CONTENTS
- Combined Oral Contraceptives
- Progestin-Only Pills
- Progestin-Only Injectables
- Combined Injectables
- Norplant Implants
- Copper-Bearing IUDs
- Female Sterilization
- Vasectomy
- Lactational Amenorrhea Method
- Natural Family Planning
- Barrier Methods
- How to Be Reasonably Sure the Woman Is Not Pregnant
- Importance of Selected Procedures for Providing Family Planning Methods
- WHO Medical Eligibility Criteria
- Bibliography
October 1996
This issue presents a condensation of: Technical Guidance/Competence Working Group. Recommendations for updating selected practices in contraceptive use, 1994 and 1997; and a table summarizing: World Health Organization. Improving access to quality care in family planning: Medical eligibility criteria for contraceptive use, 1996.
Bryant Robey, Editor. Stephen M. Goldstein, Managing Editor, Design by Linda D. Sadler. Production by Merridy Gottlieb and Peter Hammerer.
The collaboration of the following is appreciated: Secretariat of the Technical Guidance/Competence Working Group: Marcia A. Angel, Douglas H. Huber, James D. Shelton, and Roberto Rivera; its editors Kathryn M. Curtis, Patricia L. Bright, and Monica Gaines; and Q.M. Islam and Meena Cabral, WHO Family Planning and Population Unit.
Suggested citation: Technical Guidance/Competence Working Group and World Health Organization/Family Planning and Population Unit. Family planning methods: New guidance, Population Reports, Series J, No. 44. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Population Information Program, October 1996.
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