC Health Services Research
    • Workforce interventions to improve access to emergency contraception pills: a systematic review of current evidence in low- and middle-income countries and recommendations for improving performance [2015]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Improving Access to Emergency Contraception Pills through Strengthening Service Delivery and Demand Generation: A Systematic Review of Current Evidence in Low and Middle-Income Countries [2014]
• Nepal
  • Reproductive Health
    • A new wave in the quiet revolution in contraceptive use in Nepal: the rise of emergency contraception [2016]
• United Kingdom
  • Faculty of Sexual & Reproductive Healthcare
    • Emergency contraception [2020]
    • FSRH Emergency Contraception National Benchmarking Audit: Final Report [2018]
  • Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
    • Levonorgestrel-containing emergency hormonal contraception: advice on interactions with hepatic enzyme inducers and contraceptive efficacy [2016]
• United States of America
  • American Academy of Pediatrics
    • Emergency Contraception [2019]
  • American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
    • Access to Emergency Contraception [2017]
  • American Society for Emergency Contraception
    • Projects
  • Contraception
    • Emergency Contraception: A multi-specialty survey of clinician knowledge and practices [2015]
  • Guttmacher Institute
    • Emergency Contraception [2017]
  • Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine
    • Emergency Contraception for Adolescents and Young Adults: Guidance for Health Care Professionals [2016]
• WHO
  • World Health Organization
    • Fact sheet on the safety of levonorgestrel-alone emergency contraceptive pills (LNG ECPs) [2010]
    • Emergency contraception: Fact sheet
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Oral contraceptives
    • Hormonal contraception
    • Family planning, contraception

