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The Contraceptive Vaginal Ring

Seminars in Reproductive Medicine, 2010
The contraceptive vaginal ring offers effective contraception that is self-administered, requires less frequent dosing than many other forms of contraception, and provides low doses of hormones. NuvaRing (Organon, Oss, The Netherlands), the only contraceptive vaginal ring approved for use in the United States, contains etonogestrel and ethinyl ...
Jill Edwardson
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Vaginal rings for delivery of HIV microbicides

International Journal of Women's Health, 2012
R Karl Malcolm, Susan M Fetherston, Clare F McCoy, Peter Boyd, Ian MajorSchool of Pharmacy, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, UKAbstract: Following the successful development of long-acting steroid-releasing vaginal ring devices for the ...
McCoy CF, Fetherston SM, Malcolm RK, Boyd P, Major I   +4 more
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Advances in contraception: vaginal contraceptive rings

Therapeutic Advances in Reproductive Health, 2023
The vaginal contraceptive ring is very effective and user dependent. In this article, we will discuss the different types of vaginal contraceptive rings, namely, the etonogestrel/ethinyl estradiol (ENG/EE) ring (NuvaRing, Merck, Rahway, NJ, USA) and the ...
Sara Al-Haddad, Ki’ara K. R. Branham, Camille A. Clare   +2 more
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The Vaginal Microbiota, Bacterial Biofilms and Polymeric Drug-Releasing Vaginal Rings [PDF]

Pharmaceutics, 2021
The diversity and dynamics of the microbial species populating the human vagina are increasingly understood to play a pivotal role in vaginal health. However, our knowledge about the potential interactions between the vaginal microbiota and vaginally ...
Louise Carson, Ruth Merkatz, Elena Martinelli, Peter Boyd, Bruce Variano, Teresa Sallent, Robert Karl Malcolm   +6 more
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The impact of an educational intervention on undergraduate students’ knowledge, acceptability, and willingness to pay for dapivirine vaginal ring in Nigeria's first indigenous university: a single-arm, non-randomized study [PDF]

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Background This study aimed to assess the impact of an educational intervention on knowledge, acceptability, and willingness to pay (WTP) for dapivirine vaginal ring (DPV-VR) by undergraduate female students at the University of Nigeria (UNN).
Abdulmuminu Isah, Gabriel Ezenri, Ogechi Obi, Nnamdi A. Okibe, Hadiza Usman Ma’aji, Ezinwanne J. Ugochukwu, Cynthia C. Eze, Chisom M. Amoke, Augustus Ezeodimegwu, Charles C. Idabor, Mustapha Muhammed Abubakar, Francis Iloabuchi, Ikenna John Ugwu, Chukwuebuka M. Asogwa, Chinwe V. Ukwe, Blessing Onyinye Ukoha-kalu   +15 more
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High adherence to intermittent and continuous use of a contraceptive vaginal ring among women in a randomized controlled trial in Kigali, Rwanda [PDF]

Frontiers in Global Women's Health
BackgroundThe introduction of female-initiated drug-delivery methods, including vaginal rings, have proven to be a promising avenue to address sexually transmitted infections and unintended pregnancies, which disproportionally affects women and girls in ...
Evelyne Kestelyn, Evelyne Kestelyn, Evelyne Kestelyn, Jennifer Ilo Van Nuil, Jennifer Ilo Van Nuil, Jennifer Ilo Van Nuil, Marie Michelle Umulisa, Grace Umutoni, Alice Uwingabire, Irith De Baetselier, Mireille Uwineza, Stephen Agaba, Tania Crucitti, Thérèse Delvaux, Janneke H. H. M. van de Wijgert, Janneke H. H. M. van de Wijgert   +15 more
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Adolescent Experiences with the Vaginal Ring [PDF]

Journal of Adolescent Health, 2008
To understand racial/ethnic minority adolescent females' experiences with the vaginal ring.We conducted in-depth interviews with a clinic-based sample of 32 young women aged 15-24 years who had used the vaginal ring.Qualitative analysis using grounded theory revealed that adolescents undergo a multi-stage process when trying the ring and adopting ring ...
Karen Sokal-Gutierrez, Susan Lee Ivey, Tina R Raine   +2 more
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Does monthly self-management of vaginal ring pessaries reduce the rate of adverse events? A clinical audit

European Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Reproductive Biology: X, 2022
Objective: To determine the rate of adverse events (AE) in women who self-manage their vaginal ring pessary on a monthly basis. We hypothesised that the AE rate would be lower compared to previously published traditional management protocols.
Kate H. Moore, Karin Lammers, Wendy Allen, Katrina Parkin, Nevine te West   +4 more
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Contraceptive rings promote vaginal lactobacilli in a high bacterial vaginosis prevalence population: A randomised, open-label longitudinal study in Rwandan women. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2018
BACKGROUND:Hormonal contraception has been associated with a reduced risk of vaginal dysbiosis, which in turn has been associated with reduced prevalence of sexually transmitted infections (STIs), including HIV.
Tania Crucitti, Liselotte Hardy, Janneke van de Wijgert, Stephen Agaba, Jozefien Buyze, Evelyne Kestelyn, Thérèse Delvaux, Lambert Mwambarangwe, Irith De Baetselier, Vicky Jespers, Ring Plus study group   +10 more
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“It’s already in your body and it’s preventing”: a qualitative study of African female adolescent’s acceptability and preferences for proxy HIV prevention methods in Cape Town, South Africa

BMC Public Health, 2023
Background Advances in biomedical HIV prevention will soon offer young women a choice of HIV prevention methods, including various pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) modalities such as daily oral pills, dapivirine vaginal ring, and long-acting injectable ...
Lauren Fynn, Katherine Gill, Melissa Wallace, Millicent Atujuna, Menna Duyver, Penelope Ngcobo, Hans Spiegel, Alex Rinehart, Sybil Hosek, Linda-Gail Bekker   +9 more
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