The Population Foundation of India has urged a shift away from population control towards informed choice, equity and demographic preparedness, as India navigates changing population trends and their ...

India proposes boxed warnings on emergency contraceptive pills, clarifying that they neither cause abortion nor prevent sexually transmitted infections.

A Lancet trial found that eight-weekly HIV injections kept adolescents suppressed better than daily tablets. The findings ...

Maternal deaths in Afghanistan could rise by 50% this year. After the Taliban's ban on contraception, women are being forced to give birth without doctors, miscarrying without treatment, and losing ...

Emergency contraception containing mifepristone prevents more pregnancies with fewer side effects than some other common ...

Compared to levonorgestrel (a common emergency contraception pill), mifepristone probably results in fewer pregnancies. It is also probably more effective at preventing pregnancy than the Yuzpe method ...