World Contraception Day (WCD) 2025 provides an opportunity to raise awareness about the importance of informed choices that exist for women in relation to contraception and sexual health.
This year’s theme is Contraception – Your Body Your Choice and World Contraception Day invites women to share their experiences to take part and promote inclusive, empowering, and informed conversations around contraception and sexual health.
Dates: 26 September 2025
Theme: Contraception – Your Body Your Choice
Hashtags:
- #ContraceptionYourBodyYourChoiceNI
- #YourRightYourResponsibility
- #WorldContraceptionDay2025NI
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Access the event toolkit below for key messaging, ideas on how to participate, marketing materials (including social media posts, digital posters and banners), and additional online resources to help you promote WCD 2025:
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Event objective and messaging
Theme: Contraception – Your Body Your Choice
Dates: 26 September 2025
Published by: Public Health Agency, Communications and Sexual health teams
About this toolkit:
This toolkit is designed to help individuals, community groups, advocates, and organisations actively engage with and promote WCD 2025. With a focus on sexual health awareness, this year’s theme encourages everyone to share their experiences in using contraception and to speak with sexual health advisors about the options that may suit them best.Who is this toolkit for?
This toolkit is for individuals, community groups, advocates, and organisations who want to actively engage with and promote WCD 2025 campaign.Objective
To celebrate and explore women’s choices around contraception and build confidence and knowledge in sexual health by:
- Encouraging open conversations and experience sharing
- Signposting to existing supports and services
- Empowering individuals to seek and share information
Alignment with Sexual Health Action Plan 2023-26:
- Obj 3: Support choice over reproductive health and reduce the number of unintended pregnancies, focusing on teenage pregnancy.
- Obj 4: Ensure equitable access in sexual health and reproduction services across Northern Ireland.
- Obj 5: Create a culture of openness about sexual and reproductive health and empower people with the information they need to make informed choices.
How to participate
Promotional strategies to help you engage your audience and boost participation during WCD:
Collaborate with partners
- Work with local women’s groups, schools, universities, influencers and clinics.
- Share social media posts, comment and encourage others to participate.
- Cross-promote events and messaging on social media to extend the campaign’s reach.
Host or attend WCD events
- In-person: Host community workshops, panel discussions, information stalls/tables or outreach activities to facilitate open conversations. [collaborate with healthcare professionals to address common concerns about contraception].
- Virtual: Organise webinars, live Q&As, virtual peer talks focused on sexual health.
Share stories, testimonials
- Share personal stories or experiences from women who have benefited from open conversations about sexual health [young women, healthcare professionals, or advocates].
- Feature women’s voices from the community: young people, healthcare providers, or advocates.
- Share quotes, clips, or video stories on your social media platforms.
Create engaging content
- Encourage local creators or youth groups to submit video messages, poems, or reels on:
- ‘What are your thoughts and experiences with contraception – what does access to contraception mean to you?’
- Highlight ‘Which contraception topics do you wish were discussed more?’
- Highlight support services in fun, positive ways that resonate with women of all ages.
Key messages to share
- Talk openly, live openly: Open conversations help reduce stigma and empower people to make informed choices about their sexual health.
- Sexual health is health: Sexual health is essential for overall well-being, discussions should be supportive and non-judgmental.
- Empowering women: Encourage sharing knowledge to help young people make informed decisions.
Frequently Asked Questions
- Include answers to common questions about contraception methods, safety, and availability How do I choose? – Sexual Health NI
- Weight loss injections – contraception warning for women
- Once I have chosen a type of contraception, I can’t change to another
- The contraceptive pill causes weight gain
- Using hormonal contraception can cause infertility
- I don’t need contraception because my partner pulls out
- The contraceptive coils can only be used for women who have had children
- Contraception is only for straight women
- Clarify misconceptions to support informed decision making
Evaluation and impact
- Track social media engagement, hashtag reach, website visits, downloads, and event participation on your channels and platforms.
- Collect feedback from participants to measure awareness and engagement.
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Social media posts
Social media graphics to be used during the WCD 2025
Ready-to-use content (posts, images, and videos) for Facebook, Instagram, X, LinkedIn, websites.