Family planning services

• Afghanistan
  • Nagoya Journal of Medical Science
    • Factors influencing contraceptive use among women in Afghanistan: secondary analysis of Afghanistan Health Survey 2012 [2016]
• Africa
  • PLoS ONE
    • Factors Determining Quality of Care in Family Planning Services in Africa: A Systematic Review of Mixed Evidence [2016]
  • WHO Regional Office for Africa
    • A Guide to Identifying and Documenting Best Practices in Family Planning Programmes [2017]
• Australia
  • National Health and Medical Research Council
    • Coalition consensus statement on the provision of long-acting reversible contraception during the COVID-19 pandemic [2020]
• Brazil
  • Revista de Saúde Pública
    • Use of and access to oral and injectable contraceptives in Brazil [2016]
• Cambodia
  • WHO Western Pacific Region
    • Cambodia: identifying actions for scaling up long-acting reversible contraceptives [2017]
• Canada
  • Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
    • Coercion Free Contraceptive Care [2021]
    • Canadian Contraception Consensus Chapter 2 Contraceptive Care and Access [2015]
    • Canadian Contraception Consensus Chapter 1 Contraception in Canada [2015]
• Democratic Republic of Congo
  • Global Health: Science and Practice
    • Availability and Quality of Family Planning Services in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: High Potential for Improvement [2017]
    • Family Planning Policy Environment in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: Levers of Positive Change and Prospects for Sustainability [2015]
• Developing countries
  • World Health Organization
    • Accelerating uptake of voluntary, rights-based family planning in developing countries [2017]
• Eastern Europe, Eurasia
  • U.S. Agency for International Development
    • Family Planning in Eastern Europe and Eurasia: A Legacy of Change [2013]
• Eastern Mediterranean
  • Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal
    • A review of family planning policies and services in WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region Member States [2019]
  • WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean
    • Summary report on the training workshop on strengthening family planning services through evidence-based guidelines and best practices, Tunis, Tunisia 13–16 November 2016 [2016]
• Egypt
  • World Health Organization
    • Impact of provider incentive payments on reproductive health services in Egypt : policy brief [2009]
• Ethiopia
  • Archives of Public Health
    • Predictors of unmet need for family planning in Ethiopia 2019: a systematic review and meta analysis [2020]
  • International Journal for Equity in Health
    • Paving the way for universal family planning coverage in Ethiopia: an analysis of wealth related inequality [2015]
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
    • Structural Quality of Services and Use of Family Planning Services in Primary Health Care Facilities in Ethiopia. How Do Public and Private Facilities Compare? [2020]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Client and facility level determinants of quality of care in family planning services in Ethiopia: Multilevel modelling [2017]
    • Trends of Modern Contraceptive Use among Young Married Women Based on the 2000, 2005, and 2011 Ethiopian Demographic and Health Surveys: A Multivariate Decomposition Analysis [2015]
• India
  • Indian Journal of Medical Research
    • Priority strategies for India's family planning programme [2014]
  • Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research
    • Family Planning Practices, Programmes and Policies in India Including Implants and Injectables with a Special Focus on Jharkhand, India: A Brief Review [2015]
  • Lancet Global Health
    • Levels and trends in contraceptive prevalence, unmet need, and demand for family planning for 29 states and union territories in India: a modelling study using the Family Planning Estimation Tool [2017]
  • Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
    • Family Planning Logistics Management Information System (FP-LMIS): Training Manual and User Guide [2017]
• International
  • BMJ Sexual & Reproductive Health
    • A systematic review of the effectiveness of counselling strategies for modern contraceptive methods: what works and what doesn’t? [2019]
  • Global Health: Science and Practice
    • Provider Bias in Family Planning Services: A Review of Its Meaning and Manifestations [2019]
    • “New Users” Are Confusing Our Counting: Reaching Consensus on How to Measure “Additional Users” of Family Planning [2017]
  • International Planned Parenthood Federation
    • IMAP statement on expanding access and contraceptive choice through integrated sexual and reproductive health services [2019]
  • Lancet Global Health
    • Trends in sexual activity and demand for and use of modern contraceptive methods in 74 countries: a retrospective analysis of nationally representative surveys [2020]
  • Reproductive Health
    • Participatory approaches involving community and healthcare providers in family planning/contraceptive information and service provision: a scoping review [2016]
  • United Nations Population Fund
    • Global Sexual and Reproductive Health Package for Men and Adolescent Boys [2017]
• Iran
  • Iranian Journal of Nursing and Midwifery Research
    • The impact of an educational program based on BASNEF model on the selection of a contraceptive method in women [2015]
• Jordan
  • Demographic and Health Surveys
    • Further Analysis of Family Planning in Jordan (AB19) - Analysis Brief [2021]
    • Determinants of Modern Contraceptive Use in Jordan: Further Analysis of the Jordan Population and Family Health Survey 2017-18 [2020]
• Kenya
  • Contraception
    • Provider barriers to family planning access in urban Kenya [2015]
  • Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition
    • Evaluating the impact of social franchising on family planning use in Kenya [2016]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Community Dialogue to Shift Social Norms and Enable Family Planning: An Evaluation of the Family Planning Results Initiative in Kenya [2016]
• Low and middle income countries
  • BMC Public Health
    • Community based reproductive health interventions for young married couples in resource-constrained settings: a systematic review [2015]
  • BMC Women's Health
    • A scoping review on determinants of unmet need for family planning among women of reproductive age in low and middle income countries [2016]
  • BMJ Open
    • Incidence of unintended pregnancy among female sex workers in low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2018]
  • Demographic and Health Surveys
    • Contraceptive Use, Method Mix, and Method Availability: A Multilevel Analysis [2020]
  • European Journal of Contraception & Reproductive Health Care
    • Contraception supply chain challenges: a review of evidence from low- and middle-income countries [2017]
  • Global Health: Science and Practice
    • Effectiveness of mHealth Interventions for Improving Contraceptive Use in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review [2020]
  • Journal of Global Health
    • Time trends in demand for family planning satisfied: analysis of 73 countries using national health surveys over a 24-year period [2019]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Economic Evaluation of Family Planning Interventions in Low and Middle Income Countries; A Systematic Review [2016]
  • Reproductive Health
    • Demand for family planning satisfied with modern methods among sexually active women in low- and middle-income countries: who is lagging behind? [2018]
    • Optimizing the delivery of contraceptives in low- and middle-income countries through task shifting: a systematic review of effectiveness and safety [2015]
    • Behaviour change techniques and contraceptive use in low and middle income countries: a review [2015]
  • Tropical Medicine & International Health
    • Effectiveness of demand generation interventions on use of modern contraceptives in low- and middle-income countries [2016]
• Mexico
  • International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics
    • Comparison of family-planning service quality reported by adolescents and young adult women in Mexico [2016]
• Nepal
  • Center for Research on Environment Health and Population Activities
    • Adding It Up: Costs and Benefits of Meeting the Contraceptive and Maternal and Newborn Health Needs of Women in Nepal [2019]
  • Demographic and Health Surveys
    • Unmet Need for Family Planning and Fertility in Nepal: Levels, Trends, and Determinants [2019]
• Pacific Islands
  • PLoS ONE
    • Family planning in Pacific Island Countries and Territories (PICTs): A scoping review [2021]
• Pakistan
  • PLoS ONE
    • Socio-Economic Disparities in Use of Family Planning Methods among Pakistani Women: Findings from Pakistan Demographic and Health Surveys [2016]
  • Reproductive Health
    • Engaging with community-based public and private mid-level providers for promoting the use of modern contraceptive methods in rural Pakistan: results from two innovative birth spacing interventions [2016]
    • National program for family planning and primary health care Pakistan: a SWOT analysis [2013]
• Papua New Guinea
  • WHO Western Pacific Region
    • Papua New Guinea : actions for scaling up long-acting reversible contraception [2017]
• Philippines
  • Department of Health Philippines
    • Family Planning in the Hospital : Operational Guide in Recording and Reporting [2018]
  • World Health Organization
    • Performance-based grants for reproductive health in the Philippines: policy brief [2011]
• Rwanda
  • Global Health: Science and Practice
    • Systems approach to monitoring and evaluation guides scale up of the Standard Days Method of family planning in Rwanda [2014]
• Senegal
  • Contraception
    • The Senegal urban reproductive health initiative: a longitudinal program impact evaluation [2018]
  • Global Health: Science and Practice
    • Strengthening Government Leadership in Family Planning Programming in Senegal: From Proof of Concept to Proof of Implementation in 2 Districts [2016]
    • Mentoring, Task Sharing, and Community Outreach Through the TutoratPlus Approach: Increasing Use of Long-Acting Reversible Contraceptives in Senegal [2016]
  • Scientific Reports
    • Examining trends in family planning among harder-to-reach women in Senegal 1992–2014 [2017]
• Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Global Health: Science and Practice
    • Assessment of Family Planning Service Availability and Readiness in 10 African Countries [2018]
  • Journal of Adolescent Health
    • Who Meets the Contraceptive Needs of Young Women in Sub-Saharan Africa? [2017]
  • Reproductive Health
    • Design and initial implementation of the WHO FP umbrella project- to strengthen contraceptive services in the sub Saharan Africa [2017]
• Tanzania
  • Reproductive Health
    • Client satisfaction with family planning services in the area of high unmet need: evidence from Tanzania Service Provision Assessment Survey, 2014-2015 [2018]
• Tanzania, Uganda
  • Global Health: Science and Practice
    • Adaptation of the Training Resource Package to Strengthen Preservice Family Planning Training for Nurses and Midwives in Tanzania and Uganda [2018]
• Uganda
  • African Population Studies
    • Modern contraceptive use among women in Uganda: An analysis of trend and patterns (1995-2011) [2014]
  • Global Health: Science and Practice
    • Partnerships for Policy Development: A Case Study From Uganda’s Costed Implementation Plan for Family Planning [2016]
  • Guttmacher Institute
    • Contraception and Unintended Pregnancy in Uganda [2017]
• United Kingdom
  • National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
    • Contraceptive services for under 25s [2014]
    • Contraceptive services: general and other
  • NHS Digital
    • Sexual and Reproductive Health Services
  • Public Health England
    • E-sexual and reproductive healthcare: national framework
    • Contraceptive services: estimating the return on investment
• United States of America
  • American Journal of Public Health
    • Projecting the Unmet Need and Costs for Contraception Services After the Affordable Care Act [2016]
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    • Need for Contraceptive Services Among Women of Reproductive Age — 45 Jurisdictions, United States, 2017–2019 [2021]
    • Update: Providing Quality Family Planning Services — Recommendations from CDC and the U.S. Office of Population Affairs, 2017 [2017]
    • Providing Quality Family Planning Services: Recommendations of CDC and the U.S. Office of Population Affairs [2014]
  • JAMA - The Journal of the American Medical Association
    • Decreasing Unintended Pregnancy: Opportunities Created by the Affordable Care Act [2016]
  • Society of Family Planning
    • Society of Family Planning interim clinical recommendations: Contraceptive provision when healthcare access is restricted due to pandemic response [2020]
  • U.S. Department of Health and Human Services - Office of Population Affairs
    • Family Planning Annual Report
• WHO
  • World Health Organization
    • Task sharing to improve access to Family Planning/Contraception [2017]
    • Quality of care in contraceptive information and services, based on human rights standards [2017]
    • Partnering with the private sector to strengthen provision of contraception [2017]
    • Monitoring human rights in contraceptive services and programmes [2017]
    • Improving family planning service delivery in humanitarian crises [2017]
    • Ensuring contraceptive security through effective supply chains [2017]
    • Ensuring adequate financing of family planning commodities and services [2017]
    • A guide to identifying and documenting best practices in family planning programmes [2017]
    • Ensuring human rights within contraceptive service delivery [2015]
    • Framework for ensuring human rights in the provision of contraceptive information [2014]
    • Ensuring human rights within contraceptive programmes [2014]
    • Ensuring human rights in the provision of contraceptive information and services [2014]
    • Task shifting to improve access to contraceptive methods [2013]
    • 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]
    • Scaling up health service delivery: from pilot innovations to policies and programmes [2007]
    • Financing sexual and reproductive health-care services [2006]
    • Decision-making tool for family planning clients & providers [2005]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Family planning, contraception

