Empowering Your Reproductive Health: A Guide to Contraception and Family Planning

Contraception is concerned with methods or devices that prevent pregnancy. It includes options ranging from hormonal pills, implants, intrauterine devices, barrier methods to sterilisation. These methods give people more power to control when or if they become pregnant. Family planning is a wider concept. It is a process through which individuals and couples prepare and space their children considering the desired number of births. Family planning promotes responsible parenting and supports everything relating to maternal and child health. This ensures that pregnancies are intended and welcomed.