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Contraception: understanding your options

What each family of methods does, what the decision actually depends on, and what is available free in India.

What you will be able to do afterwards

  • Compare methods by how much they depend on being remembered
  • Explain why suitability is decided with a clinician and not at a counter
  • Describe what to expect from bleeding in the first few months on a method
  • State the emergency contraception windows and which method has the longest one
  • Know which methods the public health system provides free

Completing this course means you have worked through the material. It is not a clinical qualification, it does not make you able to advise anyone else, and it carries no professional standing.

Lessons

5 lessons, about 1 hours in total. 5 lessons are free to read before you enrol.

  1. 1. What actually separates the methods 11 min
    Free sample
  2. 2. Suitability, and why it is a conversation rather than a counter 12 min
    Free sample
  3. 3. The first few months, and what your periods will do 10 min
    Free sample
  4. 4. Emergency contraception, and the windows 9 min
    Free sample
  5. 5. What the public health system provides 8 min
    Free sample

Every lesson has a knowledge check with an explanation of why an answer is right, private notes you can keep, and a downloadable preparation sheet.

Who wrote this, and who checked it

Author
AskHer Editorial
Clinical reviewer
nobody yet — awaiting clinical review
Review status
Editorially reviewed
Last updated
24 Sept 2026

Substantive changes are recorded in the course's update history, with the reason. If you think something here is wrong, report it — corrections are published, not quietly made.

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