If your family is complete, sterilisation is a safe and effective way of preventing unwanted pregnancy. Currently, 1 in 10 couples choose to have this done. If you’re both convinced that you don’t want to have any more children, and you’d like to be able to forget about contraception, then sterilisation is the perfect solution. But once you’ve made that decision, the next question for many couples is: which of us should it be?

In the past, it was usually the woman who was sterilised. Today, as many men as women have the operation. At all CASA clinics we carry out both male and female sterilisation. The operation often costs much less than it does in other countries. Sterilisation is a permanent form of contraception that is usually irreversible.