Conversely, receiving less information and counseling about the pill results in poorer pill use.
Accurate knowledge is the key to making good decisions about one's reproductive health.
While counseling is valuable, a single counseling session with a family planning provider usually cannot cover all of the information that a person needs to make an informed choice among family planning methods. Nor should counselors and other front-line health care providers have to bear all the responsibility for seeing that clients are fully informed. Because the mass media also reach continuing family planning users, they can provide important reminders about pill use. In Haiti a billboard advertises Pilplan, a social marketing brand of OCs. Many people obtain information about OCs from the mass media.