Low-income women and racial and ethnic minorities experience a disproportionate share of
unintended pregnancies in the United States. 1 Although unintended pregnancy rates are …

In recent years, there has been much reflection on the measures used to assess and monitor
contraceptive programming outcomes. The meaning and measurement of intention‐to‐use …

Background: HIV infection and unintended pregnancy are occupational risks of commercial
female sex work (FSW). The burden of unintended pregnancy among FSW including …

The epidemic caused by the Zika virus (ZIKV), beginning in 2015, is a major public health
shock for Brazil, confronting reproductive-age women with an array of potentially dire risks …

Background Although hindrances to the sexual and reproductive health of women are
expected because of COVID-19, the actual effect of the pandemic on contraceptive use and …

Potter and colleagues are right: the retrospective, population-level measure of unintended
pregnancy—typically presented as a rate among women of reproductive age or as a …

In this article, we use newly available data from the Relationship Dynamics and Social Life
(RDSL) study to compare a wide range of attitudes related to pregnancy for 961 black and …

Abstract Background In Brazil, high contraceptive prevalence rates coexist with high rates of
unintended pregnancies. Contraceptive discontinuation may explain this context, but few …

CONTEXT Many young adults are unclear about how much they want to have, or prevent
having, a baby. However, pregnancy ambivalence is an underexamined factor in the uptake …

Fertility desires are fundamental to understanding contraceptive use, yet the relationship
between the two remains unclear and is the subject of much debate in demography. To …