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- Contraception - choices.
- Contraception - condoms for men.
- Contraception - emergency contraception.
- Contraception - female sterilisation.
- Contraception - implants and injections.
- Contraception - injections for men.
- Contraception - intrauterine devices.
- Contraception - the Billings method.
- Contraception - the pill.
- Contraception - vaginal ring.
- Safe sex.
- Sex - are you ready.
- Sex education - talking to young people.
- Sexually transmissible infections - overview.
- Sexually transmissible infections - signs and symptoms.
Related information on other websites
Family Planning Victoria.
Reach Out.
Victorian Government Health Information - Infectious Diseases - IDEAS.
National STI Campaign.
References used for this fact sheet
- The female condom, Family Planning Victoria. More information here.
- Bound, WJ et al. 1992,‘Female condom (Femidom). A clinical study of its use-effectiveness and patient acceptability.’, in British Journal of Family Planning, vol. 18, no. 2, p. 36. More information here.
- Lameiras Fernandez, et al. 2008, ‘Assessing female condom acceptability among heterosexual Spanish couples’, in Eur J Contracept Reprod Health Care vol. 13, no. 3, pp. 255-263. More information here.
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