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Introducing the low-dose pill to Bangladesh; issues of continuation and failure
S Salway1, V Fauveau, J Chakrabarty
1Centre for Population Studies, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
Abstract:
In response to government plans to introduce a low-dose pill to the national family planning program of Bangladesh, a comparison of the performance of low-dose and standard-dose pills among a rural Bangladeshi population was conducted. Continuation rates were found to be better among users of the low-dose pill and there was no evidence that failure rates were higher. The relative risk (standard-dose vs. low-dose) over the first 30 months following adoption was 1.25 for first method continuation, and 1.29 for extended use failure. This paper, thus, provides evidence that low-dose pills may be a suitable method of contraception for rural Bangladeshi women.
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