Types of contraceptives
There are many types of contraceptives available today to allow individuals to choose the type of birth control that best fits their lifestyle and budget.
This chart showing the relative effectiveness of each method may be helpful when making your decision.
Contraceptive methods can be roughly divided into five types:
- Hormonal methods
- combined hormones (pill, patch, nuvaring)
- progestin-only (Depo-Provera, progestin-only pill)
- find out about continuous/extended use of combined hormonal contraceptives
- Barrier methods (chemical and physical)
- condoms (male condom, female condom)
- spermicides (VCF, foam, gel, sponge)
- diaphragm
- cervical cap
- sterilization (vasectomy, tubal ligation)
- Intrauterine Device (IUD) (copper (Nova-T), hormones (Mirena))
- Natural Methods
- Emergency Contraception
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