BACKGROUND: To reduce a large unmet need for family planning in many developing
countries, governments are increasingly looking to community health workers (CHWs) as an …

Voluntary family planning is one of the most efficacious and cost‐effective means of improving
individual health, gender equity, family well‐being, and national development. Increasing …

In June 2009, a technical consultation held at the World Health Organization (WHO) in
Geneva concluded that evidence supports the introduction, continuation and scaleup of …

With the renewed focus on family planning, a clear and transparent understanding is needed
for the consistent classification of contraceptives, especially in the commonly used modern/…

Objective: Dynamic Optimal Timing (Dot) is a smartphone application (app) that estimates
the menstrual cycle fertile window based on the user’s menstrual period start dates. Dot uses …

Fertility awareness methods—the Lactational Amenorrhea Method, the Standard Days
Method, and the Two Day Method—are safe and effective, and they have important additional …

Sayana® Press (SP) is a 104-mg single dose of medroxyprogesterone acetate (MPA) in
0.65-mL volume, sterilely packaged in the Uniject device. Uniject is a prefilled, non-reusable …

The BIOSELF 110 is a hand-held, non-invasive electronic instrument that measures basal
body temperature and cycle length, and automatically identifies the fertile and infertile phases …

Developing new technology in contraception and family planning methods invites the
question as to whether it is possible that these methods might facilitate or enhance sexual …

The editors have put together the papers presented at the Second Contraceptive Research
and Development Program International Workshop, held in Norfolk, Virginia (USA), in …