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Long-acting reversible contraception

Australia

• Australian Family Physician
  • LARCs as first-line contraception – What can general practitioners advise young women? [2017]
  • Contraception: LARCs first? [2017]

• Australian Journal of General Practice
  • Long-acting reversible contraceptives: New evidence to support clinical practice [2022]

• Australian Prescriber
  • Choosing non-oral, long-acting reversible contraception [2016]

• Journal of the National Cancer Institute
  • Long-acting, progestin-based contraceptives and risk of breast, gynecological, and other cancers [2025]

Brazil

• Clinics
  • The economic impact of Long-Acting Contraceptives (LARCs) on public health [2025]

• Revista Brasileira de Ginecologia e Obstetrícia
  • Long-Acting Reversible Contraception [2017]

Cambodia

• WHO Western Pacific Region
  • Cambodia: identifying actions for scaling up long-acting reversible contraceptives [2017]

Canada

• Canadian Family Physician
  • Extended duration of use of long-acting reversible contraceptives: Systematic review [2025]

East Africa

• PLoS ONE
  • Utilization of long-acting contraceptive methods and associated factor among women of reproductive age in East Africa: A multi-level analysis of recent Demographic and Health Surveys [2025]

Ethiopia

• BMJ Open
  • Trends and factors influencing long-acting contraceptive utilisation among contraceptive users in Ethiopia: repeated cross-sectional study [2021]

• Frontiers in Public Health
  • Discontinuation of long acting reversible contraceptive use and its determinants among women in Ethiopia: Systematic review and meta-analysis [2022]

• Geospatial Health
  • Geographic distribution and demographic factors associated with use of a long-acting reversible contraceptive (LARC) in Ethiopia [2025]

• PLoS ONE
  • Long-acting reversible and permanent contraceptives utilization and its associated factors among married women who desire no more children in Ethiopia: A multilevel analysis [2025]

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

• Systematic Reviews
  • Barriers and facilitators of acceptability and uptake of long-acting reversible contraceptives in Ethiopia: a systematic review using the COM-B model [2025]

Ghana

• BMC Women's Health
  • Women's sexual empowerment and utilization of long-acting reversible contraceptives in Ghana: evidence from the 2014 demographic and health survey [2023]

• Reproductive Health
  • Evaluation of immediate and sustained effects of transitioning quality long-acting reversible contraceptives (LARCs) services to public sector health facilities in Ghana: a pre-post intervention study [2025]

India

• Federation of Obstetric and Gynecological Societies of India
  • Long-Acting Reversible Contraceptives (LARC) [2024]

Indonesia, Philippines

• BMC Public Health
  • Barriers for multiparous women to using long-term contraceptive methods in Southeast Asia: case study in Philippines and Indonesia [2022]

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]

Malaysia

• Federation of Reproductive Health Associations, Malaysia
  • Long Acting Reversible Contraceptives (LARC) Guidelines for Malaysia [2016]

New Zealand

• Ministry of Health New Zealand
  • Long-acting Reversible Contraception: Health Practitioner Training Principles and Standards [2022]

Papua New Guinea

• WHO Western Pacific Region
  • Papua New Guinea : actions for scaling up long-acting reversible contraception [2017]

Senegal

• Global Health: Science and Practice
  • Mentoring, Task Sharing, and Community Outreach Through the TutoratPlus Approach: Increasing Use of Long-Acting Reversible Contraceptives in Senegal [2016]

Sub-Saharan Africa

• BMC Public Health
  • Prevalence and factors associated with the use of long-acting reversible and permanent contraceptive methods among women who desire no more children in high fertility countries in sub-saharan Africa [2022]

• International Health
  • Prevalence and predictors of long-acting reversible contraceptive use among sexually active women in 26 sub-Saharan African countries [2022]

United Kingdom

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

• Prescriber
  • Choice and use of long-acting reversible contraceptives [2023]

United States

• American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
  • Increasing Access to Intrauterine Devices and Contraceptive Implants [2023]
  • Long-Acting Reversible Contraception Implants and Intrauterine Devices [2017]
  • Clinical Challenges of Long-Acting Reversible Contraceptive Methods [2016]
  • Long-Acting Reversible Contraception

• Medical Surveillance Monthly Report
  • Long-Acting Reversible Contraceptive Use, Active Component Service Women, U.S. Armed Forces, 2016–2020 [2021]

• Obstetrics & Gynecology
  • Contraceptive Method Switching and Long-Acting Reversible Contraception Removal in U.S. Safety Net Clinics, 2016-2021 [2023]

• Open Access Journal of Contraception
  • Review of Publicly Available State Reimbursement Policies for Removal and Reinsertion of Long-Acting Reversible Contraception [2024]

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

• Preventive Medicine Reports
  • Employment Status in the United States and Use of Long-Acting Reversible Contraception or Moderately Effective Contraception before and after the Affordable Care Act: National Survey of Family Growth 2006-2010 and 2015-2017 [2023]

• Society of Family Planning
  • Society of Family Planning clinical recommendation: Extended use of long-acting reversible contraception [2022]

• Women's Health Issues
  • Mapping Long-acting Reversible Contraceptive Interventions to the Social Ecological Model: A Scoping Review [2023]
  • Are LARC Users Less Likely to Use Condoms? An Analysis of U.S. Women Initiating LARC in 2008-2018 [2022]

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