RESUMO
Sexual and Reproductive Health are considered at present as a Human Right that must be guaranteed by the State. In Argentina some Federal, Provincial and Municipal Laws have been sanctioned in order to guarantee this right through programs that bring information, counselling and implementation in the use of contraceptive methods, prevention, diagnosis and treatment of sexually transmitted infections and genitomammary pathologies. Many Institutions, including Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, have been incorporated in these programs. Contraceptive methods have selection criteria and indication for its use that are described in this publication, for the purpose to explain indications, side-effects, advantages and disadvantages of each one of them; as well as their best usefulness in the three stages of reproductive life: adolescence, sexual maturity and premenopause. Finally, the Eligibility Criteria were synthetized for the use of contraceptive methods, performed by the OMS in 1996.
