"Expanding knowledge and access
to emergency contraception"
"Expanding knowledge and access to emergency contraception in Europe"
The Spanish Society of Contraception (SEC) just launched the Spanish edition of emergency contrantraception: A guideline for service provision in Europe, published by ECEC in December 2013.
Anticoncepción de Urgencia. Guía para la provisión de servicios en Europa, can be downloaded from the SEC´s website, here.
ECEC thanks the SEC for this collaboration and for their efforts to provide tools to foster and strengthen an evidence-based approach to EC recommendations.
In Germany, the discussion continues over whether levonorgestrel-only emergency contraception should be issued in the future without a doctor’s prescription. Currently, a prescription is still needed in order to purchase emergency contrantraception, and only physicians can prescribe it. At a hearing of the Health Committee of the Bundestag in April, testimony was given by health…
The British Pregnancy Advisory Service (bpas) recently launched a campaign in the UK calling for LNG EC to be made available directly on pharmacy shelves at an affordable price. Currently in the UK, women can only obtain EC from behind the pharmacy counter after a consultation with a pharmacist, and LNG EC costs up to £30,…
December 2019
March 2020. Two recent publications provide good up-dates on emergency contraception (and other methods) in Spanish: Organización Panamericana de la Salud (OPS) y Facultad de Salud Pública Bloomberg de Johns Hopkins/Centro para Programas de Comunicación (CCP), Proyecto de Conocimientos sobre la Salud. Planificación familiar: Un manual mundial para proveedores. Baltimore y Washington: CCP y OPS, 2019. Grupo…
November 2022. An article recently published in the German edition of Glamour points at an important element in EC knowledge and use in many countries: the ban on EC advertising in media outlets, and how it contributes to the low knowledge of this contraceptive method. “I was unprepared for everything I had to endure that…
March 2023. In Peru, on March 30 the Constitutional Court finally issued its ruling regarding the case of universal access to emergency contraception (EC) pills. The Court ordered the Ministry of Health to continue providing free-of-cost LNG EC pills nationwide, through the public health network. According to the Court press release, the magistrates considered that,…
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