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Emergency Contraception [PDF]

open access: yesMayo Clinic Proceedings, 2016
Emergency contraception (EC) may help prevent pregnancy in various circumstances, such as contraceptive method failure, unprotected sexual intercourse, or sexual assault, yet it remains underused. There are 4 approved EC options in the United States. Although ulipristal acetate requires a provider's prescription, oral levonorgestrel (LNG) is available ...
Pelin, Batur   +2 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Many Low Income Women In Texas Do Not Get the Effective Contraception They Want After Giving Birth [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Population Research ...
Coleman-Minahan, Kate   +7 more
core   +1 more source

Cheia de axé (full of axé): Spirituality, resistance, and repair in Pernambuco's Afro‐Brazilian traditional communities

open access: yesFeminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores how Afro‐Brazilian communities in Pernambuco respond to state‐led industrial development through culturally rooted practices of resistance and repair. Drawing on archival and ethnographic research in the coastal municipalities of Cabo de Santo Agostinho and Ipojuca, this study traces the effects of Brazil's large‐scale ...
Shelly Annette Biesel
wiley   +1 more source

“I need to take care of myself as well”—self‐care strategies of abortion acompañantes in Northern Mexico

open access: yesFeminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract This ethnographic study explores the emotional labor and self‐care strategies of feminist abortion acompañantes in Northern Mexico. Operating within restrictive legal environments, acompañantes provide crucial support for self‐managed medication abortions (SMAs), engaging in significant, often invisible, emotional labor.
Bruna Alvarez, Suzanne Veldhuis
wiley   +1 more source

Peran perempuan dalam penggunaan alat kontrasepsi

open access: yesMasyarakat, Kebudayaan dan Politik, 2016
Family planning is a program established by government to minimize the population explosion by preventing pregnancy and child birth. Women are naturally able to conceive and give birth so they become the target of higher contraceptive use than men. Women
Anis Fitriani
doaj   +1 more source

Emergency contraception [PDF]

open access: yesBMJ, 2000
Knowledge and use of emergency contraception world-wide is extremely limited. Recent research has demonstrated that levonorgestrel alone is at least as effective as the Yuzpe regimen and is much better tolerated. Levonorgestrel is likely to become the method of choice in the early 21st century.
openaire   +5 more sources

Working With Faith-Based Communities to Develop an Education Tool kit on Relationships, Sexuality, and Contraception [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Communities disproportionately affected from higher rates of unplanned teen births are in need of sustainable approaches to prevention strategies. One approach is to build the capacity of faith-based communities (FBCs) to address the sexual health needs ...
Bell, Sheryl B   +6 more
core   +2 more sources

Trends in the incidence of cancers of the breast and female genital tract in Harare, Zimbabwe 1990–2019

open access: yesInternational Journal of Cancer, EarlyView.
What's New? Cancers of the breast and female genital tract represent more than half of all cancers in women in sub‐Saharan Africa. Here, the authors assessed incidence trends in a female population living in urban sub‐Saharan Africa based on the Zimbabwe National Cancer Registry in Harare over a 30‐year period.
Eric Chokunonga   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Attitudes Toward Contraception Among Fourth Wave College-Aged Women

open access: yes, 2018
This research examines how college-aged women today view contraception in comparison to the ways it has been viewed by previous generations of women, as well as what they view the future of contraception in the United States to look like.
Lewis, Caroline L.
core  

An Analysis of the Majority Report “Responsible Parenthood” and its Recommendations on Abortion, Sterilization and Contraception [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
This paper will focus on the majority report (titled “Responsible Parenthood”) of the 1966 Papal Birth Control Commission and its recommendations on abortion, sterilization, and contraception.(1) The analysis is made with the hindsight and perspective of
Fehring, Richard
core   +1 more source

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