Contraceptive Technology Update – October 1, 2024

CDC Recommends New Pain Management Strategies for IUD Insertion

The 2024 U.S. Selected Practice Recommendations for Contraceptive Use are the first to address the pain many women experience when they are having an intrauterine device (IUD) inserted.

Revisions to CDC’s Two Contraceptive Guidelines Address Management of Side Effects

The latest updates to contraceptive guidelines by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) include recommendations for people with chronic kidney disease, human immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV) infection risk, chronic diseases, and conditions such as obesity, surgery, breastfeeding, and postabortion.

Digital Contraceptive Decision Aid Has Potential to Help Match Patients to Best Option

Providers and patients who would like a little help in contraceptive counseling and decision-making could use a new tool — a digital contraceptive decision aid — that could enhance women’s confidence and satisfaction with their contraceptive recommendation, new research shows.

LARC Use Can Affect Well-Woman Visits and STI Screening

Adolescent and young adult patients who select long-acting reversible contraception (LARC) attend fewer well-woman visits and have reduced testing for sexually transmitted infections (STIs), new research shows.

Perinatal Contraceptive Counseling Helps Patients Manage Reproductive Futures

Reproductive healthcare and contraceptive counseling have evolved in recent years to embrace patient-centered counseling and the reproductive justice framework. This focus should include the perinatal period, but that is not always the case, a new paper finds.

Strategies To Improve Contraceptive Counseling, Including for Prenatal Patients

Here are some strategies to improve contraceptive counseling for all patients, including those who are pregnant.

Structural Racism Affects Family Planning and Needs Combatting, Study Says

Family planning has been linked with racism for centuries, and this legacy impact on 21st-century patients needs to be addressed in family planning research, a new paper says.