Family planning, contraception

• Afghanistan
  • BMC Women's Health
    • Uptake and predictors of contraceptive use in Afghan women [2015]
• Africa
  • 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]
• Brazil
  • Ciência & Saúde Coletiva
    • Contraception use and family planning inequalities among Brazilian women [2021]
• Burundi
  • Demographic and Health Surveys
    • Fertility and Family Planning Characteristics of Contraceptive Clusters in Burundi [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]
• East 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]
• Indonesia
  • Demographic and Health Surveys
    • Determinants of Contraceptive Discontinuation in Indonesia: Further Analysis of the 2017 Demographic and Health Survey [2019]
• International
  • 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]
  • Population Council
    • Family Planning
  • SBCC Implementation Kits
    • Healthy Timing and Spacing of Pregnancies – Addressing Advanced Maternal Age and High Parity in Family Planning Programs Implementation Kit
  • U.S. Agency for International Development
    • Family Planning Resources
    • Family Planning
• Iran
  • Journal of Marriage and Family
    • Family Change and Continuity in Iran: Birth Control Use Before First Pregnancy [2009]
• Jordan
  • Demographic and Health Surveys
    • Jordan Family Planning Questions [2020]
    • Intention to Use Contraceptives in Jordan: Further Analysis of the Jordan Population and Family Health Survey 2017-18 [2020]
    • Fertility Preferences and Contraceptive Behaviors among Ever-married Women and Men: An Analysis of the 2017-18 Jordan Population and Family Health Survey [2020]
  • 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]
• Mali
  • Demographic and Health Surveys
    • Modern Contraceptive Use among Youth in Mali [2020]
• Moldova
  • BMJ Open
    • Contraceptive confidence and timing of first birth in Moldova: an event history analysis of retrospective data [2014]
• Myanmar
  • Demographic and Health Surveys
    • Factors that Affect the Discontinuation of Family Planning Methods in Myanmar: Analysis of the 2015-16 Myanmar Demographic and Health Survey [2019]
• 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]
• Pakistan
  • Demographic and Health Surveys
    • Trends, Differentials, and Determinants of Modern Contraceptive Use in Pakistan, 1990-2018 [2020]
• 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
    • UK Medical Eligibility Criteria for Contraceptive Use (UKMEC) [2019]
    • Overweight, Obesity and Contraception [2019]
    • FSRH CEU Statement: Contraception and Weight Gain [2019]
    • Quick Starting Contraception [2017]
    • Contraception for Women Aged over 40 Years [2017]
    • 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
  • Public Health Scotland
    • Long Acting Reversible Methods of Contraception (LARC) in Scotland
• 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
  • 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
    • 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]
    • 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]
    • The effects of contraception on obstetric outcomes [2004]
    • Family planning/contraception methods: Fact sheet
    • Family Planning/Contraception
    • Contraception
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • 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

