How Well Does Birth Control Work
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1How well does birtH control work?
What is your chance
of getting pregnant?
No
hormones
really, really well
the implant
iUd
iUd
iUd
sterilization,
(nexplanon)
(skyla)
(Mirena)
(ParaGard)
for men and women
Works, hassle-free, for up to...
3 years
3 years
5 years
12 years
Forever
Less than 1 in 100 women
o.k.
the shot
the Pill
the Patch
the ring
(depo-Provera)
6-9 in 100 women,
For it to work best, use it...
Every. Single. Day.
Every week
Every month
Every 3 months
depending on method
Needed
for STD
protection!
Use with
not as well
any other
method
Fertility
condoms,
Pulling out
diaphragm
Awareness
for men or women
12-24 in 100 women,
For each of these methods to work, you or your partner have to use it every single time you have sex.
depending on method
FYI, without birth control,
This work by the UCSF School of Medicine Bixby Center and Bedsider is licensed as
over 90 in 100 young women
a Creative Commons Attribution - NonCommercial - NoDeriv 3.0 Unported License.
get pregnant in a year.
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