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combined oral contraceptive pill

birth control method that includes a combination of an estrogen (estradiol) and a progestogen (progestin)
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Summary

combined oral contraceptive pill is an essential medicine[1]. It draws 8,043 Wikipedia views per month (essential medicine category, ranking #7 of 63).[2]

Key Facts

  • Discoverer or inventor: Ferdinand Peeters[3]
  • Subclass of: oral contraceptive[4]
  • Start time: 1961[5]
  • Point in time: 1961[6]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Combined hormonal contraceptives[7]
  • Location of creation: Massachusetts[8]
  • Facet of: women's health[9]
  • Described by source: Canon of Flanders[10]
  • Subject has role: essential medicine[11]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[12], gender gap on Dutch Wikipedia[13]

Why It Matters

combined oral contraceptive pill has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[14] It is known by 95 alternative names across languages and contexts.[15]

Related Entities

women's health

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [14] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [15] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 4d ago · WikiHelper232 · 2026-10-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'ast', 'ca', 'cs', 'cy', 'da', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'eo', 'es', 'eu', 'fa',
    Sitelink count → 51
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1|1 */ Gnd id: 4044229-9"
  2. 4w ago · Pruna.ar · 2026-09-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Location of creation → Massachusetts
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Location of creation: Massachusetts"
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