Welcome to the European Consortium for Emergency Contraception (ECEC)
Founded in 2012, ECEC works to expand knowledge about and access to Emergency Contraception (EC) in Europe, and promotes the standardization of EC service delivery to ensure equitable access across the region. Since 2020, ECEC also works globally to advance access to EC.
EC is the only contraceptive method that can be used after sex, and it provides women with an additional opportunity to prevent a pregnancy.
Through this website, we hope to contribute to generating and sharing knowledge of EC in Europe and globally. Your contributions are essential to helping us achieve this goal, and we encourage you to share EC information about your country by writing to us at ecec [at] eeirh [dot] org.
Go directly to country-by-country information on EC access
Go directly to the online EC counseling tool (The EC wheel)
Latest News
Mexico: New data on EC use
May 2025. The use of emergency contraception (EC) among women in Mexico has increased, according to the 2023 National Survey on Demographic Dynamics (ENADID), published by the National Institute for Statistics and Geography (Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía, INEGI) last October. EC pills have been available in Mexico without a prescription for over a…
Norway: EC pills use raise again after years of decline
May 2025. Sales of emergency contraception (EC) pills are rising again in Norway after a few years of gradual decline, according to the latest drug consumption report from the Norwegian Institute of Public Health (Folkehelseinstituttet), published in June 2024. In 2023, approximately 129.000 packages of EC pills were sold nationwide. This marks a reversal of…
New Emergency Contraceptive pills database launched
May 2025. The European Consortium for Emergency Contraception (ECEC) is pleased to announce the launch of a new open-access Emergency Contraceptive (EC) pills database, now live at https://www.ec-ec.org/emergency-contraception-pills-database. This global resource offers country-level data on the availability of levonorgestrel (LNG), ulipristal acetate (UPA), and mifepristone EC pills. Users can search by region, country, pill type,…