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- Commonly made of latex, thin sheath.
- Rolled onto penis before sexual contact.
- 99% effective
- Protects against STIs, but it can leak, which would cause pregnancy
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- Thin soft polyurethane pouch
- Fitted inside the vagina before sex
- Protects against STIs
- Failure rate is much higher than a condom if it isn't ftted properly
- 95% effectuve
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- Thin, soft rubber or silicone
- inserted into the upper part of the vagina to cover the cervix
- Needs to be fitted
- Used with spermicide
- Doesn't protect against HIV
- 92-96% effective
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- Also known as the morning after pill
- Stops or delays your ovaries releasing an egg
- Stops a fertilised egg attatching itself to the womb lining
- 95% effectiveness within the first 24 hours
- after that 89%
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- Soft plastic ring that contains oestrogen and progestogen, similar to the pill
- Stays in your vagina for 3 weeks and is removed for a week
- When used correctly, 99% effective
- should have protected sex for the first seven days after insertion
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- contains synthetically produced oestrogen and progestogen
- prevents the release of eggs from ovaries
- Changes the lining of the womb to make it hostile to a fertilised egg
- Thickens cervical mucus sot hat a sperm cannot swim into the womb
- 99% effective
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- single, flexible sub-dermal implant 4cm x 2mm
- effective contraception for 3 years
- makes cevical mucus thicker, so sperm cannot reach the womb.
- Cheap
- 99.3% effective
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