Just a year ago, at the request of the Minister, the National Agency for Medicines and Health Products (ANSM) issued a warning to doctors and gynecologists and initiated at European level a reassessment of the benefit / risk ratio. 3rd and 4th generation pills. A year later, the ANSM takes stock of these recommendations, which shows a significant change in methods of contraception in France.
We thus see a 45% drop in prescriptions for 3rd and 4th generation pills in 2013 compared to 2012: they now represent only 22% of contraceptive pill sales, against 45% in 2012. “Since the month last June, the decrease in sales was even greater than 50% and reached 65% among 15-19 year-olds “underlines the ANSM.
At the same time, a 13% decrease in sales of non-oral estrogen-progestogens (transdermal patches and vaginal rings) was also observed, while the proportion of sales of other methods of contraception (implants, IUDs) increased by 27%. in 2013.
It should be noted that the largest increase in prescriptions concerns copper IUDs, that is to say IUDs not impregnated with progestins, sales of which increased by 47% in 2013. “We even observed an increase of more than 50%. % among women aged 20 to 39 ”adds the ANSM. A figure which shows that women now know that you can have an IUD inserted even when you have not yet had a child. This good old copper IUD, invented in 1960, seems to have a bright future ahead of it!
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