Dr Jacqueline Coombe

It's so interesting.

I think it's also something to keep in mind and something we need to think about with contraception is...

how you get pregnant and how that works so something that I didn't know before I started doing research in this area was how long sperm can live in the body for like six days I know I know which is wild right wild so like stuff can happen and you not realize it happened and there's sperm living in you and it's like it's complicated stuff happens yep it's yeah

Yeah.

Yeah, exactly.

I think the unintended pregnancy rates in Australia are around 50% too.

So it's like half of women have experienced a pregnancy that was unintended.

And that doesn't mean unwanted.

It just means that that pregnancy was

Bit of a surprise.

Bit of a surprise.

Mistimed.

Not at the time that they were expecting or maybe it is truly unwanted.

But, yeah, it happens.

Yep.

So pretty good and very similar to the pill.

So under perfect use conditions, it's 99%, but really in real life, 93% effective.

Pretty good.

So I would say generally most of the contraceptive options we have are pretty good at preventing pregnancy.

It's just deciding with that what efficacy you like and then also what side effects you're willing to tolerate, what it looks like in your day-to-day life.