Female sterilization, tubal ligation

• Canada
  • Health Quality Ontario
    • Hysteroscopic tubal sterilization: an evidence-based analysis [2013]
    • Hysteroscopic tubal sterilization: a health economic literature review [2013]
• India
  • International Journal of Applied and Basic Medical Research
    • Female sterilization failure: Review over a decade and its clinicopathological correlation [2014]
  • Journal of Obstetric Anaesthesia and Critical Care
    • The Association of Obstetric Anaesthesiologists guidelines for anaesthetic management of patients undergoing tubal ligation [2011]
  • Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of India
    • A Study on the Reversal of Sterilisation in Women Over Two Decades [2012]
  • Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
    • Reference Manual for Female Sterilization [2014]
• United Kingdom
  • National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
    • Hysteroscopic sterilisation by insertion of intrafallopian implants [2017]
  • Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
    • Female Sterilisation [2016]
• United States of America
  • American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
    • Access to Postpartum Sterilization [2021]
    • Sterilization of Women: Ethical Issues and Considerations [2017]
• WHO
  • World Health Organization
    • The safety of quinacrine when used as a method of non-surgical sterilization in women : interim statement [2009]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Sterilization

Hormonal contraception

• Canada
  • Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
    • Menstrual Suppression in Special Circumstances [2019]
    • Canadian Contraception Consensus Part 4 of 4 Chapter 9: Combined Hormonal Contraception [2017]
    • Canadian Contraception Consensus (Part 3 of 4): Chapter 8 – Progestin-Only Contraception [2016]
• Canada, United States of America, United Kingdom
  • CMAJ Open
    • Regulatory approval time for hormonal contraception in Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom, 2000-2015: a retrospective data analysis [2016]
• Europe
  • Journal of Headache and Pain
    • Hormonal contraceptives and risk of ischemic stroke in women with migraine: a consensus statement from the European Headache Federation (EHF) and the European Society of Contraception and Reproductive Health (ESC) [2017]
• International
  • Contraception
    • Combined hormonal contraceptive use among women with known dyslipidemias: a systematic review of critical safety outcomes [2015]
• Ireland
  • British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology
    • Hormonal contraceptive use in Ireland: trends and co-prescribing practices [2015]
• Low and middle income countries
  • PLoS ONE
    • Vaginal ring acceptability and related preferences among women in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review and narrative synthesis [2019]
• United Kingdom
  • Faculty of Sexual & Reproductive Healthcare
    • FSRH CEU Guidance: Recommended Actions after incorrect Use of Combined Hormonal Contraception (e.g. late or missed pills, ring and patch) [2021]
    • Combined Hormonal Contraception [2020]
    • Drug interactions with hormonal contraception [2017]
    • Problematic Bleeding with Hormonal Contraception [2015]
• United States of America
  • American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
    • Over-the-Counter Access to Hormonal Contraception [2019]
  • American Society for Reproductive Medicine
    • Combined hormonal contraception and the risk of venous thromboembolism: a guideline [2017]
• WHO
  • World Health Organization
    • WHO issues statements on use of reversible hormonal contraception [2015]
    • WHO statement on hormonal contraception and bone health [2005]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Oral contraceptives
    • Male contraception, men and family planning
    • Intrauterine device (IUD)
    • Injectable contraceptives
    • Family planning, contraception
    • Emergency contraception
    • Contraceptive implants

