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Description: Implants that are placed in the arm, which constantly release amounts of hormones to prevent pregnancy.
- Advantages:
 It is a continuous, long acting birth control.
- It does not contain estrogen.
- There is nothing you must do on a daily basis or at the
time of intercourse to prevent pregnancy.
- Teenagers using Norplant have higher continuation rates
and lower pregnancy rates than teenagers choosing to
use birth control pills or Depo-Provera injections.
- Women using Norplant lose less menstrual blood.
- Disadvantages:
- Norplant will quite likely cause irregular periods. As time
goes on, your period may become more regular.
- Gain weight, darkening of the skin over implants,
develop headaches, and lose hair.
- Implants do not protect you from sexually transmitted
infections or HIV.
- Effectiveness:
- One in a thousand women become pregnant in the
first year.
- Two out of a hundred women become pregnant in
5 years.
- Time Constraints:
- The Norplant implant must be removed and replaced
once a year.
- Location:
- A health clinic.
- A personal doctor.
- A nurse midwife.
- A health department.
- Cost:
- Norplant can cost between $500 and $750, which
includes the medical exam, a pregnancy test, the implants,
and the insertion. Clinicians will charge an additional fee to
remove Norplant, which ranges anywhere from
$100 to $200.
Abstinence | Cervical Cap | Condom ("rubber") | Female Condom |
Depo Provera | Diaphragm | Norplant | Abortion | Emergency Contraception | Foam | Copper Intrauterine Device
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