Information about Contraception and Reproductive Health
The Office of Population Research at Princeton University maintains this collection of documents and links about contraception and reproductive health.
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Selected contraception and reproductive health
websites
- Research Organizations
- Information and Education
- Canadian Women's Health Network
- Contraceptive Failure Rates
- Emergency Contraception Website (Princeton University)
- EngenderHealth (formerly AVSC International): access to voluntary and safe contraception
- Family of the Americas advocates the ovulation method of family planning and provides information on its use
- 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
- National Organization for Women (NOW) maintains an abortion rights and reproductive issues page
- OBGYN.net maintains a women's health information page
- Health Information and Publications Network (HIPNET) from Johns Hopkins' Center for Communications Programs
- 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
- Women's Health Interactive, an interactive information service
- World Health Organization contraception page
- Advocacy and Activism
- Advocates for Youth
- American Society for Emergency Contraception
- 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
- ChoiceLinkUp.com, a directory listing for information about reproductive health and rights
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EHealth4Teens promotes healthy lifestyle choices for teenagers and the use of the internet for self-research and for locating professional health services. A collection of links and health-related resources for teens
- The Feminist Majority Foundation
- Harlem Health Promotion Center's "EC as 1, 2, 3" project, funded by the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, aims to increase knowledge of and access to Emergency Contraception among youth
- 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
- 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
- Medical Students for Choice
- National Abortion Federation (NAF), a national association of abortion providers
- Physicians for Reproductive Choice and Health (PRCH)
- Products and Commercial Sites
- The Condom Connection offers an array of condoms for sale, as well as information about birth control and the prevention of STDs
- CondomMan is a low-cost online condom retailer, specializing in bulk sales
- Condomania promotes condom use and sells condoms and related products
- CondomHall is a student volunteer nonprofit organization that sells condoms and provides information on safer sex practices
- Condom Store sells a wide variety of condoms online
- 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
- 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
- Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH) works to improve women's and children's health
- Selected HIV/STI prevention websites
- American Red Cross HIV/AIDS education
- American Social Health Association is committed to stopping sexually transmitted diseases
- CDC's Division of HIV/AIDS Information
- CDC's Division of STD Information
- Center for AIDS Prevention Studies at the University of California at San Francisco
- Gay Men's Health Crisis (1-800-AIDS-NYC)
- UNAIDS
If you have any suggestions for resources to be added to this list, please forward them to: kcleland@princeton.edu
Last updated January 2010
OPR's Data Archive specializes in information about fertility and health surveys in the U.S. and developing countries.
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