Advancing contraceptive technology

Synonyms:

Developing family planning technologies
Evaluating contraceptive products
Exploring innovative fertility regulation techniques
Researching fertility control
Improving family planning techniques
Improving contraceptive technology
Developing contraceptive technology

Description:

Enhancing the appropriateness, effectiveness, safety, availability and delivery of technologies for health and family planning.

Implementation:

Research and development of new methods of contraception. Clinical trials on contraceptive products. Provision of technical assistance in initiating local production of health and contraceptive technologies. Encouragement of the growth of companies involved in providing family planning and sexual health products that meet the needs of people in developing countries. Bridge the gap between technologies of the developed world, and family planning needs of the developing nations; improve availability, effectiveness, safety, consumer acceptance and continued use of contraceptive products in developing countries.

Broader:

Improving
Advancing techniques
Developing new products
Improving family planning
Advancing family planning
Using reproductive technology
Sustaining industrial innovation
Enhancing scientific and technological research
Developing international competence in population planning

Narrower:

Monitoring contraceptive failure
Improving male contraceptive methods

Constrains:

Promoting natural family planning

Facilitates:

Promoting contraceptive use
Reducing individual fertility
Encouraging family planning schemes
Publicizing family planning methods

Facilitated by:

Evaluating family planning
Funding population programmes
Using innovative management techniques
Reviewing advances in medical technology

Problems:

Health hazards of artificial birth control
Inadequacy of contraceptive methods
Prohibitive cost of contraceptives

Values:

Fertility
Regulation
Infertility
Self-control

Organizations:

International Planned Parenthood Federation
PATH
Population Council
Family Health International
International Society for Advanced Contraception

References:

Kellhammer, U and Ãœberla, K: Long-Term Studies on Side-Effects of Contraception: state and planning: symposium of the study group 'Side-Effects of oral contraceptives, pilot phase', Munich 1977
Atkinson, Gary M and Moraczewski, Albert S: A Moral Evaluation of Contraception and Sterilization: a dialogical study
Hynes, H Patricia: Reconstructing Babylon: women and technology
Cosgrave, Patrick: Contraceptive Failure in the United States

Subjects:

Industry → Products
Research, Standards → Research
Research, Standards → Exploration
Research, Standards → Evaluation
Health Care → Birth control
Technology → Technology
Technology → Technical
Development → Development
Development → Reform

Type Classification:

F: Exceptional strategies

Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:

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