Information about Contraception and Reproductive Health
The Office of Population Research at Princeton University maintains this collection of links about contraception and reproductive health.
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- Research Organizations
- Information and Education
- Bedsider provides information and support for birth control users
- Canadian Women’s Health Network
- Contraceptive Failure Rates
- Emergency Contraception Website (Princeton University)
- EngenderHealth promotes access to voluntary and safe contraception
- Go Ask Alice! is a health Q&A; online resource produced by Columbia University
- Kaiser’s statehealthfacts.org, online national and state-by-state data on demographics, health and health policy
- My Contraception Tool is a free service that helps individuals choose the best contraceptive method based on lifestyle, health factors, and personal preferences
- National Organization for Women (NOW) maintains an abortion rights and reproductive issues page
- Reproline at Johns Hopkins
- Resource Center for Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention (ReCAPP) provides program materials for teachers and health educators working with teens
- Scarleteen provides comprehensive information about sexuality for a young adult population
- Sex, Etc. is a web site written for teens, by teens, about sexuality and reproductive health (from Answer, Rutgers University)
- Sex Info Online is run by students at UC Santa Barbara, and provides information about human sexuality
- Sexwise provides information, discussion and advice (from the BBC World Service and International Planned Parenthood Federation)
- Teenwire, sexuality and relationship info for teens (from Planned Parenthood)
- Women on Web, a resource for women seeking access to safe medical abortion worldwide
- World Health Organization maintains a family planning page
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- Advocacy and Activism
- Advocates for Youth
- Back Up Your Birth Control is a campaign sponsored by the Reproductive Health Technology Project to promote emergency contraceptive use, and they occasionally make outreach materials available.
- California Family Health Council
- Campaign for Our Children is committed to reducing the incidence of teenage pregnancy
- Center for Reproductive Rights
- The Feminist Majority Foundation
- The International Consortium for Emergency Contraception website covers science, youth, crises, product access, and legal issues, case studies of EC introduction efforts around the world, a media section, and three searchable databases of scientific articles, client and provider materials, and listings of globally available EC products.
- International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF)
- International Women’s Health Coalition promotes women’s sexual and reproductive health and rights
- Marie Stopes International provides abortions services, contraception advice, sexually transmitted infection screening, and well-woman and well-man health screening in the United Kingdom
- MergerWatch fights to protect reproductive health services that are threatened by religious/secular hospital mergers. See their Pharmacy Refusal Toolkit.
- NARAL Pro-Choice America
- National Organization for Women
- Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA)
- RaisingHerVoice.org promotes EC access for survivors of sexual assault
- Reproductive Health Technologies Project (RHTP) provides information about reproductive health issues including emergency contraception, microbicide research, early abortion, and advocacy for reproductive rights.
- Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS)
- Professional Organizations
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- Abortion Clinics OnLine
- American College Health Association
- American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology (ACOG)
- American Medical Women’s Association
- American Society for Reproductive Medicine
- Association of Reproductive Health Professionals (ARHP)
- The European Society of Contraception and Reproductive Health
- Medical Students for Choice
- National Abortion Federation (NAF), a national association of abortion providers
- Physicians for Reproductive Choice and Health (PRCH)
- Society of Family Planning
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- International Training and Education
- Intrahealth International, Inc., at the UNC School of Medicine, assists developing countries to improve delivery of reproductive health services
- JHPIEGO, at Johns Hopkins University, assists the global training of reproductive health professionals
- Pathfinder International – a global leader in reproductive health
- Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH) works to improve women’s and children’s health
- Advocacy and Activism
- Products and Commercial Sites
- CondomMan is a low-cost online condom retailer, specializing in bulk sales
- Condomania promotes condom use and sells condoms and related products
- Pink Apple is a woman-focused website selling condoms and related products
- Rip N Roll sells a variety of condoms online and provides sexual health information
- UndercoverCondoms retails a wide variety of safe sex products and provides an educational forum for people to become informed on safer sex issues
If you have any suggestions for resources to be added to this list, please forward them to:
Last updated April 2012
OPR’s Data Archive specializes in information about fertility and health surveys in the U.S. and developing countries.
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