Contraceptive Counseling

What providers need to know about the 2024 YouR HeAlth Survey to improve contraception and abortion access for young people.

Ongoing support for forgoing Rh testing in early pregnancy, medication abortion before six weeks, provider bias on contraceptive counseling adolescents, and local anesthesia before procedural abortion.

New study highlights how providers and parents can improve reproductive well-being with trusted information.

U.S. MEC and U.S. SPR, standard dosing of UPA EC for people of all body sizes, birth control information on TikTok, and safety of medication abortion without screening ultrasound.

Doctor-messengers are valuable communicators about abortion, impact of the shot on medication abortion efficacy, common misconceptions about IUDs, and precoital EC.

Answers for health care providers about prescribing extended contraception supplies.

Patient characteristics of IUD placement under sedation, two studies on EC efficacy, substance use and anxiety among patients seeking an abortion, and genital herpes prevalence.

A patient-centered decision aid for tubal sterilization counseling, IUD self-removal experiences, and counseling about pain and medication abortion.