Peru-28th Session November 2017-Contraception

Para 94) In terms of sexual and reproductive health, following the adoption of the National Gender Equality Policy, 78.1 per cent of women were using contraception in 2021, representing an improvement of 102.6 per cent. Para 95) By December 2021, modern contraceptives had been distributed on 951,551 occasions – 756,144 times (80 per cent) to women and 195,407 times (20.5 per cent) to men. The most commonly distributed method of contraception, representing 39 per cent of the total (370,880 occasions), was quarterly injections, which are used only by women. The second most common method was condoms; 196,638 were distributed (20 per cent of the total), 195,356 of which were given to men and 1,282 to women.