Contraceptive Methods

  • Toolkit
    April 13, 2017

    Meeting the Sexual and Reproductive Health Needs of Young Married Women and First-time Parents Toolkit

    In many countries and regions of the world, young people (ages 10-24) experience early marriage followed directly by pressure to bear children, making young married women (YMW) a cohort with particularly high fertility rates, high unmet need for contraception, and high rates of closely spaced pregnancies. Young married women and first-time parents (FTPs) face a unique set of challenges to living healthy sexual and reproductive lives—challenges that are different to those faced by unmarried adolescents, older married women or older parents.

  • Toolkit
    October 31, 2013

    Emergency Contraception Toolkit

    Welcome to the Emergency Contraception Toolkit. This Toolkit contains fundamental information, evidence-based guidance, and programmatic tools for providing emergency contraception. The Toolkit also provides a range of case studies and reports sharing experiences and lessons learned from implementation of emergency contraception programs in countries around the world. Use the purple navigation menu on the right side of the page or the site map to browse the resources in this Toolkit.

  • Toolkit
    November 04, 2010

    Community-Based Access to Injectable Contraceptives Toolkit

    The Community-Based Access to Injectable Contraceptives Toolkit is a platform for strengthening the capacity of agencies and organizations to plan, implement, evaluate, promote, and scale up community-based access to injectables (CBA2I) programs and to advocate for changes to national policy and service delivery guidelines.

  • Toolkit
    September 01, 2010

    Oral Contraceptives Toolkit

    When used consistently and correctly, oral contraceptives (OCs) are among the most effective methods for preventing unwanted pregnancies. OCs are safe for most women of reproductive age and are used by more than 100 million women worldwide. Many women like OCs because they are controlled by the woman, they can be stopped any time without a provider’s help, and they do not interfere with sex. In addition, community health workers can provide OCs, making them accessible to women who do not have access to a health facility.

  • Toolkit
    August 17, 2010

    Permanent Methods Toolkit

    Female sterilization is the most commonly used contraceptive method, used by an estimated 220 million married women worldwide (about 20%). In contrast, male sterilization is the least used modern contraceptive method. An estimated 33 million married women (less than 3%) rely on their partner's vasectomy for contraception. 

  • Toolkit
    September 09, 2009

    Condom Use Toolkit

  • Toolkit
    August 14, 2009

    Implants Toolkit

    Contraceptive implants are small, thin, flexible plastic rods, each about the size of a matchstick, that release a progestin hormone into the body. Many clients are satisfied with them because they are safe, highly effective, long-acting, and quickly reversible. Implants require little attention after insertion, making them very convenient to use.

    Three kinds of implants are highlighted in the Toolkit:

    • Implanon (and its successors Implanon NXT and Nexplanon)

  • Toolkit
    August 14, 2009

    Injectables Toolkit

    Community-Based Access to Injectables | Subcutaneous DMPA (depo-subQ)

  • Toolkit
    August 14, 2009

    IUD Toolkit

    The intrauterine device (IUD), a small, flexible plastic frame that a specifically trained provider inserts into a woman’s uterus, provides very effective, safe, and long-term—yet quickly reversible—protection from pregnancy. IUDs can be one of the most cost-effective contraceptive methods because modern IUDs can be used for many years—for at least 12 years for the copper-bearing TCu-380A IUD, and up to 5 years or possibly longer for the hormonal IUD (commercially marketed as Mirena®).