Frequently asked questions about Contraceptives

In order to choose the adequate form of contraceptive you will have to bare your personal circumstances, their efficiency and price in mind. The methods used most are the condom, (with an efficiency of nearly 100% and also protects against sexually transmitted diseases), the contraceptive pill and the IUD.

There are contraceptives that can be used immediately. It is very important that you use them because the fertility of a woman comes back immediately after the legal termination of a pregnancy. Condoms can be used to avoid a new pregnancy and any possible sexually transmitted diseases. If you want information about any contraceptive go to your gynaecologist or doctor for help.

For a woman, as a definitive or surgical contraceptive there is tubal ligation or female sterilisation and the Essure. For a man as a definitive or surgical contraceptive there is the vasectomy.

For a woman the safest contraceptives are the contraceptive pill, the IUD, the vaginal ring, etc.

There is no determined age to start using contraceptives, as neither is there a determined age to start having sexual relations. If you don’t want to have children, the use of contraceptives has to start with the first sexual relations.