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Contraception Clinical Publications & Resources

Here you can find practice guidelines, clinical reports, interactive tools, and other resources designed for health care providers.

ACOG Bookstore – Practice Bulletins and Guidelines as well as Patient Brochures available

America's Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being, 2007. Forum on Child and Family Statistics

ARHP Visiting Faculty Programs

Bills Aimed at Reducing Abortion Filed as New Front Opens to Marginalize the Role of Contraception from Guttmacher Policy Review

Checklist for Screening Clients Who Want to Initiate Use of the Copper IUD from Family Health International

A Clinician’s Guide to Providing Emergency Contraceptive Pills from Pacific Institute of Women’s Health

Clinical Proceedings: Breaking the Contraceptive Barriers

Clinical Proceedings: Helping your Patients Decide: Making Informed Health Choices about Hormonal Contraception 

Clinical Proceedings: Extended and Continuous Use of Contraceptives to Reduce Menstruation 

Clinical Proceedings: New Developments in Intrauterine Contraception 

Clinical Proceedings: Periodic Well-Woman Visit: Individualized Contraceptive Care 

Community-Based Health Workers Can Safely and Effectively Administer Injectable Contraceptives (PDF) from USAID

Comparing Effectiveness of Family Planning Methods (French, Spanish) from Family Health International

Contraceptive Behavior and Risk Taking Among Adolescents from Medscape

Contraceptive Counseling: The Patient Interview from Contraception Online

Contraception, An International Reproductive Health Journal 

Contraception from eMedicine.com

Contraception/Birth Control from ObGyn.net

Contraception, Disability and Illness from sexualityandu.ca

Contraception is the name of the game

Contraceptive Counseling: The Patient Interview from Contraception Online

Dear Dr. Shieh from Guampdn.com

Dilemmas in family planning – IUDs from Pulse

Emerging Answers 2007 from The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy

Family Planning: A Global Handbook for Providers from the INFO Project

Family Planning: A Key Component of Post Abortion Care (PDF) from USAID

The Female Patient

Guidelines for medico-legal care for victims of sexual violence from WHO

Gynecologic and Colorectal Cancer: Risks and Benefits of Contraceptive Methods from Contraception Online

Implants: The Next Generation from Population Reports

Implants Toolkit from INFO Project

Injectables Toolkit from Population Reports, INFO Project

IUD Toolkit from USAID

Long-Acting Reversible Contraception: The Best Kept Birth Control Secret?, ARHP member Andrew Kaunitz's GYN video blog

Medicaid’s Role in Family Planning from Guttmacher Institute and Kaiser Family Foundation

Minilaparotomy for Female Sterilization: An Illustrated Guide for Service Providers from EngenderHealth

Need to Know – Contraception from Pulse

No-Scalpel Vasectomy: An Illustrated Guide for Surgeons, Third Edition from EngenderHealth

A Pocket Guide To Managing Contraception (PDF)

Provider Checklists for Reproductive Health Services: Reference Guide from Family Health International

Protecting the Next Generation: Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health – Africa from Guttmacher Institute

Providers' Perspectives: Perceived Barriers to Contraceptive Use in Youth and Young Adults, a report from the ARHP and the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy

A Real-Time Look at the Impact of the Recession on Women’s Family Planning and Pregnancy Decisions from the Guttmacher Institute

Rekindling Efforts to Prevent Unplanned Pregnancy: A Matter of ‘Equity and Common Sense’ from the Guttmacher Institute

Quick Reference Guide for Clinicians: Administration of Hormonal Contraceptive Drugs 

Quick Reference Guide for Clinicians: Communicating with Patients 

Quick Reference Guide for Clinicians: Levonorgestrel Intrauterine Contraception 

Quick Reference Guide for Clinicians: Non-Hormonal Contraceptive Methods 

Summary Table of Contraceptive Efficacy

Summer Price Spike: A Case Study About Publicly Funded Clinics and the Cost of Contraceptive Supplies from Guttmacher Policy Review

Update: Injectable Contraception and Skeletal Health Concerns, ARHP member Andrew Kaunitz's GYN video blog

What You Need to Know fact sheets: Labeling Changes for Depot Medroxyprogesterone Acetate 

What You Need to Know fact sheets: Menstrual Suppression 

What You Need to Know fact sheets: Microbicides: Prevention of HIV/AIDS, STIs, and Unintended Pregnancy 

Which birth control pills can be used for emergency contraception in the United States from Not-2-late.com

WHO Medical Eligibility Criteria for Contraceptives

You Decide: Making Informed Health Choices about Hormonal Contraception Tool Kit

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