 My name is Dr. Shifra and I am working as a consultant gynecologist at Valimbal hospital, Karani Pune. And today I will be talking about contraception. So the first question which comes to my mind is why is contraception so important? Contraception is important to prevent unwanted pregnancies. It gives us the freedom to choose, to plan and not undergo unwanted or unplanned abortions. Now the next question is what are the contraception choices available to us? So the contraception choices varied and it can be divided broadly into two categories the temporary and the permanent methods. So first just a little bit about the permanent methods. The permanent methods are the vasectomy in the male and the tuectomy in the female and these are absolute non-reversible methods. So if you are very sure that you don't want to continue having any pregnancies you don't want any more children then it is the best to go for a tuectomy or vasectomy and it would be best to consult your doctor before going in for that. Second are the temporary methods. Now they are a wide variety of temporary methods again available to us. So the first is the natural method that is the withdrawal also known as quite as interruptus. This is not very advisable because it has a very high failure rate. The second are the condoms which are very widely available very easy to use and cheap and they do protect us against actually transmitted diseases but again the failure rate is quite high. So we need better methods of contraception. There comes the rule of pills. Pills are to be taken daily there is usually a pack of 21 there may be some with a pack of 28 or so and they're quite safe if taken under medical supervision. Next we have the injectables the DIPPA or the Deeper Provera. Now one injection is available and one injection is gives contraception for around three months and you can safely use it for a prolonged period of time. It may have some side effects like irregular bleeding a little bit of weight gain or and some some times the bleeding may not even occur but they are quite effective at 99% efficacy. Next we come to the patches the rinse these are not available freely in India so I will not be discussing more about them. The IUCD that is the intrauterine contraceptive device or also known as the copper T commonly is widely used and is very very effective. So we come to the next that is the copper T or the intrauterine contraceptive device which is quite commonly used by women in India. It is very very effective and almost it is effective as good as the permanent methods however at times it may cause irregular bleeding sometimes heavy bleeding and pain. I will urge you to meet your gynecologist and from this platter of contraception available to us you choose your own which suits you best. Thank you so much.