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Information on Birth Control Methods, Pills, IUD

What is birth control?

Birth control is a deliberate action to reduce or prevent a woman to become pregnant or to give birth through medications. The mechanism and technicality of the medications is refers to contraception, which reduces the occurrence or curtails the union of an ovum and a spermatozoon for the fertilization. This method and purposive intention is termed as birth control and considered as an ingredient to family planning.  This practice is done to control population explosion in various countries by making it very compulsory or simply through awareness without any compulsion. Birth control is the controversial issue in ethical and political ground among different religious and cultural groups. Abortion is significantly more controversial than general mechanism of contraception. Abortion differs from contraception in that former terminates the established pregnancy of a woman while in the later prevents the chances of fertilization.

Birth control is a deliberate action to reduce or prevent a woman to become pregnant or to give birth through medications. The mechanism and technicality of the medications is refers to contraception, which reduces the occurrence or curtails the union of an ovum and a spermatozoon for the fertilization.. This method and purposive intention is termed as birth control and considered as an ingredient to family planning.  This practice is done to control population explosion in various countries by making it very compulsory or simply by awareness without any compulsion. Birth control is the controversial issue in ethical and political ground among different religious and cultural groups. Abortion is significantly more controversial than general mechanism of contraception. Abortion differs from contraception in that former terminates the established pregnancy of a woman while in the later prevents the chances of fertilization
Birth control Method

  • Sexual absitinence or celibacy
  • Non- veginal sex.
  • sexual act or intercourse without penetration.
  • Oral sex or anal sex
  • There are barrier methods called spermicide

          I. Condom (male and female)
           II. Diaphragm
           III.Cervical cap
           IV.Lea’s shield
            V.Contraceptive sponge

  • Birth control chemical methods
    • Combined uses of progesterone & estrogen:

I.Combined oral contraceptive pill
               II.Contraceptive patch
               III. Lunelle  (monthly injection)
               IV.Contraceptive vaginal ring

    • Exclusive uses of progesterone:
  • Implants (such as Implanon or Norplant)
  • Depo Provera (injection every three months)
  • Progesterone pill only (POP)

(As emergency contraception most of the combined pills and POPs are taken in high doses)

  • Intrauterine methods
    • Intrauterine Device("IUD") method can be used for emergency or immedieate contraception.
    • IntraUterine System ("IUS")
  • Awareness or motivation on fertilty,it is also sometimes known as Natural familys planning
    • Basal body temperature
    • Billings ovulation method
    • Creighton Model
  • Rhythm Method
  • Lactational Amenorrhea Method (LAM)
  • Abortion methods
    • Chemical aborton
    • Herbal abortifacients
    • Surgical abortion
  • Surgical sterilization
    • Vasectomy for men
    • Tubal ligation for women
  • Experimental male contraceptives (future alternatives application and uses for  condoms and vasectomy)

What is the effectiveness of birth control?

It is experienced that the most effective methods for birth control are those which do not depend on regular user application or action. Intrauterine devices (IUDs)  and surgical sterilization are found to be successful and effective because the failure rate is just less than 1% per year. The other methods can be be effective if used concretely, correctly and consistently. and correctly. The failure rate increases due to ineffective and incorrect application and usage of the user, for an examlpe , use failure rates of hormonal contraceptives are high as 8% per year. Observational and rhythm methods that is fertility awareness) have failure rates as high as 25% per year. Cervical barriers and condoms  such as the diaphragm have same typical user’s failure rates about 15% to 16 % respectively.
The effectiveness of the birth control methods also can be judged by it action against sexual transmitted  infection or diseases.  

Action and protection against sexually-transmitted infections

All the methods of birth control do not have potentiality to protect against sexually-transmitted infections. The male latex condom has some  protecting capablity against some of sexual transmitted  diseases (STD) only if it is used correctly and consistently by the user. The female condom to have some kind of protective action towards STD that passes through  sin to skin  friction and contact, as the outer ring of the female condom covers more exposed skin than the male condom.

But over all information, knowledge and awareness about the  products is important to ensure its security and effectiveness for birth control and protection against sexual transmitted diseases.

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