Lippes Loop Insertion by Midwives in Healthy and Chronically Ill Women in Rural Haiti.

The article presents a study investigating the efficacy of lippes loop insertion by midwives in healthy and chronically ill women in Haiti. In 1996 all mothers attending the Albert Schweitzer Hospital prenatal and tuberculosis clinics were offered the IUD as a means of family planning. Based on the examined record of all patients, several differences between the studies stand out. This may be explained by the fact that treatment of gonorrhea and cervicitis was carried before IUD insertion. Moreover, the second difference is the markedly increased rate of expulsion in the Haitian ill group.