"Expanding knowledge and access
to emergency contraception"
"Expanding knowledge and access to emergency contraception in Europe"
September 2020. The Romanian YouTube channel, SEXUL vs BARZA, run by reproductive justice and sex education advocate Adriana Radu, just released a new chapter focused on emergency contraception, which you can watch here:
Such resources are key to educate the young (and the not so young) generations that are more prone to look for information on contraception on-line. We are grateful for Adriana Radu’s work: Mulțumesc!
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 14, 2020. On May sixth, 59 countries, including 37 European ones, issued a joint statement highlighting that COVID -19 may negatively impact women’s and girls’ abilities to exercise their sexual rights and reproductive rights. The statement raises the increased risk of gender-based violence, and addresses the need to ensure sexual health and reproductive health services,…
May 2022. The International Association of Forensic Nurses (IAFN) recommends that EC be immediately offered and available to all female (or trans-male) victims of sexual assault or abuse of reproductive age or stage who choose to use EC as a means of protection from unintended pregnancy. Read the whole position paper “The Use of emergency…
September 2024. In Spain, almost 40% of women of reproductive age report having used emergency contraception pills (ECPs) at least once in their lifetime. Ever use of ECPs is more frequent among women 25 to 39 years of age, and particularly in the age range of 30 to 34, which is also the population with…
(October 5, 2016) The fall issue of the Journal of the University of Malta Medical School (Vol.28 Issue 3, 2016) focuses its editorial on emergency contraception. The article states that the most recent scientific evidence shows that LNG ECP delays ovulation and does not prevent implantation nor does ECP cause the loss of implanted embryos, and…
May 8, 2020. Last April, the European Parliamentary Forum for Sexual and Reproductive Rights, and the European Network of the International Planned Parenthood Federation, issued Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights during the COVID-19 pandemic. The joint report looks at the pandemic’s impact on access to essential SRHR services, and includes recommendations for decision-makers. With regards to…
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