Family Planning: A Global Handbook for Providers (2022 update)
This book serves as a quick-reference resource for all level of health care workers. It provides practical guidance on delivering family planning methods appropriately and effectively.
The Bone Health Consultation
Risk of STI acquisition
Clarification of WHO’s position on COC carcinogenicity
Progestogen-only contraceptive use during lactation and its effects on the neonate
Combined hormonal contraceptive use during the postpartum period. Geneva: WHO, 2010
The WHO Medical Eligibility Criteria Wheel for Contraceptive Use (2015)
The WHO Medical Eligibility Criteria Wheel for Contraceptive Use (2015) is a tool that makes it easy to identify medical eligibility for use of family planning methods.
The Selected Practice Recommendations for Contraceptive Use (3rd Edition 2016)
This resource provides guidance on how to use contraceptive methods safely and effectively, once they are deemed to be medically appropriate.
Decision Making Tools for Family Planning Clients and Providers, World Health Organization (WHO) and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Center for Communication Programs, Baltimore Maryland, INFO and Geneva, WHO, 2005.
The WHO Reproductive Health Library (RHL)
The WHO Reproductive Health Library (RHL) is an electronic review journal published by the Department of Reproductive Health and Research at WHO Headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. RHL takes the best available evidence on sexual and reproductive health from Cochrane systematic reviews and presents it as practical actions for clinicians (and policy-makers) to improve health outcomes,…
A Guide to Family Planning for Community Health Workers and Their Clients, World Health Organization , Geneva, WHO, 2012.
This simple counseling tool was adapted from WHO’s Decision-Making Tool for Family Planning Clients and Providers.
The Selected Practice Recommendations for Contraceptive Use (3rd Edition 2016).
This resource provides guidance on how to use contraceptive methods safely and effectively, once they are deemed to be medically appropriate.
The Medical Eligibility Criteria for Contraceptive Use (5th edition 2015)
This resource provides guidance on whether people with certain medical conditions can safely and effectively use specific contraceptive methods
