Dear Isabella, Many women claim that family planning devices or even chemical substances (hormones) make them fat and hence avoid using them. However, only a few may get this problem and in most cases ...

A growing coalition of conservatives are speaking out against hormonal birth control, while promoting a more “natural” ...

After her first child, Aisha Nakanja made a decision not to use contraceptives. Besides her religious restrictions, she was scared of the consequences of modern contraceptive methods. “I had seen how ...

The Chairman of the Association for the Advancement of Family Planning, Dr Ejike Orji, has charged Christian and Muslim women to adopt modern family planning methods. Orji explained that the use of ...

Women wait outside the only maternity hospital in Srinagar, India, on July 10, 2008, a day ahead of World Population Day. (Mukhtar Khan/Associated Press) About 200 million women around the world ...

Egypt's Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS) said on Saturday that 66.4 percent of married women in the country use family planning methods, a 7.9 percent increase over the ...