Hashtags to use
- #ContraceptionYourBodyYourChoiceNI
- #YourRightYourResponsibility
- #Worldcontraceptionday2025NI
Suggested social media schedule (use the sample schedule below or tailor content to your audience)
Date Graphic Text 25 Sept 
Ahead of #worldcontraceptionday2025NI make sure you know where you can get access to contraception. Across Northern Ireland, there are free forms of contraception to help protect you against unplanned pregnancy and Sexually Transmitted Infections.
More info at www.sexualhealthni.info
26 Sept 
On #worldcontraceptionday2025NI make sure you know where you can get access to contraception. Across Northern Ireland, there are free forms of contraception to help protect you against unplanned pregnancy and Sexually Transmitted Infections.
More info at www.sexualhealthni.info
27 Sept 
Yesterday #worldcontraceptionday2025NI make sure you know where you can get access to contraception. Across Northern Ireland, there are free forms of contraception to help protect you against unplanned pregnancy and Sexually Transmitted Infections.
More info at www.sexualhealthni.info
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Digital poster, email signature and web banner
These digital materials were designed to promote World Contraception Day – for use of public, clinics, schools, universities and workplaces are available to download.
- Poster theme: Contraception – Your Body Your Choice
Download below:
Poster name How to use 
Optimised for sharing on social media platforms (Instagram, Facebook, X) 
Click here to download WCD 25 web banner/email signature
Add to websites, newsletters, email footers to spread the message. How to add email signature banner and Hyperlink the Image
- To add a banner and hyperlink to an image in your Outlook email signature, follow these steps:
- Open Outlook and click on Home > New Email to start a new message.
- Click on Insert > Signature > Signatures to open the Signature and Stationery dialog.
- Select the signature you want to edit from the list.
- Place the cursor where you want the image to appear in the signature.
- Click on the Image button to insert an image from your computer.
- Click on the Hyperlink button to add a hyperlink to the image.
- Enter the URL of the web page you want to link to https://sexualhealthni.info/events/world-contraception-day/ and click OK.
- Save the changes in the Signature and Stationery dialog.
- This will ensure that your email signature includes a banner with an image and a hyperlink, enhancing the signposting to the campaign.
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Press release
Press release published on 23 September 2025
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Additional resources
Additional resources
- Download WCD 2025 toolkit in PDF format here
- Access useful resources and links page on Sexual Health NI
- Videos from Common Youth: Watch inspiring videos from young people, healthcare professionals sharing their perspectives on the importance of informed choice in contraception sexual health.
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- Can I wear two condoms at the same time?
- Condom demonstration
- Size, lube & storage of condoms
- My friends feel negatively about hormonal contraception
- What is the morning after pill?
- Will taking the pill make me infertile in the future?
- How does the pill work?
- POP vs COC
- My friend said they had side effects
- I’m nervous about taking hormones
- What is hormonal contraception?
- How does emergency contraception work?
- Is emergency contraception the same as abortion?
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How to choose and where to get FREE contraception
How do I choose? – Sexual Health NI
Contraception is available for free across Northern Ireland from:
- Sexual and reproductive health clinics – they provide the full range of free contraception, a list of which can be found at www.sexualhealthni.info/contraception
- SH:24 – this is a service that allows women and girls aged 16 and over to order free contraceptives online and have them delivered discreetly to their door. Find out more at www.sh24.org.uk
- GPs – your local general practitioner can provide advice and a range of free contraception.
- Common Youth – an organisation that provides a range of free contraception and free sexual health and wellbeing services for people aged under 25. Find out more at www.commonyouth.com
- C-Card scheme – this initiative is aimed at people aged 16-25 and provides access to free condoms and lubricants, as well as one-to-one advice about sexual health. Find out more at www.pha.site/C-CardInfo
- Community pharmacies – Emergency Hormonal Contraception, often known as ‘the morning after pill’, is also available free of charge through most community pharmacies in Northern Ireland. Find a pharmacy near you at www.pha.site/PharmacyFirstMap