Induced abortion

• Africa
  • WHO Regional Office for Africa
    • WHO African Region's Countries Abortion Health Profiles [2020]
• Australia
  • Department of Health Northern Territory Government
    • Northern Territory Clinical Guidelines for Termination of Pregnancy [2019]
  • National Health and Medical Research Council
    • Using telehealth to provide early medical abortion during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond: a consensus statement [2020]
    • Nurse and midwife-led provision of mifepristone and misoprostol for the purposes of early medical abortion: a consensus statement [2020]
    • Evidence-based practice and policy recommendations regarding early medical abortion: a consensus statement [2020]
    • A consensus statement on publicly funded abortion service provision: a duty of care [2020]
  • O&G Magazine
    • The tyranny of distance for Australian women seeking abortion [2018]
    • Mid-trimester surgical abortion [2018]
    • Feticide and late termination of pregnancy [2018]
  • Queensland Clinical Guidelines
    • Termination of pregnancy
  • WA Health, Government of Western Australia
    • Reports on induced abortions in Western Australia
• Australia, New Zealand
  • O&G Magazine
    • Early medical abortion: reflections on current practice [2018]
• Canada
  • Alberta Health Services
    • Termination of Pregnancy [2017]
  • Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health
    • Routine Pathology for Intrauterine Devices and Therapeutic Abortion: A Review of Clinical Effectiveness, Cost-Effectiveness, and Guidelines [2019]
  • Canadian Family Physician
    • Abortion remains absent from family medicine training in Canada [2018]
    • First-trimester medical abortion practices in Canada: National survey [2016]
    • Abortion health services in Canada: Results of a 2012 national survey [2016]
  • Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
    • Induced Abortion: Surgical Abortion and Second Trimester Medical Methods [2018]
    • Medical Abortion [2016]
• China
  • Advances in Therapy
    • Post Abortion Care and Management After Induced Abortion During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Chinese Expert Consensus [2021]
  • BMC Health Services Research
    • Unintended pregnancy and induced abortion among unmarried women in China: a systematic review [2004]
• Côte d'Ivoire
  • PLoS ONE
    • Induced abortion incidence and safety in Côte d’Ivoire [2020]
• Developing countries
  • BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
    • Facility-based treatment for medical complications resulting from unsafe pregnancy termination in the developing world, 2012: a review of evidence from 26 countries [2016]
• Estonia
  • BMC Women's Health
    • Abortion trends from 1996 to 2011 in Estonia: special emphasis on repeat abortion [2014]
• Europe
  • European Journal of Public Health
    • Austerity and Abortion in the European Union [2016]
  • WHO Regional Office for Europe
    • Improving access to safe abortion care and related reproductive health services in the European Region [2012]
• Finland
  • PLoS ONE
    • Perinatal outcomes after induced termination of pregnancy by methods: A nationwide register-based study of first births in Finland 1996–2013 [2017]
• Honduras
  • International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics
    • Changes in the use of manual vacuum aspiration for postabortion care within the public healthcare service network in Honduras [2014]
• India
  • Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters
    • The case for the use of telehealth for abortion in India [2021]
• International
  • International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics
    • Abortion Access and Safety with COVID-19 [2020]
    • FIGO Committee Statement: Ethical responsibilities in post-abortion care [2019]
  • International Planned Parenthood Federation
    • IMAP Statement Abortion Self-Care [2021]
    • IMAP statement on medical abortion [2018]
  • Lancet
    • Global, regional, and subregional classification of abortions by safety, 2010–14: estimates from a Bayesian hierarchical model [2017]
  • Lancet Global Health
    • Unintended pregnancy and abortion by income, region, and the legal status of abortion: estimates from a comprehensive model for 1990–2019 [2020]
  • Population Council
    • Safe Abortion and Postabortion Care
  • Reproductive Health
    • Measuring abortion-related mortality: challenges and opportunities [2015]
• Iran
  • Archives of Iranian Medicine
    • Induced abortion rate in Iran: a meta-analysis [2013]
• Kenya
  • BMC Public Health
    • Factors associated with repeat induced abortion in Kenya [2015]
• Kyrgyzstan
  • Contraception
    • Provision of medical abortion by midlevel healthcare providers in Kyrgyzstan: testing an intervention to expand safe abortion services to underserved rural and periurban areas [2018]
• Latin America
  • Cadernos de Saúde Pública
    • Abortion and the COVID-19 pandemic: insights for Latin America Abortion and the COVID-19 pandemic: insights for Latin America [2021]
• Malawi
  • BMC Health Services Research
    • Costs of postabortion care in public sector health facilities in Malawi: a cross-sectional survey [2015]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Decrease in Use of Manual Vacuum Aspiration in Postabortion Care in Malawi: A Cross-Sectional Study from Three Public Hospitals, 2008–2012 [2014]
• Nepal
  • Center for Research on Environment Health and Population Activities
    • Abortion and Unintended Pregnancy in Nepal [2017]
    • 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]
• Nigeria
  • PLoS ONE
    • Trends in misoprostol use and abortion complications: A cross-sectional study from nine referral hospitals in Nigeria [2018]
• Norway
  • International Journal of Epidemiology
    • Implementing medical abortion with mifepristone and misoprostol in Norway 1998–2013 [2016]
• Pakistan
  • Studies in Family Planning
    • Induced Abortions and Unintended Pregnancies in Pakistan [2014]
• South Africa
  • World Health Organization
    • What health-care providers say on providing abortion care in Cape Town, South Africa: findings from a qualitative study: social science policy brief [2010]
• Sub-Saharan Africa
  • BMC Public Health
    • Health care providers’ perceptions of and attitudes towards induced abortions in sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia: a systematic literature review of qualitative and quantitative data [2015]
• Switzerland
  • Swiss Medical Weekly
    • Overlapping borders: limit of viability and late terminations of pregnancy – a retrospective multicentre observational study [2020]
• Tanzania
  • PLoS ONE
    • Incidence of Induced Abortion and Post-Abortion Care in Tanzania [2015]
• Thailand
  • Reproductive Health
    • A survey of manual vacuum aspiration’s experiences among the new medical graduates in Thailand [2013]
• Uganda
  • BMC Public Health
    • Estimating the Costs of Induced Abortion in Uganda: A Model-Based Analysis [2011]
  • PLoS ONE
    • Incidence of Induced Abortion in Uganda, 2013: New Estimates Since 2003 [2016]
• United Kingdom
  • Department of Health and Social Care
    • Abortion statistics: protocols on disclosing personal data
    • Abortion statistics, England and Wales
  • Faculty of Sexual & Reproductive Healthcare
    • RCOG and FSRH statement on women in England being able to take misoprostol at home [2018]
  • National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
    • Abortion care (Quality standard) [2021]
    • Abortion care [2019]
  • NHS England
    • Provision of NHS termination of pregnancy centres for patients presenting with medical complexity and/or significant co-morbidities requiring NHS treatment [2021]
  • Public Health Scotland
    • Termination of pregnancy statistics
    • Termination of Pregnancy in Scotland - Datasets
    • COVID-19 Wider Impacts – Termination of Pregnancy
  • Royal College of Nursing
    • Termination of Pregnancy: An RCN nursing framework [2020]
  • Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
    • Coronavirus (COVID-19) infection and abortion care [2020]
    • Clinical Guidelines for Early Medical Abortion at Home [2019]
    • Comprehensive Postabortion Care [2016]
    • Comprehensive abortion care [2015]
    • The Care of Women Requesting Induced Abortion [2011]
• United States of America, Canada
  • PLoS ONE
    • First trimester medication abortion practice in the United States and Canada [2017]
• United States of America
  • American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
    • Medication Abortion Up to 70 Days of Gestation [2020]
    • Abortion Training and Education [2014]
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    • Abortion Surveillance — United States, 2018 [2020]
    • Abortion | Data and Statistics
  • Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine
    • Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine Special Statement: Maternal-fetal medicine subspecialist survey on abortion training and service provision [2021]
  • Society of Family Planning
    • Society of Family Planning clinical recommendations: Management of individuals with bleeding or thrombotic disorders undergoing abortion [2021]
    • Society of Family Planning clinical recommendations: Cervical preparation for dilation and evacuation at 20–24 weeks’ gestation [2020]
    • Medication Abortion Up to 70 Days of Gestation [2020]
    • Society of Family Planning clinical guidelines: pain control in surgical abortion part 1 — local anesthesia and minimal sedation [2018]
    • Medical abortion reporting of efficacy: the MARE guidelines [2016]
    • Cervical dilation before first-trimester surgical abortion (<14 weeks' gestation) [2016]
    • Medical management of first-trimester abortion [2014]
    • Cervical preparation for second-trimester surgical abortion prior to 20 weeks' gestation [2014]
    • Surgical abortion prior to 7 weeks of gestation [2013]
    • Management of postabortion hemorrhage [2013]
    • Interruption of nonviable pregnancies of 24–28 weeks' gestation using medical methods [2013]
    • First-trimester abortion in women with medical conditions [2012]
    • Prevention of infection after induced abortion [2011]
    • Labor induction abortion in the second trimester [2011]
    • Induction of fetal demise before abortion [2010]
    • Cervical preparation for surgical abortion from 20 to 24 weeks’ gestation [2008]
• WHO
  • World Health Organization
    • Self-management of medical abortion [2020]
    • Preventing unsafe abortion: Evidence brief [2019]
    • Medical management of abortion [2018]
    • Expanding health worker roles for safe abortion in the first trimester of pregnancy [2016]
    • Health worker roles in providing safe abortion care and post-abortion contraception [2015]
    • Overview of abortion cases with severe maternal outcomes in the WHO Multicountry Survey on Maternal and Newborn Health: a descriptive analysis [2014]
    • Clinical practice handbook for safe abortion [2014]
    • The World Health Organization’s Safe Abortion Guidance Document [2013]
    • 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]
    • 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]
    • Preventing unsafe abortion: Fact sheet
    • Health worker roles in providing safe abortion care and post-abortion contraception - Interactive website
    • Abortion
• Zambia
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Signal functions for measuring the ability of health facilities to provide abortion services: an illustrative analysis using a health facility census in Zambia [2016]
• Zimbabwe
  • BMJ Open
    • Severity and management of postabortion complications among women in Zimbabwe, 2016: a cross-sectional study [2018]
• {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

