Response to Austad: Offering a Range of Methods, Including Fertility Awareness Methods, Facilitates Method Choice

Malarcher, S; Fabic, Madeleine Short; Spieler, Jeff; Starbird, Ellen H.; Kenon, Clifton; Jordan, Sandra

doi:10.9745/ghsp-d-16-00115

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“…NFP is mostly criticized because the limited effectiveness for postponing pregnancy. Contraceptive effectiveness is a “crucial concern to family planning program managers and potential contraceptive users” (Malarcher et al 2016, 346). The effectiveness of NFP for postponing pregnancy remains a debatable issue.…”

Section: Mistakes In Equating Nfp With Fabmmentioning

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“…But effectiveness is only one criterion of family planning. There are many other aspects that couples prioritize when choosing family planning method such as side effects, level of medical intervention, and return to fertility (Malarcher et al 2016, 349). Whereas contraceptive methods block, suppress, or destroy fertility, NFP helps couples to live with and recognize the gift of fertility.…”

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Anthropological and Methodical Differences of Natural Family Planning and Fertility Awareness–based Methods

2019

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The term natural family planning (NFP), both in the scientific terminology and in the practical language of health policy, is often referred to as natural contraception or fertility awareness–based methods (FABM). “NFP. A guide to providing services,” issued by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 1988, presents NFP as a method inconsistent with any other contraceptive method but later published “Family Planning, a Global Handbook for Providers,” wherein NFP is not presented as a stand-alone method group but is grouped with FAB methods, which are combined with barrier contraception active during the fertile phase of a woman’s menstrual cycle if there is a desire to postpone pregnancy. In other words, the WHO family planning recommendations present FABM as one group of contraceptive methods. The WHO is the directing and coordinating authority on international health within the United Nations’ system. For these obvious reasons, the article mostly concentrates on WHO definition of FAMB. This article presents the anthropological and methodological differences between NFP (including and modern NFP methods that employ urinary hormone metabolite detection) and FABM and, through comparative analysis, determines that NFP is synonymous with neither FABM nor any of the methods of this group but is rather a distinct group of family planning methods. Summary: The term natural family planning (NFP), both in the scientific terminology and in the practical language of health policy, is often referred to as natural contraception or fertility awareness-based methods (FABM). The World Health Organization’s (WHO) is the directing and coordinating authority on international health within the United Nations’ system. WHO family planning recommendations present FABM as one group of contraceptive methods For these obvious reasons the article mostly concentrates on the WHO definition of FAMB. The article presents the anthropological and methodological differences between NFP and FABM and, through comparative analysis, determines that NFP is synonymous with neither FABM nor any of the methods of this group but is rather a distinct group of family planning methods.

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confidence: 99%

Anthropological and Methodical Differences of Natural Family Planning and Fertility Awareness–based Methods

2019

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“…The USAID authors then responded in another article by writing that family planning programs should be based on helping women choose the method that they want and not based on what the health provider or the health system wants (Malarcher et al 2016b). They mentioned that there are many women and couples who would prefer to not have a medical or hormonal method.…”

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Response to Austad: Offering a Range of Methods, Including Fertility Awareness Methods, Facilitates Method Choice

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Anthropological and Methodical Differences of Natural Family Planning and Fertility Awareness–based Methods

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