Female sterilization : a guide to provision of services

High-quality female sterilization services can play an important role in helping countries to their family planning goals.

Such services should be voluntary, medically safe and effective, appropriate to the health care system, and well managed and efficient.

The guidelines provided here are intended for people responsible for initiating or expanding female sterilization services within family planning and health programmes.

Advantages and disadvantages of female sterilization, service delivery, timinig of the procedure, recommended techniques, the provision of information and counselling and service evaluation are all covered.