Family Planning Counseling in Dubai
Family Planning
Contraception includes all methods to prevent conception and thus regulate fertility. Each method prevents pregnancy in a different way. The contraceptive methods may be:
- Temporary for spacing the first pregnancy or spacing between two child births
- Permanent (sterilization) for limiting the family after achieving the desired family size
There are different methods of contraception:
- Long-acting reversible contraception (LARC) which includes the intra uterine device, which lasts for three, five or ten years or the implant, which lasts for five years.
- Hormonal Contraceptives which include two types of pill – combined oral contraceptive pill, progestogen-only contraceptive pill
- Barrier methods that include condoms and internal condoms
- Emergency contraception options include the emergency contraceptive pill (ECP) or a copper IUD
- Permanent contraception by vasectomy and tubal litigation