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Natural family planning is a birth control method with a high failure rate. It means ways to avoid having sex when you are most fertile.

Using spermicide is a birth control method with a high failure rate. Spermicides are chemicals that kill sperm in the vagina.

A birth control sponge (also known as contraceptive sponge or the sponge) is a birth control method with a medium failure rate.

A diaphragm has a medium failure rate. It’s a soft rubber dome that fits over the cervix, blocking sperm from getting into the womb.

Sterilization is a birth control method with very low failure rate. Both men and women can be sterilized.

There are two types of birth control shots: the combined shot and the one-hormone shot.