As with all barrier contraceptives, water or silicone-based lubricants are safe to use with any female condom.

They often don't ask about a woman's sexual history, including how active they are and their types of partners, or whether they use barrier contraceptives."

Barrier contraceptives (condoms, diaphragms, spermicides, contraceptive sponge) help protect against these diseases.

FemCap is a cervical barrier contraceptive.

Over the next several decades, the cervical cap became the most widely used barrier contraceptive method in Western Europe and Britain.

Avoid using tampons and barrier contraceptives (such as diaphragms, cervical caps, or sponges) during the first 12 weeks after childbirth.

Some barrier contraceptives protect against STIs.

The Food and Drug Administration today approved a birth control device called the cervical cap, a barrier contraceptive that is already available in Europe.

Since most married couples do not routinely use barrier contraceptives, the cheating spouse is very likely to transmit any infection to their unwitting spouse.

He began designing barrier contraceptives, some of them downright bizarre, in 1986 while researching the AIDS virus, convinced that condoms were the only hope.

When used along with spermicides, barrier contraceptives are associated with significantly lower rates of tubal infertility than birth-control pills or intrauterine devices, researchers say.

As with the production of condoms for men, the development of vulcanized rubber by Charles Goodyear helped make barrier contraceptives for women more reliable and inexpensive.

Another is lack of access to good advice - on barrier contraceptives, say, or Norplant - that would allow all American women to take control of their reproductive lives.

The term cervical cap has been used to refer to a number of barrier contraceptives, including the Prentif, Dumas, Vimule, and Oves devices.

If you have had menstrual TSS, do not use tampons, barrier contraceptives, or an intrauterine device (IUD).

Condoms and diaphragms only partly protect against an HPV, Dr. Brotzman said, since the virus can infect tissues not covered by barrier contraceptives.

The lack of barrier contraceptives increases the risk of the tourist obtaining a sexually transmitted infection from their foreign partner especially when their partner has been with multiple women.

But most early advocates of birth control, especially in the United States, led by Margaret Sanger, promoted the diaphragm as the barrier contraceptive for women that was the easiest to use.

They will also have to agree to have their current and future sexual partners registered and monitored by the medical authorities, to "use barrier contraceptives consistently and for life," and never to give blood.

Men involved in clinical trials have been required to use condoms, while women have been asked to take pregnancy tests before beginning the drug and monthly during the trials, and to use birth control pills along with barrier contraceptives like diaphragms.

The risk of catching the infection will obviously increase with the number of times intercourse takes place and will also depend on other factors, such as the sites that are infected and whether barrier contraceptives such as the condom are used.