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Chapter 10 - Evidence-Based Clinical Practice in Contraceptive Counselling and Care

from Section 2A - Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare: Contraception

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 January 2024

By
Sarah Sultana-Grixti ,
Olivia Anne Cassar  and
Charles Savona-Ventura
Edited by
Johannes Bitzer  and
Tahir A. Mahmood
Johannes Bitzer
Affiliation:
University Women's Hospital, Basel
Tahir A. Mahmood
Affiliation:
Victoria Hospital, Kirkcaldy
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Summary

The provision for access to contraceptive counselling and advice is today considered a basic human right. The 1994 United Nations International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) held in Cairo emphasized ‘the right of men and women to be informed and to have access to safe, effective, affordable and acceptable methods of family planning of their choice’. The guarantee that all individuals, particularly women, have access to available contraceptive information that is of good quality and coercion free opens the path towards gender equality while allowing women to control their life choices and fully participate in their community. The ICPD further reaffirmed that ‘the aim of family-planning programmes must be to enable couples and individuals to decide freely and responsibly the number and spacing of their children and to have the information and means to do so and to ensure informed choices and make available a full range of safe and effective methods’ [1].

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Textbook of Contraception, Sexual and Reproductive Health , pp. 71 - 76
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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