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  • Title: Contraception. Not as safe as you think.
    Journal: Asiaweek; 1992 May 22; 18(21):46. PubMed ID: 12286113.
    Abstract:
    The condom has generally been accepted as protective both against unwanted pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases. New evidence based on a study of 4000 women found that diaphragms were the most effective against gonorrhea and chlamydia having 65% and 72% less risk respectively. The contraceptive sponge lowered risk by 13% for chlamydia and 65% for gonorrhea. Condoms lowered risk only 3$ for chlamydia and 34% for gonorrhea. These findings were suggested by researchers to be due possibly to women's more consistent and efficient use of diaphragms and sponges, rather than the devices themselves. Another study of IUD use by WHO among 20,000 women on 5 continents showed that the risk of pelvic inflammation was higher in younger women and incidence of inflammation was greater during the first 20 days after IUD insertion. Incidence of inflammation decreased after the 20-day initial period of insertion. Of the 4000 users in the study from China, there were no reported cases of pelvic disease attributed to the IUD. Chinese women use 70% of the 84 million IUDs used worldwide. Prior reports from the 1970s and 1980s had identified the IUD as having an increased risk of pelvic inflammatory disease.
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