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Article: NSW: Australian women most receptive to new contracpetive
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- AAP General News (Australia)
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- March 23, 2002
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NSW: Australian women most receptive to new contracpetive
SYDNEY, March 23 AAP - Australian women have taken up a new implant
form of contraceptive
faster than other women in the world, according to new figures today.
Research released for this weekend's Sexual Health and Family Planning
Conference found
more than 80,000 Australian women were now using Implanon, a three-
year contraceptive
implant.
The implant went on the market in May 2001, with Australian women
embracing the new
product much faster in the ensuing six months than European women.
In Australia, 35,500 women had the implant inserted in that time,
compared to 32,000
women in France and 30,000 ...