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A San Antonio doctor explains why she denies birth control to single women. Also, fighting against maternal mortality, and how our sex lives are affected by the recession.
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By Amie Newman, Managing Editor November 5, 2009 - 3:29pm
Confused about condoms and which brands are best? Consumer Reports rolls out the results of their latest testing for you.
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Condoms are affordable, easy to use with the proper instruction, and extraordinarily effective in preventing both STDs, including HIV, and pregnancy if used consistently and correctly. Why aren't more of us using them?
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No one method is 100% effective in perfect or typical use over time. In typical use, condoms are around 85% effective, or present a 15% risk of pregnancy. But in perfect use, they're about 98% effective, or present about a 2% risk of pregnancy.
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Past "population control" efforts often trampled human rights. So talk about condom distribution as causes concern among liberals. Can we overcome history to create new solutions?
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By Joe Veix, RH Reality Check September 18, 2009 - 1:44pm
A school in Massachusetts is battling parental opposition
to their contraception policy.
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In the Caribbean, where HIV is a public health crisis, government, media, business and NGOs have responded with frank and open talk about prevention. In the U.S., by contrast,
56,000 newly diagnosed cases of HIV a year get scant notice.
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By Joe Veix, RH Reality Check August 24, 2009 - 9:13am
A new book called The Pill: Are
You Sure It's For You? reexamines the pill, questioning its use as a default contraceptive.
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By Joe Veix, RH Reality Check August 14, 2009 - 11:43am
A safe-sex exhibition in China has taken to offbeat methods to promote the use of condoms.
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By Joe Veix, RH Reality Check July 20, 2009 - 3:03pm
A roundup of the most sustainable methods of birth control.
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