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Highlights

  • Roe v. Wade Overturned
  • COVID-19 impact
  • Reproductive Health Impact Study
  • Adding It Up
  • Abortion Worldwide
  • Guttmacher-Lancet Commission
  • U.S. policy resources
  • State policy resources
  • State legislation tracker

Reports

  • Global
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Articles

  • Global research
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  • Policy analysis
  • Guttmacher Policy Review
  • Op-eds & external blogs

Fact Sheets

  • Global
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  • U.S. State Laws and Policies

Data & Visualizations

  • Data center
  • Infographics
  • Public-use data sets

Peer-Reviewed Journals

  • International Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health
  • Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health

Global

  • Abortion
  • Contraception
  • HIV & STIs
  • Pregnancy
  • Teens

U.S.

  • Abortion
  • Contraception
  • HIV & STIs
  • Pregnancy
  • Teens

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Global

Contraception

The Guttmacher Institute documents the need for, access to and use of contraceptives, as well as the impacts of that use, including the health, economic and social benefits of fulfilling the unmet need for contraception. The Institute’s research and advocacy work addresses the need to support investment in the development of new methods and in high-quality, affordable family planning services that provide access to a full range of methods, comprehensive and accurate information, and effective counseling.

  • Costs and Benefits
  • News Release

    Provision of Essential Sexual and Reproductive Health Care Would Reduce Unintended Pregnancies, Unsafe Abortions and Maternal Deaths by About Two-Thirds

  • Policy Analysis

    When Antiabortion Ideology Turns into Foreign Policy: How the Global Gag Rule Erodes Health, Ethics and Democracy

  • Fact Sheet

    Investing in Sexual and Reproductive Health in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

Top Facts & Statistics

  • 43%

    of adolescent women in LMICs who want to avoid a pregnancy have an unmet need for modern contraception
  • $3.00

    reduction in cost of maternal, newborn and abortion care for every $1 spent on contraceptive services beyond the current level
  • 49%

    pregnanies in LMICs are unintended

Resources

  • July 2010 Report

    Benefits of Meeting the Contraceptive Needs of Ethiopian Women

    Aparna Sundaram, Michael Vlassoff, Akinrinola Bankole, Lisa Remez and Yirgu Gebrehiwot

    Global

    • Contraception
  • July 2010 Report

    Unsafe Abortion in Zambia

    Ndonyo Likwa, Ann Biddlecom and Haley Ball

    Global

    • Abortion
    • Contraception
    • Pregnancy
  • June 2010 Report

    Barreras para la Maternidad Segura en México

    Fatima Juárez, José Luis Palma, Susheela Singh and Akinrinola Bankole

    Global

    • Abortion
    • Contraception
    • Pregnancy
  • May 2010 Fact Sheet

    Facts on Barriers to Contraceptive Use In the Philippines

    Global

    • Contraception
  • April 2010 Fact Sheet

    Facts on Unintended Pregnancy and Abortion in Ethiopia

    Global

    • Abortion
    • Contraception
    • Pregnancy
  • January 2010 Report

    Las Necesidades de Salud Sexual y Reproductiva de las Adolescentes en México: Retos y Oportunidades

    Fatima Juárez, José Luis Palma, Susheela Singh and Akinrinola Bankole

    Global

    • Contraception
    • Pregnancy
    • Teens
  • December 2009 Report

    Adding It Up: The Costs and Benefits of Investing in Family Planning and Maternal and Newborn Health

    Susheela Singh, Jacqueline E. Darroch, Lori S. Ashford and Michael Vlassoff

    Global

    • Abortion
    • Contraception
    • Pregnancy
  • November 2009 Report

    Benefits of Meeting the Contraceptive Needs of Ugandan Women

    Michael Vlassoff, Aparna Sundaram and Akinrinola Bankole

    Global

    • Contraception
  • July 2009 Report

    Adolescent Marriage and Childbearing in India: Current Situation and Recent Trends

    Ann M. Moore, Susheela Singh, Usha Ram, Lisa Remez and Suzette Audam

    Global

    • Abortion
    • Contraception
    • HIV & STIs
    • Pregnancy
    • Teens
  • May 2009 Report

    Meeting Young Women’s Sexual and Reproductive Health Needs in Nigeria

    Gilda Sedgh, Akinrinola Bankole, Friday Okonofua, Collins Imarhiagbe, Rubina Hussain and Deirdre Wulf

    Global

    • Contraception
    • Teens

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While most unintended pregnancies are caused by nonuse of contraceptives, contraceptive failure is also a significant underlying cause. The Institute’s work on estimating contraceptive failure rates can help providers, program managers and policymakers to better assist women and couples to avoid contraceptive failure and have the number of children they desire at the time(s) that they feel ready and able to do so

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