Articles Tagged With: LARC
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Long-Acting Reversible Contraception: Progress Made, but Challenges Remain
In 2002, just 2.4% of U.S. women using birth control were using long-acting reversible contraceptive (LARC) methods, such as the intrauterine device or the contraceptive implant. By 2014, about 14% of women using birth control reported LARC use.
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Check Your Clinical Practice for LARC Methods
The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists now recognizes immediate postpartum placement of either the intrauterine device or the contraceptive implant as a best practice because of the long-acting reversible contraceptive methods’ role in preventing rapid repeat and unintended pregnancy
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Beyond Efficacy: Applying a Reproductive Justice Framework to Contraceptive Counseling for Young People
A counseling approach that supports bodily autonomy, dignity, and agency of persons works toward ensuring reproductive justice.
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Training Can Help Integrate LARC Options Into Contraceptive Care
Research from the Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health at the University of California, San Francisco, and Planned Parenthood Federation of America indicates that a four-hour training intervention can significantly affect the likelihood that healthcare providers will integrate long-acting reversible contraceptives into their clinical care.
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Programs Aim to Make LARC a Choice for Women
The success of the Contraceptive CHOICE Project in removing financial barriers to contraception, promoting the most effective methods of birth control, and reducing unintended pregnancy is no longer an isolated event.
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Time to Update Your Knowledge of Long-Acting Reversible Contraceptives
Practice bulletin says intrauterine, implant options are safe and effective for almost all women.
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Data Indicate Efficacy of Liletta IUD for Four Years’ Use
Four-year data from the ongoing multicenter, U.S.-based pivotal trial of the 52 mg Liletta levonorgestrel-releasing intrauterine device (IUD) indicate its safety and efficacy for four years of use in nulliparous and parous women, as well as in non-obese and obese women.
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More Teens Using Contraception, Data Show
While more relying on IUDs and other methods, pill use remains common
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Reproductive Rights in 2017: Standing Strong for Women
The evidence strongly suggests that comprehensive family planning services provided under the Affordable Care Act that include subsidized coverage for highly effective long-acting reversible contraception have contributed to a decrease in the rate of unintended pregnancy and a sharp decline in abortions. As women’s healthcare providers, we should be leaders in standing up to policy changes that will endanger women and threaten our most vulnerable citizens.
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Extending Life of LARCs: More Years for Your Implant
An international study found that continued use of an etonogestrel contraceptive implant for up to five years, two years longer than the current labeling approval, did not increase the risk of pregnancy.