Citation

Webb FT. Integration 1994; (39): 46-47.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1994, Japanese Organization for International Cooperation in Family Planning)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

12287786

Abstract

China has a tradition of scientific inquiry and record of success in developing contraceptives. The Chinese government toward the end of the 1970s invested in biomedical research to support its family planning program with the help of the World Health Organization and the United Nations Population Fund. Several family planning research institutes were created. The research agenda is to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of methods already used in China, while developing entirely new methods for men and women to be potentially introduced on a broad scale in the family planning program. Since 1980, China has developed an outstanding infrastructure for research. Both large-scale epidemiological studies and smaller-scale clinical trials to compare Chinese methods with foreign equivalents have been conducted. Studying IUD safety and effectiveness is of particular importance since it is the most common method of family planning in the country. Research on this method prompted the government to stop producing stainless steel rings and instead scale up production of copper devices. Research on developing new methods is also discussed.

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