Family planning

PUBLICATIONS

Advocacy

• Family planning for health and development: actions for change
  Meeting report
  1 May 2010
• Emergency contraception: dispelling the myths and misperceptions
  Bulletin of the World Health Organization 2010;88:243-243. doi: 10.2471/BLT.10.077446
  14 April 2010
• Repositioning family planning
  Guidelines for advocacy action
  19 August 2008
• Glion consultation on strengthening the linkages between reproductive health and HIV/AIDS: family planning and HIV/AIDS in women and children
  31 December 2006
• Family planning: the unfinished agenda
  The Lancet Sexual & reproductive health series
  18 November 2006
• Sexual and reproductive health and HIV/AIDS: a framework for priority linkages
  31 December 2005

Clinical guides and counselling tools

• Medical eligibility criteria for contraceptive use
  Fourth edition, 2009
  26 September 2010
• Combined hormonal contraceptive use during the postpartum period
  Statement
  25 August 2010
• Packages of interventions
  Family planning, safe abortion care, maternal, newborn and child health
  4 August 2010
• Safety of levonorgestrel-alone emergency contraceptive pills
  Fact sheet
  25 March 2010
• Medical eligibility criteria wheel for contraceptive use
  2008 update
  15 June 2009
• Progestogen-only contraceptive use during lactation and its effects on the neonate
  Statement
  6 June 2009
• Hormonal contraception and liver disease
  WHO provider brief - Contraception 80 (2009) 325–326
  12 January 2009
• Decision-making tool for family planning clients and providers
  Implementation guide on CD-ROM
  17 September 2007
• Does hormonal contraception modify the risk of STI acquisition?
  Provider brief
  8 September 2007
• Family planning: a global handbook for providers
  2011 Update
  31 August 2007
• Hormonal contraception and bone health
  Provider brief
  30 April 2007
• Reproductive choices and family planning for people living with HIV
  Counselling tool
  25 October 2006
• Decision-making tool for family planning clients and providers
  A ressource for high-quality counselling
  31 December 2005
• Levonorgestrel for emergency contraception
  Fact sheet
  5 October 2005
• Selected practice recommendations for contraceptive use
  Second edition
  31 December 2004

Evidence

• Hormonal contraception and HIV
  Technical statement
  17 February 2012
• Provision of injectable contraceptives in Ethiopia through community-based reproductive health agents
  Bulletin of the World Health Organization - Volume 89, Number 8
  5 August 2011
• Review of priorities in research: Hormonal contraception and IUDs and HIV infection
  Report of a technical meeting
  21 December 2010
• Combined hormonal contraceptive use during the postpartum period
  Statement
  25 August 2010
• Safety of levonorgestrel-alone emergency contraceptive pills
  Fact sheet
  25 March 2010
• Technical consultation on hormonal contraception use during lactation and effects on the newborn
  Summary report
  18 March 2010
• Community-based health workers can safely and effectively administer injectable contraceptives
  Conclusions from a technical consultation
  23 September 2009
• The safety of quinacrine when used as a method of non-surgical sterilization in women
  Interim statement
  8 September 2009
• Progestogen-only contraceptive use during lactation and its effects on the neonate
  Statement
  6 June 2009
• Technical Consultation on the effects of hormonal contraception on bone health
  Summary report
  31 December 2007
• Report of a WHO technical consultation on birth spacing
  31 December 2007
• Hormonal Contraception and HIV: Science and Policy - Africa Regional Meeting, Nairobi 19–21 September 2005
  Statement
  24 October 2005
• Carcinogenicity of combined hormonal contraceptives and combined menopausal treatment
  Statement
  30 September 2005
• WHO Statement on hormonal contraception and bone health
  Weekly epidemiological record
  31 July 2005
• Statement on hormonal contraception and risk of STI acquisition
  8 July 2005
• The effects of contraception on obstetric outcomes
  31 December 2004

Policy and programmatic issues

• Provision of injectable contraceptives in Ethiopia through community-based reproductive health agents
  Bulletin of the World Health Organization - Volume 89, Number 8
  5 August 2011
• The TCu380A Intrauterine Contraceptive Device (IUD)
  Specification, prequalification and guidelines for procurement, 2010
  3 May 2011
• Long-term contraceptive protection, discontinuation and switching behaviour
  Intrauterine device (IUD) use dynamics in 14 developing countries
  25 March 2011
• Progress Report 2010. Reproductive health essential medicines: achievements, lessons learnt and next steps
  15 February 2011
• Medical eligibility criteria for contraceptive use
  Fourth edition, 2009
  26 September 2010
• Male latex condom. Specification, prequalification and guidelines for procurement, 2010
  1 September 2010
• Family planning for health and development: actions for change
  Meeting report
  1 May 2010
• Strategic considerations for strengthening the linkages between family planning and HIV/AIDS policies, programs, and services
  25 November 2009
• Community-based health workers can safely and effectively administer injectable contraceptives
  Conclusions from a technical consultation
  23 September 2009
• Community-based providers in rural Guatemala can provide the injectable contraceptive DMPA safely
  Social science policy brief
  18 August 2009
• Female condom technical review committee
  Report of a review committee
  31 December 2007
• The WHO Strategic Approach to strengthening sexual and reproductive health policies and programmes
  19 September 2007
• Glion consultation on strengthening the linkages between reproductive health and HIV/AIDS: family planning and HIV/AIDS in women and children
  31 December 2006
• The interagency list of essential medicines for reproductive health
  2006
  31 December 2006
• Essential medicines for reproductive health
  Guiding principles for their inclusion on national medicines lists
  19 March 2006
• Sexual and reproductive health and HIV/AIDS: a framework for priority linkages
  31 December 2005
• Hormonal Contraception and HIV: Science and Policy - Africa Regional Meeting, Nairobi 19–21 September 2005
  Statement
  24 October 2005
• Selected practice recommendations for contraceptive use
  Second edition
  31 December 2004
• The effects of contraception on obstetric outcomes
  31 December 2004
• Abortion and contraception in Romania: a strategic assessment of policy, programme and research issues
  31 December 2004
• Making decisions about contraceptive introduction : a guide for conducting assessments to broaden contraceptive choice and improve quality of care
  31 December 2002
• Integrating STI management into family planning services: What are the benefits?
  31 December 1999
• Post-abortion family planning: a practical guide for programme managers
  31 December 1997
• Community-based distribution of contraceptives : a guide for programme managers
  31 December 1995