The contraceptive coil: something that gets a whole lot of airtime – but not much uptake. Around 3.1 million women in England take either the combined or mini contraceptive pill, while just 31.8% use ...

Did you know the copper coil is more effective than the morning-after pill as a form of emergency contraception?

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“It just feels like a sensible choice it if works for you,” says Jess* from Gloucestershire who has been on the coil for six years, having decided at 18 that she no longer wanted to be taking the ...

The coil is the world’s most widely used and inexpensive long-term reversible method of contraception. In Kenya, the varieties available include the Copper T, which is the commonest, the Nova T and ...

Contraception is a tricky one. It shouldn’t be, given that it’s 2017 and the pill was first introduced in 1961 (only to married women, mind you) but despite school sex education, our own experiences ...

These are very important as this is the only contraceptive that also provides protection from STIs (sexually transmitted infections such as chlamydia, gonorrhoea and HIV). Unless you are in a steady ...