Contraceptive security
Encyclopedia
Contraceptive security is a situation in which people are able to reliably choose, obtain, and use quality contraceptives for family planning
and sexually transmitted disease
(including HIV
and AIDS
) prevention when they want them.
Organizations, usually government health agencies, work to ensure clients have long-term access to a range of high quality contraceptives and other essential health supplies. Measures taken to provide contraceptive security may include improving contraceptive distribution and availability, promoting product quality, and supporting commodities distribution across. Subsidized products, particularly condoms and oral contraceptives, may be provided to increase accessibility for low-income people. One problem encountered with this subsidization is that individuals who are able to pay regular retail price may chose to buy the discounted items, creating competition with private sector contraceptive distributors.
Family planning
Family planning is the planning of when to have children, and the use of birth control and other techniques to implement such plans. Other techniques commonly used include sexuality education, prevention and management of sexually transmitted infections, pre-conception counseling and...
and sexually transmitted disease
Sexually transmitted disease
Sexually transmitted disease , also known as a sexually transmitted infection or venereal disease , is an illness that has a significant probability of transmission between humans by means of human sexual behavior, including vaginal intercourse, oral sex, and anal sex...
(including HIV
HIV
Human immunodeficiency virus is a lentivirus that causes acquired immunodeficiency syndrome , a condition in humans in which progressive failure of the immune system allows life-threatening opportunistic infections and cancers to thrive...
and AIDS
AIDS
Acquired immune deficiency syndrome or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome is a disease of the human immune system caused by the human immunodeficiency virus...
) prevention when they want them.
Organizations, usually government health agencies, work to ensure clients have long-term access to a range of high quality contraceptives and other essential health supplies. Measures taken to provide contraceptive security may include improving contraceptive distribution and availability, promoting product quality, and supporting commodities distribution across. Subsidized products, particularly condoms and oral contraceptives, may be provided to increase accessibility for low-income people. One problem encountered with this subsidization is that individuals who are able to pay regular retail price may chose to buy the discounted items, creating competition with private sector contraceptive distributors.