Articles Tagged With: Condoms
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It Is a New Day for Reproductive Providers
For many in the fields of family planning and reproductive health, it is a new day — but it is not going to be a better day.
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Study: LARC Use Does Not Increase STI Rates Among Young People
New research shows that long-acting reversible contraceptives are not a factor in the nation’s rising STI rates.
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Intervention Focuses on Contraceptives and Reproductive Life Plan for Teens
Teen mothers need tangible support to help them with their contraceptive decisions and to prevent unintended rapid-repeat births, according to recent research. The AIM 4 Teen Moms program is a future-oriented behavioral intervention that can help influence teen mothers’ attitudes, intentions, and contraceptive use and behaviors. -
Suggestions for Sexual and Contraceptive Education for People with Disabilities
Clinicians can do more to improve contraceptive and sexual education for patients with disabilities, including youth. A big first step is acknowledging patients are interested in healthy intimate relationships, and sometimes also in preventing pregnancy. -
Providers Can Improve Condom Messaging to Patients
Reproductive health providers could help patients better understand their risks of both pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections (STIs) by asking nonjudgmental questions about their sexual activity, and offering testing for STIs and a vaccine for HPV. -
CDC Study Shows Low Condom Use Among LARC Users
Women increasingly are using long-acting reversible contraception (LARC). But LARC users might also be forgoing condoms, the only contraceptive that protects against most sexually transmitted infections, the results of a recent study suggest. -
Intervention Reduces Positive STI Tests and Increases Condom Use
A culturally tailored intervention for a particularly vulnerable group of Black women has reduced the odds of testing positive for a sexually transmitted infection and increased condom use in vaginal or anal intercourse, the authors of a recent study found.
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Ask Women if They Use More than One Contraceptive Method
Nearly one out of five women used two or more methods of contraception the last time they had sexual intercourse, researchers found. Specifically, 18% of women ages 15 to 44 years who had used some form of contraception at last intercourse said they used two or more methods. Condoms and another method were the most commonly used method among dual users (58%). But women also reported using the withdrawal method, or a long-acting reversible contraceptive and another method that did not include condoms or withdrawal. -
Pregnancy Risk Increases When Young Women Travel
Although most international trips, including students’ study abroad programs, were put on hold in 2020, these might resume this year after the COVID-19 vaccine reaches student populations. Reproductive health providers can help young women prepare for the contraceptive needs and uncertainties of travel. A new study revealed that young female travelers overwhelmingly say they will be abstinent during their travels, but their actual experience is the opposite.
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Why Has the Female Condom Not Been Widely Adopted in the United States?
Contraceptive Technology Update asked two researchers involved in a new study about female (internal) condom use to answer some questions about the use of this contraceptive method in the United States.