Sentences with phrase «using modern contraceptives»

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.

Women not using modern contraceptives may be practicing traditional (albeit less pleasant or less effective) means of birth control.

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.

Among adolescent women in developing regions who use modern contraceptives, the most common methods are male condoms (38 %) and the pill (27 %), followed by injectables (19 %), implants (8 %) and IUDs (5 %).10 In Africa, condoms account for half of modern contraceptive use reported by adolescent women, likely because of widespread awareness of HIV and other STIs.

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

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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).

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.

Modern contraception is, however, a much more pleasant alternative, and, used properly, can be more effective than the traditional methods of birth control (such as coitus interruptus, the rhythm method, or the local contraceptive potion).

In Africa alone, the continent with the highest fertility rate and lowest use of modern contraceptives, 26 countries will double their population by 2050, according to the U.N. «Fundamentally if you're looking at World Population Day, it is at heart a women's rights issue,» said Roger - Mark DeSouza director of population, environmental security and resilience at the non-partisan policy Wilson Center, based in Washington, D.C. World Population Day is meant to draw attention to the challenges we face with a human population that is constantly growing.

However, when we wipe out the beneficial bacteria — and they are extremely vulnerable to broad spectrum antibiotics, to the contraceptive pill, to steroid medications prescribed on a long term basis, in fact to the majority of modern drugs that are used on a repeat prescription basis — we end up with what is called gut dysbiosis (damaged gut flora).