"What Do We Really Know About Norplant?"

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"What Do We Really Know About Norplant?"

Washington Post (12/26/90), P. A24
El-Bayoumi, J.

Abstract: Norplant may offer freedom from the responsibility of pregnancy, but it won't protect against AIDS, writes J. El-Bayoumi, assistant professor of internal medicine at the George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, D.C., in a letter to the Washington Post. As a physician who works in the District area, El-Bayoumi diagnoses an increasing number of women with HIV/AIDS, a serious consideration for the 1990s. Furthermore, El-Bayoumi is concerned about the fact that Norplant involves silicon implants, because of the history of problems with the Dalcon Shield and silicone breast implants. Effective and safe contraception is needed that also protects against sexually transmitted diseases, but we must ask questions about how the contraceptives were developed and tested, whether informed consent was obtained, and what were the side effects, El-Bayoumi concludes.

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