Charlotte Pritchard
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152 appearances
15 recordings
1 series
first heard Sep 2010
last heard Nov 2012
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So that is around 3,000 women.
So typical use, it's much higher and it's 8% failure rate, which is 80,000 women.
Who have unexpected pregnancies in the first year of use.
So if we take condoms, if you go for the typical use, the failure rate is 15%, which means there are 150,000 unwanted pregnancies in the first year of use for every million women.
There is.
Male sterilisation.
But even that has a failure rate.
We'd expect 1,500 pregnancies per million women per year.
Well, according to the ARHP, it's the most effective of all these methods, three times more effective than typical male sterilisation.
That's not completely fair.
There are some concerns that the contraceptive has sometimes been improperly inserted and women have reported side effects.
And also, while we know that 584 women have alerted the NHS of unwanted pregnancies, there may be others out there who haven't.
The figure of 584 pregnancies without context is completely misleading.
More or Less was presented by Tim Harford, the FT's undercover economist.
The producer was Richard Knight and the editor was Richard Varden.
It was made in association with the Open University.
Thank you for downloading this week's More or Less podcast.
Here's Tim Harford.
Until then, goodbye.
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