{"id":1684,"date":"2013-04-15T10:38:20","date_gmt":"2013-04-15T10:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/jfprhc\/?p=1684"},"modified":"2013-04-15T10:38:20","modified_gmt":"2013-04-15T10:38:20","slug":"help-who-revise-its-guidelines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmjsrh\/2013\/04\/15\/help-who-revise-its-guidelines\/","title":{"rendered":"Help WHO revise its guidelines!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The WHO are currently preparing updates to its <i>Medical Eligibility Criteria for Contraceptive Use<\/i> and <i>Selected Practice Recommendations for Contraceptive Use<\/i>,\u00a0which will be finalized in 2014, and are soliciting feedback from various stakeholders in the field of family planning to inform this process. The goal is to ensure these guidelines remain relevant to family planning policies, programmes and service delivery. To that end, they have created a survey to help prioritize topics to review and to determine which new information to add to the guidelines. In addition they welcome other suggestions on how to improve the guidelines.<\/p>\n<p>If you are familiar with the <i>Medical Eligibility Criteria for Contraceptive Use<\/i> or the <i>Selected Practice Recommendations for Contraceptive Use<\/i> fill out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.who.int\/reproductivehealth\/topics\/family_planning\/mec_suvey\/en\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">the survey<\/a> and give your suggestions for the next edition.<!--TrendMD v2.4.8--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The WHO are currently preparing updates to its Medical Eligibility Criteria for Contraceptive Use and Selected Practice Recommendations for Contraceptive Use,\u00a0which will be finalized in 2014, and are soliciting feedback from various stakeholders in the field of family planning to inform this process. 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