Contraceptive implants: providing better choice to meet growing family planning demand

R Jacobstein, H Stanley - Global Health: Science and Practice, 2013 - ghspjournal.org
Contraceptive implants are extremely effective, long acting, and suitable for nearly all
women—to delay, space, or limit pregnancies—and they are increasingly popular. Now …

Global introduction of a low-cost contraceptive implant

KH Rademacher, HL Vahdat, L Dorflinger… - Critical issues in …, 2013 - Springer
Hormone-releasing subdermal implants are a safe, highly effective, and reversible form of
contraception that provides continuous pregnancy protection for 3–5 years depending on …

[HTML][HTML] Liftoff: the blossoming of contraceptive implant use in Africa

R Jacobstein - Global Health: Science and Practice, 2018 - ghspjournal.org
This article draws from national surveys of every sub-Saharan African country with at least 1
recent survey published between 2015 and 2017 and 2 prior surveys from 2003 to 2014 …

Contraceptive implants

OA Ladipo, SA Akinso - African journal of reproductive health, 2005 - JSTOR
In response to the need of some women for long-acting, effective and safe contraceptives,
the scientific community developed non-biodegradable progestational subdermal implants …

Implantable contraceptives for women: effectiveness, discontinuation rates, return of fertility, and outcome of pregnancies

A Glasier - Contraception, 2002 - Elsevier
Progestogen-only contraceptive implants are highly effective. In most studies, 5-year
cumulative pregnancy rates are less than 1.5/100 women for Norplant and Norplant II. No …

Contraceptive implants

R McDonald-Mosley, AE Burke - Seminars in reproductive …, 2010 - thieme-connect.com
Implantable contraception has been extensively used worldwide. Implants are one of the
most effective and reversible methods of contraception available. These devices may be …

Risk–benefit effects of implantable contraceptives in women

V Brache, A Faundes, F Alvarez - Expert opinion on drug safety, 2003 - Taylor & Francis
Contraceptive implant technology has been used by millions of women throughout the
world. The three marketed implant systems today are levonorgestrel-releasing implants …

[PDF][PDF] Contraceptive introduction reconsidered: A review and conceptual framework

J Spicehandler, R Simmons - 1994 - apps.who.int
By the early 1960s major breakthroughs in the development of fertility regulation
technologies signalled the beginning of the so-called" contraceptive revolution"(Atkinson et …

Contraceptive implants: current perspectives

S Rowlands, S Searle - Open Access Journal of Contraception, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Progestin-only contraceptive implants are a highly cost-effective form of long-acting
reversible contraception. They are the most effective reversible contraceptives and are of a …

[PDF][PDF] Contraceptive technologies: responding to women's needs

JE Darroch, G Sedgh, H Ball - New York: Guttmacher Institute, 2011 - guttmacher.org
Seven in 10 women with unmet need in the three regions cite reasons for nonuse that could
be rectified with appropriate methods: Twenty-three percent are concerned about health …