CONTENTS

        Chapters
  1. Background
  2. IUD Performance
  3. Insertion
  4. Removal
  5. Infection
  6. Worldwide Use
  7. IUDs in Family Planning Programs

HIGHLIGHTS

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Volume XXIII, Number 5
December 1995
Timing of Insertion
IUD insertion is safe and effective at any time during the menstrual cycle (70, 90, 375, 426, 437). An international study of about 12,000 women who had IUDs inserted at different times during their menstrual cycles and similar US studies found no advantage to the conventional practice of insertion during the first five days of the menstrual cycle (70, 91, 426). Thus, when it is reasonably sure that a woman is not pregnant, the best time to insert an IUD is when she comes to the health center to request it (398).

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