EC Advertising in Bulgaria
As evidenced by these pictures from Bulgaria, some European countries allow advertising of over-the-counter medical products. This particular ad is for EC and has been placed on the side of a shopping cart.
The UK organisation BPAS, launched a campaign that calls on pharmacies to reduce the cost of EC pills. As stated in ECEC´s last update on access to EC in Europe, the prices for both LNG and UPA EC pills when procured directly at the pharmacy in certain regions of the United Kingdom and in Ireland, are the higher in…
July 2022. The Catalan Health Department just published a new protocol for emergency contraception (EC) provision in public health services. The protocol now includes LNG and UPA EC pills, and also the insertion of the Cu-IUD. According to data estimates included in the document, in Catalonia in 2020 about 89% of EC pills were sold…
May 2022. On May 5th, the European Parliament adopted a resolution that strongly condemns the use of sexual and gender-based violence as a weapon of war. Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) call on the EU and host and transit countries to guarantee access to sexual and reproductive health and rights services, particularly emergency contraception,…
ECEC will be attending the European Society of Contraception and Reproductive Health’s first global conference on contraception, reproductive and sexual health in May in Copenhagen, Denmark. The sessions that are specifically focused on emergency contraception are highlighted below: Friday, 24 May 2013 16:30 – 17:30 Sponsored Symposium HRA Pharma: The unpredictable ovulation: critical in evolution and central…
May 29 2017. Since mid 2015, and upon recommendation from the European Medicines Agency, EC pills with ulipristal acetate can be bought without prescription from pharmacies in Poland and everywhere else in the European Union except for Hungary. On May 25th, however, Members of Parliament in Poland voted in favor of a new bill which proposes,…
September 2023. In Australia, some pharmacies still require women to fill out a written form, in order to obtain EC. The Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (PSA) created a form when EC pills were first introduced in the country (in the early 2000) but its use is no longer required nor recommended. This has triggered a…
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