"Modern contraceptives" refer to the latest methods or tools used by individuals or couples to prevent pregnancy or control their fertility. These can include various types of birth control that are effective, safe, and easily accessible in today's world.
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The proportion of adolescent women in need who are not using
modern contraceptive methods is higher in Asia (69 %) and Africa (68 %) than in Latin America and the Caribbean (36 %).10 In all regions, unmet need is higher among adolescent women wanting to avoid pregnancy who live in rural areas and who live in poorer households.
Voluntary family planning programs typically subsidize, advertize, or otherwise promote the use
of modern contraceptive technologies by sexually active couples (usually but not always partners in marriage).
By identifying and targeting social networks, health researchers have also designed education campaigns that reduced needle sharing in Baltimore and unprotected anal sex in Louisiana and Mississippi and increased the use of
modern contraceptives in Bangladesh.
It is by no means clear that this method measures either the unmet demand
for modern contraceptives, or the fraction of the female population exposed to unwanted pregnancy.
A cheap and readily available supply of
simple modern contraceptives can allow parents who wish to make use of them to improve their own level of comfort, and may also (by facilitating the spacing of births) improve family health chances — even if their adoption has no ultimate effect on the size of the family.
In developing countries, exclusive breastfeeding reduces total potential fertility as much as all
other modern contraceptive methods combined.
Yet 23 million of these adolescents have an unmet need for modern contraception: they are sexually active and want to avoid having a baby within the next two years but are not
using modern contraceptives.
Our primary search terms included men, husband (s), father (s), exclusive, breastfeeding, and LAM (lactational amenorrhea method —
a modern contraceptive method that requires full breastfeeding as one of the criteria for use).
There are more than 60 million women of reproductive age in the United States, and virtually all of them, regardless of religious affiliation, will use
a modern contraceptive method in their lives