Contraception and Women's Health

Over one thousand women will die today from pregnancy and pregnancy related causes. In the next twenty-four hours, 750,000 women will become pregnant, and 40% of these women do not want to become pregnant today. Whether it’s due to contraceptive failure or lack of access, these statistics warrant improvement.

These tragic losses are preventable, so what can we do to fix this? How effective are individual methods of birth control? How much misinformation have we been fed? And the most basic question: why aren’t people using contraception?

About Our Guest

Dr. Anita Nelson, a professor emerita at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, the former medical director of the women’s healthcare program at Harbor-UCLA medical center, and esteemed author of Contraceptive Technology, reassures us that medical researchers are actively pursing ways to advance and improve contraceptive technology.

Dr. Anita Nelson is the medical director of the Women’s Health Care Clinic Outreach & Education Program, an organization that provides free family planning, reproductive and preventative healthcare services for underserved, low-income, uninsured women, men, and teens.