Advance provision of emergency contraception was found to be ineffective at reducing unwanted pregnancy after review of several studies. A collaborative effort of family planning researchers have concluded that providing emergency contraception in advance to large populations of women may not be as effective as believed. The research, published in issue three of 2010’s Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, was based on a review of 11 different studies involving nearly 7,700 women from China, India, Sweden and the United States.
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The former EastEnders actress announced that she is currently 12 weeks pregnant.
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On this one hundredth International Women’s Day, a coalition of UK campaign groups is calling for global reductions in pregnancy and childbirth risks. In conjunction with the one hundredth anniversary of International Women’s Day, a coalition of the U.K.’s Amnesty International, Mumsnet, Oxfam, Save the Children and the White Ribbon Alliance have called on world leaders to put greater emphasis on the risks currently posed to mothers and children alike
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Unplanned pregnancy is a growing problem for women over the age of 35, many who believe that they’re too old to conceive. The U.K.’s sexual health charity Family Planning Association (FPA) has announced a new campaign called “Conceivable?” to remind women that contraception is needed until a year or two after menopause. This week the campaign , as part of the charity’s Contraceptive Awareness Week, is focused on letting women know that age is not a contraception.
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A new morning-after pill has been shown to be effective at stopping a woman from getting pregnant up to 5 days after unprotected sex. Research out of the University of Edinburgh and NHS Lothian in Scotland compared the effectiveness of commonly available morning-after pill levonorgestrel with a new form, ulipristal acetate
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Funding for programs aimed at teaching abstinence-only approaches to sex education is non-existent in the new federal budget, but proponents hope that funding will be found in the health-care reform legislation. The days of former President George W
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Hormonal contraceptives provide additional benefits to many women who use them to prevent pregnancy. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists has published a new bulletin in January’s edition of the journal Obstetrics and Gynecology, raising awareness of the many benefits of hormonal contraceptives for women
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The Department of Health has released statistics for 2008 that provide a revealing look at repeat abortions in the UK. Health ministers in the U.K
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The UK government has announced a new campaign encouraging youth to talk more openly about safe sex in an effort to reduce teenage pregnancy rates.
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A new UN report has stated that women are most likely to be affected by climate change, but it stopped short of directly encouraging population control. A report issued Thursday by the U.N
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11% of British people surveyed by the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) still believe a woman can’t get pregnant if she has sex standing up, according to a recent poll. The DCSF commissioned the survey of 2,000 people aged 16-50 to highlight misconceptions around safe sex. Almost 20% per cent thought having sex while a woman is on her period or if the man withdraws before ejaculation means a woman can’t get pregnant
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Britain has taken the top spot with the highest number of reported abortions in Europe in 2007. Sifting through data provided by Eurostat, Norway-based Institute for Family Policies has found that Britain ranked at the top of the European abortion list for 2007, overtaking France, a country with nearly six million more people. As teenage pregnancy rates have increased more than 30 percent over the last 10 years, abortion rates for girls under 18 have also increased.
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Presently in Pakistan there are more than 500 maternal deaths for every 100,000 live births, in Balochistan it’s 673.
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