OBGYN & Women’s Health

The study assessed non-barrier contraceptive use among FSW and relation to inconsistent condom use among commercial and non-commercial male sexual partners. Researchers recruited 2338 FSW through respondent-driven sampling for...

HIV infection and pregnancy are both common among FSW, indicating the need for PMTCT. Researchers enrolled in 1666 FSW in studies using respondent-driven sampling. Women completed interview-administered socio-behavioral surveys...

Stakeholders can provide local insights on barriers to FP. It can be challenging to know whether there may be limited program perceptions if only one inquiry method is used. Researchers aimed to validate the perceptions of...

Supreme Leader of Iran called for the shift to pronatalist population policies to view the low fertility rate. Iran’s Parliament proposed a bill to curb contraceptive knowledge and services as a solution. This study aimed...

Uptake of the most effective long-acting reversible contraception methods immediately after abortion reduces women’s risk of other abortions. Researchers did his study to compare the uptake of LARC at abortion services from a...

Researchers did this study to determine the main reasons for the TOP requests in a UK city. Researchers administered a survey requesting grounds for a pregnancy termination from women attending a TOP clinic. Researchers...

Pre-termination counseling is currently voluntary; however, there has been political debate regarding the introduction of mandatory pre-termination counseling and who should be providing abortion counseling services. Researchers...

Researchers focused on the survey of women who had undergone more than one abortion. The researchers did this study to examine influencing factors in women’s post-abortion reproductive behavior, in addition to exploring...

In Victoria, Australia, abortion was decriminalized in October 2008, bringing the law in line with clinical practice and community attitudes. We describe how experts in abortion service provision perceived the 2008 Victorian...

OCPs are one of the most popular family planning methods. The use of OCPs was identified as a means of intentional self-poisoning. This article aims to describe the extent, patient characteristics, and outcomes of OCP...

The intimate nature of sexuality makes it challenging to measure sexual behavior accurately. Researchers did this study examined agreement between couples in heterosexual HIV serodiscordant partnership on survey questions...

There is little literature available about the acceptability of self-collection in rural African settings. Researchers did this study to characterize Malawian women’s willingness to self-collect vaginal samples for HPV...

There is little understand and literature that has explored Australian women’s understandings of contraception. The researchers conducted this study to examine the attitudes towards and performances of women’s subdermal...

Good doctor-patient communication is crucial in the field of contraception and core to shared decision making. There is less literature that is available about how doctors manage contraceptive consultation for primary health...

Researchers did this study to evaluate the effects of the etonogestrel contraceptive implant on bone metabolism in lactating women using markers for bone formation and resorption. This was a single-center, prospective cohort...

The influence of family violence and child marriage on unmet need for family planning may be influenced by violence perpetrated by other family members. Women who are married as minors may be most vulnerable to IPV and FV’s IPV...

The researchers estimated the contraceptive prevalence rate in Mozambique at 11.3 percent in the last Demographic and Health Survey. The impact of family planning (FP) on women’s health and maternal mortality reduction is...