Exploring the Reasons for Dropouts of Injectable Contraceptive in Burdwan Municipal area, West Bengal, India: Beneficiaries’ and Service Providers’ Perspectives by Arif Hossain, Pramit Goswami, Kaushik Mitra, Pranita Taraphdar, Suman Sannigrahi, Soumik Dandapat

“…Introduction: The inclusion of the Injectable Contraceptive, Antara Programme into family planning services signals a shift in the nation’s perspective and helps recipients achieve their goals for reproductive health. …”
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Effect of High Population Growth Rate on Economic Performance in Kyanamira Sub-County Kabale District Uganda. by Aijuka, Godwin

“…The study recommended that family planning programs should be designed to provide information, services, and modern means of fertility control to those who are interested and the study recommended that the government should use several methods to control high population growth such as one or two children per family policy, girl child education through giving them scholarships.…”
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Trends in the levels, causes, and risk factors of maternal mortality in Pakistan: A comparative analysis of national surveys of 2007 and 2019. by Farid Midhet, Samina Naeem Khalid, Shehla Baqai, Shahzad Ali Khan

“…Women > 35 years and those expecting their first child were more likely to die from childbirth, while those who had ever used family planning had a lower risk according to the data for both years. …”
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Use of healthcare services during the COVID-19 pandemic in urban Ethiopia: evidence from retrospective health facility survey data by Getnet Alemu, Arjun S Bedi, Zemzem Shuka, Anagaw Mebratie, Matthias Rieger

“…The use of several MCH components (skilled birth attendant deliveries, immunisation, postnatal care) remains unaffected throughout the period while others (family planning services, antenatal care) experience a decline (8%–17%) in the immediate aftermath but recover soon after.Conclusion Concerns about the crowding out of MCH services due to the focus on COVID-19 are unfounded. …”
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Predicting pregnancy loss and its determinants among reproductive-aged women using supervised machine learning algorithms in Sub-Saharan Africa by Tirualem Zeleke Yehuala, Sara Beyene Mengesha, Nebebe Demis Baykemagn

“…The use of antenatal care and family planning services can significantly impact the risk of pregnancy loss. …”
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Correlates of Family Size and Household Farm Units in Kisoro District, Uganda by Ainembabazi, Ealyne

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De la cure des âmes à l’évangélisation des corps. Le CLER Amour et Famille : classes dominantes et morale sexuelle by Gauthier Fradois

“…Created in 1961 against the opening of the first centers of French Movement for Family Planning and backed by the Vatican’s millennial authority, this confessional association intervenes in schools in the private sector in order to dispense by an « emotional, relational and sexual education » representations of the family founded in kind. …”
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De l’émancipation à l’institutionnalisation : santé sexuelle et droits sexuels by Alain Giami

“…At the start of the 1970s, “sexual health” made headway in the World Health Organization; and UN organizations started considering that questions related to family planning and violence against women were human rights issues. …”
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Correction: Fetal echocardiographic parameters in pregnancies complicated by diabetes: a case control study by Amal Darwish, Maged Abdel-Raouf, Rasha Kamel, Emad Salah, Mai Salah, Ahmed Okasha

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Unintended Pregnancy and Associated Factors among Pregnant Women Attending Antenatal Care at Bako Tibe District Public Health Facility, Oromia Region, Ethiopia by Habtamu Bekele, Merga Dheressa, Bezatu Mengistie, Yitagesu Sintayehu, Gelana Fekadu

“…To decrease the current level of unintended pregnancy in the area, the Bako Tibe District Health Bureau and the health workers should work harder to scale up spousal communication on family planning.…”
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Emotional Focus Coping on Early Childhood Marriage Actors in Selayar by Andi Pramesti Ningsih

“…The data were obtained by means of in-depth interviews and focus group discussions with 12 informants consisting of teenagers who married at an early age, parents, health workers and family planning instructors. Domain analysis is used to identify semantic relationships in the data found. …”
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Retracted Article: Using bibliometrics to understand algorithmic finance by Hanan Qudah, Bassam Khalil Atallah Baqila, Jomana Mustafa Odah Albadienah, Mohammad Zakaria AlQudah, Shatha Al Qudah, Samer Alrahamneh, Ahmad Ababne, Ishraq Qudah

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Gouverner, soigner, éduquer (à) la sexualité : enjeux subjectifs de la « maternité adolescente » en Colombie by Gabriela Patino-Lakatos, María Cristina Tenorio

“…Based on a research experience carried out in Colombia, this article analyzes the psychic, intersubjective and cultural stakes of the relationship to contraception and motherhood during adolescence, in the face of the medical and educational discourse on family planning and, in the background, on the voluntary interruption of pregnancy. …”
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Hubungan Karakteristik Ibu dengan Pemilihan Kontrasepsi di Puskesmas Padang Pasir Padang by Abrar Jurisman, Ariadi ., Roza Kurniati

“…</em><em></em></p><strong><em>Keywords: </em></strong><em> contraceptive, IUD, family planning</em>…”
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A 41-Year-Old Patient with a Rare Cause of Severe Abdominal Sepsis Misdiagnosed as PID by Anastasia Mikuscheva, David Becker, Mark Thompson-Fawcett

“…In a patient who has not completed family planning, the diagnosis is often made with a low threshold and treatment started on a low suspicion of diagnosis to avoid a negative impact on fertility. …”
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Factors Determining Intention to Use Contraception Among Sexually Active Women in South Africa: A Multilevel Modelling Approach by Germinah Motshegwa, Mluleki Tsawe, Onalenna Legotlo, Marinkie Malatji, Shirley Mathabatha, Reamogetse Phateng, Kenneth Pule Tshabalala, Jaqueline Seima, Mary Berries, Tsholofelo Seokamo

“…Conclusion: The results showed that age, population group, parity, ideal number of children, desire to delay childbearing, exposure to family planning messages/advice, and province were key predictors of women’s intention to use contraception. …”
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Effects of autologous platelet-rich plasma in promoting endometrial thickness on patients with thin endometrium following IVF by Gita Pratama, Elizabeth Agustina, Atika Mahira Yanfaunnas, Mila Maidarti, Achmad Kemal Harzif, R. Muharam, Budi Wiweko

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Services availability and readiness assessment of adolescent sexual and reproductive health in primary healthcare facilities: evidence from selected districts in Ghana by Michel Adurayi Amenah, Jacob Novignon, Ama Pokuaa Fenny, Irene A. Agyepong, Tim Ensor

“…This framework focused on key domains including service availability and readiness, assessing aspects such as HIV testing, family planning, and availability of contraceptives and necessary staff training. …”
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Commensal bacteria education history calibrates the naivety and activation threshold of adaptive antiviral immune system by Baohua Li, Zhou Sha, Li Mou, Feng Zhang, Lifeng Jia, Yan Zhu, Yan Guo, Guohong Deng, Haibo Wu, Hong Wei, Yuzhang Wu, Lilin Ye, Changjiang Liu, Jian Li, Yanyan Zhang, Yanyan Zhang, Yanyan Zhang

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Policy expertise and culture: the case of “civil sexuality” in Iran. by Elaheh Mohammadi, Anna Durnova

“…In the analysis of the Iranian policy debate, civil sexuality serves to show how the government normalizes women’s sexual behavior as part of Islamic culture and how it integrates this into the Iranian family-planning program. The analysis shows that, despite an apparently progressive view on sexual health – demonstrated through sexual education, unprecedented acknowledgment of women’s sexual desire and encouragement of an active sexual role – in fact, the Islamic Republic is implementing an illiberal family program that serves its recent pronatalist and nationalist agenda. …”
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