Researchers have found that funding cuts affect groups that promote contraception use and other pregnancy prevention methods.
Jennifer Hettema, an associate research professor at the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, which has been developing better outreach and pregnancy prevention methods for Native American and Latino teen groups, told Reveal, "We are just reeling.
The discussions focused on women's attitudes towards existing sexual and reproductive health products, including HIV/STI and pregnancy prevention methods and lubricants, attitudes towards using a new STI prevention product, self-reported risk factors for HIV, STIs, and pregnancy.
Improving utilization of effective pregnancy prevention methods in a consistent manner can avert the existing high level of unintended pregnancy among female sex workers.
It is perhaps no surprise that all of this attention on women's sexual rights, combined with the widespread uptake of oral contraceptives - the "pill," the first entirely female-controlled method of pregnancy prevention - found Planned Parenthood once again at the center of a firestorm, of which I was blissfully unaware on my first visit to Planned Parenthood.
Even though, LAPMs are effective and convenient method of pregnancy prevention for users, the prevalence of LAPMs remains relatively small with only accounts of 3.9%% (EDHS 2011) and sometimes missing component of national reproductive health and family planning programs [ 10, 11].
Risky sexual practice was defined as having sexual contact history with causal partners, multiple regular partners or experiencing unprotected sex (having sex without condom or without any method of pregnancy prevention) or all the stated definitions in the past two years.
The Youth Peer Provider model seeks to address these issues, helping young people provide information and access to modern pregnancy and STD prevention methods.
Long-acting reversible contraception is more effective for pregnancy prevention than shorter-acting contraceptive methods and has the potential to reduce healthcare disparities and costs.
