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  • Chapter 10 - Evidence-Based Clinical Practice in Contraceptive Counselling and Care

  • from Section 2A - Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare: Contraception
  • Edited by Johannes Bitzer, University Women's Hospital, Basel, Tahir A. Mahmood, Victoria Hospital, Kirkcaldy
  • Book:
    Textbook of Contraception, Sexual and Reproductive Health
    Published online:
    16 January 2024
    Print publication:
    25 January 2024, pp 71-76

  • Summary

    The provision for access to contraceptive counselling and advice is today considered a basic human right. The 1994 United Nations International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) held in Cairo emphasized ‘the right of men and women to be informed and to have access to safe, effective, affordable and acceptable methods of family planning of their choice’. The guarantee that all individuals, particularly women, have access to available contraceptive information that is of good quality and coercion free opens the path towards gender equality while allowing women to control their life choices and fully participate in their community. The ICPD further reaffirmed that ‘the aim of family-planning programmes must be to enable couples and individuals to decide freely and responsibly the number and spacing of their children and to have the information and means to do so and to ensure informed choices and make available a full range of safe and effective methods’ [1].