• Guatemala
  • World Health Organization
    • Community-based providers in rural Guatemala can provide the injectable contraceptive DMPA safely : Social science policy brief [2009]
• India
  • Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
    • Supplement for Medroxy Progesterone Acetate-Subcutaneous Injectable Contraceptive (MPA-SC) [2016]
    • Reference Manual for Injectable Contraceptive (DMPA) [2016]
• International
  • BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
    • Self-administration of injectable contraceptives: a systematic review [2016]
  • Contraception
    • The safety of subcutaneously administered depot medroxyprogesterone acetate (104mg/0.65mL): A systematic review [2016]
• Kenya, Rwanda
  • Global Health: Science and Practice
    • Policy and programmatic considerations for introducing a longer-acting injectable contraceptive: perspectives of stakeholders from Kenya and Rwanda [2014]
• Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Contraception: X
    • Trends in subcutaneous depot medroxyprogesterone acetate (DMPA-SC) use in Burkina Faso, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda [2020]
• United Kingdom
  • Faculty of Sexual & Reproductive Healthcare
    • Progestogen-only Injectable Contraception [2020]
  • National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
    • Long-acting reversible contraception: subcutaneous depot medroxyprogesterone acetate (DMPA-SC) [2014]
• United States of America
  • American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
    • Depot Medroxyprogesterone Acetate and Bone Effects [2014]
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    • Update to U.S. Selected Practice Recommendations for Contraceptive Use: Self-Administration of Subcutaneous Depot Medroxyprogesterone Acetate [2021]
  • Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine
    • Depot Medroxyprogesterone Acetate and Bone Mineral Density in Adolescents—The Black Box Warning: A Position Paper of the Society for Adolescent Medicine [2006]
• WHO
  • World Health Organization
    • Self-administration of injectable contraception [2020]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Hormonal contraception
    • Family planning, contraception

Intrauterine device (IUD)

• Australia
  • Australian Family Physician
    • GPs’ perspectives on prescribing intrauterine contraceptive devices [2017]
  • BMC Women's Health
    • The levonorgestrel intrauterine device in Australia: analysis of prescribing data 2008–2012 [2018]
  • Royal Australian College of General Practitioners
    • Intrauterine devices/systems – Resources for general practice [2020]
• Canada
  • Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
    • Canadian Contraception Consensus (Part 3 of 4): Chapter 7 – Intrauterine Contraception [2016]
    • Best Practices to Minimize Risk of Infection With Intrauterine Device Insertion [2014]
• Ethiopia
  • Global Health: Science and Practice
    • Expanding Access to the Intrauterine Device in Public Health Facilities in Ethiopia: A Mixed-Methods Study [2016]
• Europe
  • European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology
    • Intrauterine devices and intrauterine systems [2008]
• India
  • Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
    • Reference Manual for IUCD Services [2018]
    • IUCD Reference Manual for AYUSH Doctors [2014]
    • IUCD Reference Manual for Medical Officers and Nursing Personnel [2013]
• International
  • Contraception
    • Worldwide use of intrauterine contraception: a review [2014]
  • Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care
    • Practical advice for avoidance of pain associated with insertion of intrauterine contraceptives [2013]
  • Reproductive Health
    • Provider and lay perspectives on intra-uterine contraception: a global review [2017]
• Iran
  • Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care
    • Intrauterine device survival in Iranian women: systematic review and meta-analysis [2015]
• Kenya
  • Global Health: Science and Practice
    • Expanding Access to a New, More Affordable Levonorgestrel Intrauterine System in Kenya: Service Delivery Costs Compared With Other Contraceptive Methods and Perspectives of Key Opinion Leaders [2016]
    • Introduction of the levonorgestrel intrauterine system in Kenya through mobile outreach: review of service statistics and provider perspectives [2014]
• Low and middle income countries
  • BMC Public Health
    • Expanding choice and access in contraception: an assessment of intrauterine contraception policies in low and middle-income countries [2019]
  • Contraception
    • The promotion of intrauterine contraception in low- and middle-income countries: a narrative review [2017]
• Nepal
  • BMC Health Services Research
    • Knowledge and perceptions of the intrauterine device among family planning providers in Nepal: a cross-sectional analysis by cadre and sector [2015]
• United Kingdom
  • Faculty of Sexual & Reproductive Healthcare
    • Intrauterine Contraception [2019]
    • Management of women taking anticoagulants or antiplatelet medications who request intrauterine contraception or subdermal implants [2017]
  • Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
    • Intrauterine contraception: uterine perforation—updated information on risk factors [2015]
  • National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
    • Long-acting reversible contraception: levonorgestrel 13.5 mg intrauterine delivery system [2014]
• United States of America
  • Journal of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners
    • A clinical guideline for intrauterine device use in adolescents [2012]
  • Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine
    • Evidence-Based Selection of Candidates for the Levonorgestrel Intrauterine Device (IUD) [2014]
  • Patient preference and adherence
    • Understanding benefits and addressing misperceptions and barriers to intrauterine device access among populations in the United States [2014]
  • Society of Family Planning
    • Use of intrauterine devices in nulliparous women [2017]
    • Use of the Mirena LNG-IUS and Paragard CuT380A intrauterine devices in nulliparous women [2010]
  • Ultrasonography
    • Ultrasonography of intrauterine devices [2015]
• WHO
  • World Health Organization
    • WHO statement on levonorgestrel-releasing intrauterine device nomenclature [2021]
    • The TCu380A intrauterine contraceptive device (IUD): sprecification, prequalification and guidelines for procurement, 2010 [2011]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Hormonal contraception
    • Family planning, contraception

