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Searching for male-centered information to boost your facilitys services to men?
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Your next patient is a young woman who has pressed for an appointment Monday morning after her boyfriends condom broke on Sunday night. Your formulary calls for use of progestin-only emergency contraception pills (ECPs). What is your next step?
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New developments are arising on the vasectomy front, with researchers taking a look at the effectiveness of different methods of vas deferens occlusion and identifying chemical candidates to help speed up time to vasectomy success.
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When you review birth control options with your female patients, you tick off several items: a shot, a patch, an intravaginal ring, intra-uterine devices, barrier methods, and several types of pills.
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From adolescence on, most men need information and counseling about sexual and reproductive matters, and they need somewhere reliable to go for related education and health care.
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Review the number of services offered at your family planning agency, then check off the number that address the reproductive health needs of men. If your agency is like most of the facilities participating in a recently published survey, you may be serving some male patients, but doing very little to recruit more.
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Will adding male programs to existing family planning services subtract from existing care?
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What is your clinics protocol when it comes to emergency contraception (EC)? New research indicates that because the Yuzpe EC regimen of combined oral contraceptives (OCs) is at least partially effective when started up to 120 hours after unprotected intercourse, current protocols may be too restrictive.1
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Frequent menstruation is a relatively new biologic state that has emerged as societies have evolved from hunting and gathering to industrialization.
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At the end of May, President Bush signed into law the United States Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Act, which is sweeping legislation designed to provide relief for HIV/AIDS in Africa and the Caribbean and authorizing funding of up to $15 billion over five years.