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Family planning - WHO documents

Topic, links to other documents WHO document Year
Barrier contraceptive methods Male latex condom: specification, prequalification and guidelines for procurement, 2010 2010
Barrier contraceptive methods Scientific and technical requirements to formulate a female condom generic specification and prequalification scheme: Female condom technical review committee report 2012
Barrier contraceptive methods The female condom: a guide for planning and programming 2000
Barrier contraceptive methods WHO/UNFPA female condom generic specification 2012
Contraceptive implants Subdermal implantable contraceptives versus other forms of reversible contraceptives or other implants as effective methods of preventing pregnancy 2008
Contraceptive implants WHO statement on Progestogen-only implants 2015
Family planning services A guide to family planning for community health workers and their clients 2012
Family planning services Decision-making tool for family planning clients & providers 2005
Family planning services Ensuring human rights in the provision of contraceptive information and services 2014
Family planning services Ensuring human rights within contraceptive programmes 2014
Family planning services Ensuring human rights within contraceptive service delivery 2015
Family planning services Framework for ensuring human rights in the provision of contraceptive information 2014
Family planning services Task shifting to improve access to contraceptive methods 2013
Family planning services Universal access to reproductive health: Accelerated actions to enhance progress on Millennium through advancing Target 5B 2011
Family planning, contraception Family planning 2013
Family planning, contraception Family planning: a global handbook for providers: 2011 update 2011
Family planning, contraception Family planning versus contraception: what's in a name? 2014
Family planning, contraception Medical eligibility criteria for contraceptive use - Fifth edition, 2015 2015
Family planning, contraception Medical eligibility criteria wheel for contraceptive use 2015
Family planning, contraception Report of a technical consultation on birth spacing 2006
Family planning, contraception The effects of contraception on obstetric outcomes 2004
Female sterilization, tubal ligation Minilaparotomy and endoscopic techniques for tubal sterilization 2009
Female sterilization, tubal ligation Techniques for the interruption of tubal patency for female sterilization 2003
Hormonal contraception Immediate start of hormonal contraceptives for contraception 2009
Hormonal contraception Treatment of vaginal bleeding irregularities induced by progestin-only contraceptives 2007
Hormonal contraception Technical Consultation on the effects of hormonal contraception on bone health 2007
Hormonal contraception WHO issues statements on use of reversible hormonal contraception 2015
Induced abortion Clinical practice handbook for safe abortion 2014
Induced abortion Expanding health worker roles for safe abortion in the first trimester of pregnancy 2016
Induced abortion From concept to measurement: operationalizing WHO’s definition of unsafe abortion 2014
Induced abortion Health worker roles in providing safe abortion care and post-abortion contraception 2015
Induced abortion Overview of abortion cases with severe maternal outcomes in the WHO Multicountry Survey on Maternal and Newborn Health: a descriptive analysis 2014
Induced abortion Safe abortion: technical and policy guidance for health systems 2012
Injectable contraceptives Depot-medroxyprogesterone versus norethisterone enantate for long-acting progestogenic contraception 2006
Intrauterine device (IUD) Antibiotic prophylaxis for intrauterine contraceptive device insertion 2002
Intrauterine device (IUD) Copper-containing, framed intrauterine devices for contraception 2006
Intrauterine device (IUD) The TCu380A intrauterine contraceptive device (IUD): sprecification, prequalification and guidelines for procurement, 2010 2011
Natural family planning How to procure CycleBeads: a visual tool for the Standard Days Method 2012
Oral contraceptives Monophasic versus multiphasic oral contraceptives 2009
Oral contraceptives Progestogens in combined oral contraceptives for contraception 2006
Oral contraceptives Carcinogenicity of combined hormonal contraceptives and combined menopausal treatment 2005
Postcoital contraceptives Emergency contraception 2016
Postcoital contraceptives Fact sheet on the safety of levonorgestrel-alone emergency contraceptive pills (LNG ECPs) 2010
Postpartum and postabortion contraception Combined hormonal contraceptive use during the postpartum period 2010
Postpartum and postabortion contraception It’s about time: WHO and partners release programming strategies for postpartum family planning 2014
Postpartum and postabortion contraception Programming strategies for postpartum family planning 2013
Postpartum and postabortion contraception Statement for collective action for postpartum family planning 2013
Postpartum and postabortion contraception Technical consultation on hormonal contraceptive use during lactation and effects on the newborn : summary report, Geneva, Switzerland, 22 October 2008 2010
Sterilization Eliminating forced, coercive and otherwise involuntary sterilization 2014
Vasectomy, vasectomy reversal Scalpel versus no-scalpel incision for vasectomy 2009