Male contraception, men and family planning

• Ethiopia
  • Contraception and Reproductive Medicine
    • Determinants of modern contraceptive use among sexually active men in Ethiopia; using EDHS 2016 national survey [2020]
• France
  • Basic and Clinical Andrology
    • Hormonal, chemical and thermal inhibition of spermatogenesis: contribution of French teams to international data with the aim of developing male contraception in France [2017]
• United States of America
  • American Journal of Public Health
    • National Needs of Family Planning Among US Men Aged 15 to 44 Years [2016]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Vasectomy, vasectomy reversal
    • Hormonal contraception
    • Family planning, contraception

Natural family planning

• Canada
  • Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
    • Canadian Contraception Consensus Chapter 4 Natural Family Planning [2015]
• International
  • Contraception
    • Does the evidence support global promotion of the calendar-based Standard Days Method® of contraception? [2016]
• Low and middle income countries
  • BMJ Global Health
    • Lactational amenorrhoea among adolescent girls in low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic scoping review [2020]
• United Kingdom
  • Faculty of Sexual & Reproductive Healthcare
    • Fertility Awareness Methods [2015]
  • National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
    • Natural Cycles for monitoring fertility [2021]
• WHO
  • World Health Organization
    • How to procure CycleBeads: a visual tool for the Standard Days Method [2012]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Family planning, contraception

Oral contraceptives

• Australia
  • Australian Family Physician
    • Oral hormonal contraception in special circumstances [2017]
    • Risk of venous thromboembolism in women taking the combined oral contraceptive: A systematic review and meta-analysis [2016]
• Canada
  • CMAJ Open
    • Cancer incidence attributable to the use of oral contraceptives and hormone therapy in Alberta in 2012 [2016]
• France
  • PLoS ONE
    • Estimate of Venous Thromboembolism and Related-Deaths Attributable to the Use of Combined Oral Contraceptives in France [2014]
• India
  • Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
    • Reference Manual for Oral Contraceptive Pills [2016]
• International
  • BMJ Global Health
    • Should oral contraceptive pills be available without a prescription? A systematic review of over-the-counter and pharmacy access availability [2019]
  • BMJ Open
    • Scoping review to map evidence on mechanism of action, pharmacokinetics, effectiveness and side effects of centchroman as a contraceptive pill [2019]
• Nigeria
  • Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare
    • An assessment of the quality of advice provided by patent medicine vendors to users of oral contraceptive pills in urban Nigeria [2014]
• United Kingdom
  • International Journal of Women's Health
    • Offering extended use of the combined contraceptive pill: a survey of specialist family planning services [2013]
  • National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
    • Combined oral contraception: nomegestrol/estradiol (Zoely) [2013]
• United States of America
  • American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
    • Risk of Venous Thromboembolism Among Users of Drospirenone-Containing Oral Contraceptive Pills [2012]
  • National Cancer Institute
    • Oral Contraceptives and Cancer Risk
• WHO
  • World Health Organization
    • Carcinogenicity of combined hormonal contraceptives and combined menopausal treatment [2005]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Hormonal contraception
    • Family planning, contraception
    • Emergency contraception

