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Currently home to 180 million people, Pakistan's population continues to rise, with an estimated increase of 66 million in the next 15 years.1 While it is encouraging to note that women in developing countries have shown an interest in limiting their family size and appropriately spacing out pregnancies by means of modern contraceptive methods, most women in developing countries still find it difficult to obtain contraception. Also, failure to correctly and consistently use modern contraceptive methods has led to an increase in the number of unwanted pregnancies.2 In Pakistan, the contraceptive prevalence ratio is alarmingly low at 29%.3 Consequently physicians need to be able to explain the correct use of different contraceptive methods to …