New resources in Spanish

ByCristina Puig March 11, 2020March 11, 2020

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 de trabajo de la Guía de Práctica Clínica de Anticoncepción Hormonal e Intrauterina. Guía de Práctica Clínica de Anticoncepción Hormonal e Intrauterina. Ministerio de Sanidad, Consumo y Bienestar Social. Instituto Aragonés de Ciencias de la Salud; 2019. Guías de Práctica Clínica en el SNS.

Valuable resources for practitioners, advocates and anyone interested in learning more about postcoital contraception.

Refusal to prescribe EC in Italy met with legal action

ByCristina Puig November 13, 2014November 13, 2014

In contrast to the stories of EC refusal we’ve been hearing about in Poland, recent stories of EC refusal in Italy have been met with legal action and consequences. In the province of Pavia, a nurse has resigned following an investigation by the hospital she worked at into why she denied EC access to two…

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UPA EC: status updates

ByCristina Puig March 24, 2015March 25, 2015

The Ministry of Health in Luxembourg announced on March 17 that UPA EC is available in pharmacies without a prescription since February 1, 2015. Click here to read Ministry statement. We have also been informed that UPA EC pills will be available for direct purchase in pharmacies in the Netherlands, Portugal and Spain in the coming weeks…

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France: Emergency contraception not included in new gratuity measures

ByCristina Puig September 14, 2021October 1, 2021

September 2021. The French Health Minister recently announced that in 2022, access to contraception will be free for women up to 25 years old. This policy that makes access to some contraceptive methods free of cost (no charges for medical appointments to get a prescription, checkups, tests, and the method itself) extends now to all…

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Honduras finally frees emergency contraception pills

ByCristina Puig March 10, 2023May 17, 2024

March 2023. Honduras’ President Xiomara Castro announced on March 8 that emergency contraception pills will be allowed to be marketed and used in the country. According to Reuters, the President “signed an executive order ending a ban of more than 10 years on the use and sale of the “morning after pill,” fulfilling a campaign…

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The EC wheel: now available on-line and in French

ByCristina Puig May 17, 2016September 20, 2017

“Emergency contraception methods” (the EC wheel), a counselling tool for pharmacists and health providers published in May 2016 by ECEC, is now available in French, and can be used from tablets, cellphones and computers (on and off line). This tool is inspired in the WHO Medical eligibility criteria for contraceptive use (MEC) wheel, and based on the…

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Spain: 10 years of prescription-free access to EC pills

ByCristina Puig October 8, 2019October 9, 2019

October 2019. In Spain, LNG EC pills are sold without prescription since 2009, and UPA EC pills since early 2016. According to the news agency EFE, in this 10-year period, over 7 million units have been sold in the country. According to the General Council of Official Colleges of Pharmacists of Spain, pharmacists have a…

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