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This second edition of Family Planning Methods and Practice: Africa is the product of collaboration between African and American colleagues, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). It is a comprehensive reference on reproductive health and is written for family planning and reproductive health service providers in Africa. Some of the topics included are sexually transmitted infections, contraceptive methods, surgical contraception, and service delivery.

Contraceptive methods
Provides information about all available contraceptive methods.

• The effectiveness and safety of oral contraceptives, IUDs, injectables, implants, condoms, vaginal barriers and spermicides, fertility awareness methods, sterilization and other methods. 

• World Health Organization precautions to guide you in counseling about the most appropriate method for your client.

Surgical contraception
Provides information about the types of surgical contraceptive methods.

• Which type of tubal ligation procedure to perform.

• How to perform no-scalpel vasectomy.

Sexually transmitted infections
Provides information about sexually transmitted infections, treatments, and prevention efforts.

• How to prevent and manage HIV/AIDS, gonorrhea, chlamydia, ulcerative infections, and more.

• What you should understand about infertility — causes, prevention, and treatment.

Service delivery
Provides information on properly serving clients' contraceptive and reproductive health needs.

• How to organize family planning services to best suit your clients' needs.

• The key issues to include in clinic protocols.

• Which management techniques to use for effective staffing, maintaining adequate supplies, and ensuring optimal storage of contraceptive products.

Family Planning Methods and Practice: Africa is available here by downloading each chapter in PDF format, or for faster modems download the entire Family Planning Methods and Practice: Africa publication (PDF 2,845KB).
 

Foreword, Preface, Acknowledgment, Contributors		View/download PDF 46KB
I. The African Context
1	Benefits of Family Planning	View/download PDF 75KB
2	Traditional Practices	View/download PDF 47KB
3	Dynamics of Reproductive Behavior and Population Change	View/download PDF 61KB
4	Adolescent Women and Reproductive Health	View/download PDF 95KB
II. Sexually Transmitted Infections and Infertility
5	HIV, AIDS, and Reproductive Health	View/download PDF 193KB
6	Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs)	View/download PDF 131KB
7	Infertility	View/download PDF 101KB
III. Information for Providing and Using Contraceptives Effectively
8	The Menstrual Cycle and Disturbances	View/download PDF 71KB
9	Pregnancy Diagnosis	View/download PDF 85KB
10	Sexuality and Reproductive Health	View/download PDF 68KB
11	The Essentials of Contraception: Effectiveness, Safety, Noncontraceptive Benefits, and Personal Considerations	View/download PDF 87KB
IV. Contraceptive Methods
12	Lactation and Postpartum Contraception	View/download PDF 121KB
13	Combined Oral Contraceptives	View/download PDF 150KB
14	Norplant, Depo-Provera, and Progestin-only Pills (Minipills)	View/download PDF 151KB
15	Intrauterine Devices (IUDs)	View/download PDF 190KB
16	Condoms	View/download PDF 67KB
17	Vaginal Barriers and Spermicides	View/download PDF 120KB
18	Fertility Awareness Methods (Natural Family Planning)	View/download PDF 191KB
19	Coitus Interruptus (Withdrawal)	View/download PDF 32KB
20	Abstinence	View/download PDF 33KB
21	Tubal Sterilization and Vasectomy	View/download PDF 191KB
V. Providing Family Planning Services
22	Post-abortion Care: Treating Complications and Providing Contraception	View/download PDF 56KB
23	Education and Counseling	View/download PDF 46KB
24	Clinical Implications of Management Decisions	View/download PDF 70KB
25	Approaches to Delivery of Family Planning Services	View/download PDF 63KB
26	Effectively Managing Your Family Planning Program	View/download PDF 121KB
27	Providing Quality Family Planning Services	View/download PDF 87KB
28	Future Technologies	View/download PDF 26KB
Glossary		View/download PDF 72KB
Index		View/download PDF 53KB

Date last reviewed: 03/21/2006
Content source: Division of Reproductive Health, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion