Family Planning Perspectives articles from January 1997

Family Planning Perspectives archives from January 1997

The provision of public-sector services by family planning agencies in 1995.
January 1, 1997... Results from a 1995 survey of a nationally representative sample of 603 publicly funded family planning agencies reveal that 96% rely on federal funding, 60% on state funding and 40% on local funding to provide family planning and other services....

Emergency contraception: a national survey of adolescent health experts.
January 1, 1997... In a survey of 167 physicians with expertise in adolescent health, 84% said they prescribe contraception to adolescents, but only 80% of these prescribe emergency contraception, generally a few times a year at most. Some 12% of respondents said...

Repeat abortions in Canada, 1975-1993.
January 1, 1997... In Canada, 20% of women who obtained an abortion between 1975 and 1993 had had at least one previous abortion. An analysis of data on 1.2 million abortions shows that the proportion of abortion patients undergoing repeat procedures increased from...

Public perceptions about unplanned pregnancy.
January 1, 1997... A nationally representative telephone survey in 1994 of 2,002 adults indicates that 60% believe that unplanned pregnancy is a very big problem in the United States, and virtually all (90%) say it is at least a somewhat big problem. Two-thirds...

Can statutory rape laws be effective in preventing adolescent pregnancy?
January 1, 1997... Recent studies indicate that at least half of all babies born to minor women are fathered by adult men.[1] In addition, there is a widespread perception that these young mothers account for the large increase in welfare caseloads over the last...

State actions on reproductive health issues in 1996.
January 1, 1997... In 1996, state actions in such diverse areas as health care, welfare reform, education and the environment attracted national attention as they increased the states' involvement in setting the country s social agenda. Many of these initiatives...

A risk-assessment tool for integrated reproductive health services.
January 1, 1997... Given the growing importance of the AIDS epidemic, and the contribution made by other sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) to the spread of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), offering STD and HIV services in family planning settings seems...

Use of invasive procedures during pregnancy may double risk of mother-to-infant HIV transmission.(human immunodeficiency virus)
January 1, 1997... Pregnant women infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) who undergo invasive procedures during pregnancy are twice as likely as other women to transmit the virus to their newborn, even after potentially confounding variables are...

Methotrexate with vaginal misoprostol is a safe, highly effective regimen for early medical abortion.
January 1, 1997... An injection of methotrexate followed after one week by vaginal administration of misoprostol is a highly effective method of early pregnancy termination with relatively few side effects. In a multicenter prospective study of women with...

Risk of perinatal problems raised by antidepressant use during pregnancy.
January 1, 1997... Infants born to women who take the antidepressant fluoxetine late in pregnancy may have an elevated risk of some perinatal complications. In a recent prospective study, infants exposed to the drug during the third trimester were significantly...

1995 U.S. fertility rate was lower than any since the mid-1980s.
January 1, 1997... U.S. women had 1% fewer births in 1995 than in 1994, and the fertility rate among all women aged 15-44 fell to its lowest level since 1986, according to preliminary data compiled by the National Center for Health Statistics.[1] Particularly...

Women who use barrier methods with spermicide may have higher risk of urinary tract infection.
January 1, 1997... Two recent studies suggest that use of spermicide may increase women's risk of urinary tract infection. The findings of a prospective study among university students and members of a health maintenance organization (HMO) in Washington State...