UC San Francisco
For A Project To Demonstrate How To Feasibly Offer The Copper IUD As Emergency Contraception
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Amount$150,000
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Program
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Date Awarded10/8/2012
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Term24 Months
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Type of SupportProject
Strategies
Overview
The copper IUD is the most effective method of emergency contraception, with much lower rates of failure than oral emergency contraceptive pills, but its usage for emergency contraception is quite low. While the oral emergency contraceptive pill is now available to adult women at retail outlets without a prescription, use of an IUD for emergency contraception requires a clinical visit and time for insertion. This grant would support a project run by the University of California at San Francisco, through its New Generation Health Center, to determine the feasibility of providing same-day IUD insertion for "drop-in" patients seeking emergency contraception in a regular family planning clinic setting, and developing a protocol for this approach in other clinics. Increasing the use of IUDs for emergency contraception would also help reduce future unintended pregnancies by providing a highly effective long-acting method of contraception.
About the Grantee
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Address
The Regents of the University of California, San Francisco c/o Office of Sponsored Research
490 Illinois Street, 4th Floor, San Francisco, CA, 94143-0000, United States
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