Postpartum and postabortion contraception

• Afghanistan
  • Global Health: Science and Practice
    • Integrating family planning into postpartum care through modern quality improvement: experience from Afghanistan [2014]
• Australia
  • O&G Magazine
    • Post-abortion contraception [2018]
• Burkina Faso, Democratic Republic of Congo
  • Open Access Journal of Contraception
    • Postpartum family-planning barriers and catalysts in Burkina Faso and the Democratic Republic of Congo: a multiperspective study [2018]
• Cambodia
  • Reproductive Health
    • Mobile Technology for Improved Family Planning (MOTIF): the development of a mobile phone-based (mHealth) intervention to support post-abortion family planning (PAFP) in Cambodia [2016]
• Ethiopia
  • Global Health: Science and Practice
    • Strengthening Postabortion Family Planning Services in Ethiopia: Expanding Contraceptive Choice and Improving Access to Long-Acting Reversible Contraception [2016]
• Ghana
  • BMC Public Health
    • Does the type of abortion provider influence contraceptive uptake after abortion? An analysis of longitudinal data from 64 health facilities in Ghana [2015]
  • Global Public Health
    • Post-abortion contraception choices of women in Ghana: A one-year review [2015]
• Guinea
  • Global Health: Science and Practice
    • Findings and Lessons Learned From Strengthening the Provision of Voluntary Long-Acting Reversible Contraceptives With Postabortion Care in Guinea [2019]
• India
  • Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of India
    • Postpartum IUCD: Rediscovering a Languishing Innovation [2015]
  • Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
    • Post Abortion Family Planning Technical Update [2016]
  • Studies in Family Planning
    • Associations Between Abortion Services and Acceptance of Postabortion Contraception in Six Indian States [2015]
• Indonesia
  • BMC Women's Health
    • Levels, trends and correlates of unmet need for family planning among postpartum women in Indonesia: 2007–2015 [2017]
• International
  • Contraception
    • Safety of the progesterone-releasing vaginal ring (PVR) among lactating women: A systematic review [2015]
    • Progestogen-only contraceptive use among breastfeeding women: a systematic review [2015]
    • Combined hormonal contraceptive use among breastfeeding women: an updated systematic review [2015]
  • Global Health: Science and Practice
    • Postabortion Care: 20 Years of Strong Evidence on Emergency Treatment, Family Planning, and Other Programming Components [2016]
• Liberia
  • Global Health: Science and Practice
    • Successful Proof of Concept of Family Planning and Immunization Integration in Liberia [2015]
• Low and middle income countries
  • Contraception
    • Missed opportunities for family planning: an analysis of pregnancy risk and contraceptive method use among postpartum women in 21 low- and middle-income countries [2015]
• Mexico
  • BMJ Open
    • Comparison of immediate postpartum contraception among women with a high versus low risk pregnancy in Mexico: a retrospective cohort study [2021]
• Nepal
  • BioMed Research International
    • Unmet Need for Family Planning in Nepal during the First Two Years Postpartum [2014]
• Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Global Health Action
    • Patterns and trends of postpartum family planning in Ethiopia, Malawi, and Nigeria: evidence of missed opportunities for integration [2015]
• Tanzania
  • PLoS ONE
    • Initiation of postpartum modern contraceptive methods: Evidence from Tanzania demographic and health survey [2021]
• Togo
  • Global Health: Science and Practice
    • Improving the Quality of Postabortion Care Services in Togo Increased Uptake of Contraception [2016]
• United Kingdom
  • Faculty of Sexual & Reproductive Healthcare
    • Contraception After Pregnancy [2020]
  • Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
    • Postpartum family planning [2015]
• United States of America
  • Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine
    • ABM Clinical Protocol #13: Contraception During Breastfeeding, Revised 2015 [2015]
  • American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
    • Access to Postabortion Contraception [2021]
    • Immediate Postpartum Long-Acting Reversible Contraception [2016]
  • 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]
  • Obstetrics & Gynecology
    • Contraception After Delivery and Short Interpregnancy Intervals Among Women in the United States [2015]
  • Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine
    • Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine (SMFM) Consult Series #48: Immediate postpartum long-acting reversible contraception for women at high risk for medical complications [2019]
  • Society of Family Planning
    • Society of Family Planning clinical recommendations: contraception after surgical abortion [2018]
    • Society of Family Planning Guidelines: Postplacental insertion of intrauterine devices [2017]
• West and Central Africa
  • Global Health: Science and Practice
    • Increasing Use of Postpartum Family Planning and the Postpartum IUD: Early Experiences in West and Central Africa [2016]
• WHO
  • World Health Organization
    • Introducing the World Health Organization Postpartum Family Planning Compendium [2016]
    • It’s about time: WHO and partners release programming strategies for postpartum family planning [2014]
    • Technical consultation on hormonal contraceptive use during lactation and effects on the newborn : summary report, Geneva, Switzerland, 22 October 2008 [2010]
    • Progestogen-only contraceptive use during lactation and its effects on the neonate [2009]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Postpartum (puerperium)
    • Induced abortion
    • Family planning, contraception

Sterilization

• Canada
  • Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
    • Canadian Contraception Consensus Chapter 6 Permanent Contraception [2015]
• India
  • Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
    • Standards and Quality Assurance in Sterilization Services [2014]
• United Kingdom
  • Faculty of Sexual & Reproductive Healthcare
    • Male and Female Sterilisation [2014]
• United States of America
  • Fertility and Sterility
    • Marital Status and Female and Male Contraceptive Sterilization in the United States [2015]
• WHO
  • World Health Organization
    • Eliminating forced, coercive and otherwise involuntary sterilization [2014]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Vasectomy, vasectomy reversal
    • Female sterilization, tubal ligation
    • Family planning, contraception
    • Ethics, jurisprudence: obstetrics, gynecology

Vasectomy, vasectomy reversal

• Canada
  • Canadian Urological Association
    • CUA guideline: Vasectomy [2016]
• Europe
  • European Association of Urology
    • European Association of Urology Guidelines on Vasectomy [2012]
• Ghana
  • BMC International Health and Human Rights
    • “If you do vasectomy and come back here weak, I will divorce you”: a qualitative study of community perceptions about vasectomy in Southern Ghana [2014]
• India
  • Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
    • Reference Manual for Male Sterilization [2013]
• Low-resource countries
  • Gates Open Research
    • Are evidence-based vasectomy surgical techniques performed in low-resource countries? [2019]
• Low-resource settings
  • Global Health: Science and Practice
    • A Review of 10 Years of Vasectomy Programming and Research in Low-Resource Settings [2016]
• United Kingdom
  • NHS England
    • Interim Clinical Commissioning Policy – Vasectomy [2019]
• United States of America
  • American Society for Reproductive Medicine
    • Vasectomy
  • American Urological Association
    • Vasectomy Guideline (2015) [2015]
  • Journal of Urology
    • Impact of the 2012 American Urological Association Vasectomy Guidelines on Post-Vasectomy Outcomes [2013]
• {Related topics}
  • Guidelines
    • Sterilization
    • Male contraception, men and family planning