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Expanding contraceptive options.
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Spieler, Jeff |
| Copyright Year | 1989 |
| Abstract | The goals of Family Health International (FHI) have been to introduce a variety of birth control options to people in developing countries, and to provide information to the user on the advantages and disadvantages of each method. FHI has worked with many developing countries in clinical trials of established as well as new contraceptive methods. These trials played an important part in making 2 sterilization procedures, laparoscopy and minilaparotomy popular for women. Further research improved the methods and have made them the most popular in the world, chosen by 130 million users. FHI is doing clinical trials on a new IUD, that is a copper bearing T-shaped device called the TCu380A. they have collected data on over 10,000 women using IUD's and early analysis indicates TCu380A is more effective than others. FHI is also evaluating devices such as Norplant that will prevent pregnancy up to 5 years by implanting the capsules in the arm. More than 8,000 women are being tested to determine the acceptability of implants in different geographical locations. Other research groups are doing work in 10 additional countries: Bangladesh will expand its program to 24,000 women and Nepal to 8,000 women. Trials are also being conducted on progestogen pills, since they do not lesson the volume of milk in breast feeding. FHI has also worked to introduce creative community-based distribution channels. In one case, specially trained health workers delivered contraceptives door-to-door in over 150,000 households. They found that 2 of 3 women accepted the pills and in a follow up survey 90% were still using them. FHI is now focusing on ways to improve moving new contraceptives from clinical testing on everyday use. They will coordinate training programs, educational material, media campaigns, and efforts with other international organizations, government agencies, and family planning groups. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| PubMed reference number | 12283021 |
| Journal | Medline |
| Volume Number | 11 |
| Issue Number | 1 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://fpconference.org/2009/media/DIR_169701/15f1ae857ca97193ffff8345ffffd524.pdf |
| Journal | Network |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
