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How effective is the pill?

  • Written by Deborah Bateson, Clinical Associate Professor, Discipline of Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Neonatology, University of Sydney
How effective is the pill?If you take the pill 'perfectly', it's 99.5% effective, but most women don't. from www.shutterstock.com

About one-third of people using contraception use the pill. But how effective is it?

There are two types of contraceptive pill – the combined pill, containing oestrogen and progestogen, and the progestogen-only-pill (often referred to as the...

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