WHO Selected Practice Recommendations for Contraceptive Use

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World Health Organization
Selected Practice Recommendations for Contraceptive Use, 2002

This World Health Organization document provides selected practice recommendations based on the best available evidence and is intended to be used by policy-makers, programme managers, and the scientific community. It aims to provide guidance to national family planning/reproductive health programmes in the preparation of guidelines for service delivery of contraceptives.

Disclaimer, acknowledgements, abbreviations (3 pages - 62KB)
Executive summary (16 pages - 728 KB)
Recommendations (86 pages - 765 KB)
Participants (5 pages - 45 KB)

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This publication is reproduced with permission from the World Health Organization.

This document is the result of collaboration between the World Health Organization's Department of Reproductive Health and Research and a large number of International Agencies and organizations active in the field of family planning policies and programmes. The International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) and its International Medical Advisory Panel provided strong support for the meeting held in London, October 1 at IPPF Headquarters. Additional contributions were made by the following: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC); EngenderHealth; Family Health International (FHI); Georgetown University Medical Center; Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs; JHPIEGO Corporation; US National Institute of Child Health and Human Development: Program for International Training in Health (Intrah); and the United Nations Population Fund.

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Last Updated: 09 Jul 2003

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