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No known contraception method is 100 per cent described as best (Photo: iStock)
How effective is this method? Will it be part of my day-to-day routine? Will I have considerable weight gain? If someday I wanted to have children again, will it pose a challenge? These are some of the questions we tend to ask the doctor when we want to choose contraception methods.
It is approximated that 30-50 per cent of pregnancies are unplanned. In Kenya, it is estimated that 41 per cent of unintended pregnancies end up in abortion. Some options give 99 per cent effectiveness only if they are correctly adhered to. That is if a pill has to be taken every day, skipping days or weeks makes the method less effective.
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