Wednesday, August 25, 1999

Most common contraceptive methods

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EFFECTIVENESS, COST

CERVICAL CAP   • Effectiveness: 82 percent to 94 percent   • STD protection: Some   • Cost: $30 plus $30-$150 for fitting   DIAPHRAGM   • Effectiveness: 80 percent to 94 percent   STD protection: Some   Cost: $20 plus $50-$150 for fitting   BIRTH-CONTROL PILL   • Effectiveness: 99 percent   • STD protection: No   • Cost: $10-$20 a month   MALE CONDOM   • Effectiveness: 86 percent to 97 percent   • STD protection: Yes   • Cost: 50 cents each   FEMALE CONDOM   • Effectiveness: 79 percent to 95 percent   • STD protection: Yes   • Cost: $2.50 each   INTRAUTERINE DEVICE (IUD)   • Effectiveness: 98 percent to 99 percent   • STD protection: No   • Cost: $120-$160 plus $200-$300 lab/insertion costs   DEPO-PROVERA   • Effectiveness: 99 percent   • STD protection: No   • Cost: $35-$50 every three months   NORPLANT   • Effectiveness: 97 percent to 99 percent   • STD protection: No   • Cost: $600-$750; lasts up to five years   PREVEN   • Effectiveness: 92 percent   • STD protection: No   • Cost: $8-$15 each kit   SPERMICIDES   • Effectiveness: 79 percent to 96 percent   • STD protection: Yes   • Cost: 85-cent average/use   FERTILITY AWARENESS METHODS   • Effectiveness: 80 percent to 97 percent   • STD protection: No   • Cost: Free

        Among women who are trying to avoid pregnancy, surgical sterilization is still the most popular method of birth control. It involves severing and sealing the woman's fallopian tubes so that her eggs do not meet sperm. Sterilization is considered irreversible.

        The most common methods of contraception in the U.S. during 1995 among women ages 15-44 were:

        • Female sterilization: 18 percent.

        • Birth-control pill: 17 percent.

        • Condom: 13 percent.

        • Male sterilization (vasectomy by male partner): 7 percent.

        • Depo-Provera injection: 2 percent.

        • Periodic abstinence/natural family planning: 2 percent.

        • Withdrawal: 2 percent.

        • Norplant implant: 1 percent.

        • Diaphragm: 1 percent.

        • Female condom: less than 1 percent.

        • Other (morning-after pill, spermicidal products, cervical cap): 1 percent.

        In all, 64 percent of women reported using some kind of birth control, and 36 percent used none, either because they already are surgically sterilized for noncontraceptive reasons, are pregnant, are trying to get pregnant, recently had a baby, are sexually inac tive or use nothing. Source: U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

       

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