European Contraception Policy Atlas 2020
If you missed the on-line launch of the Atlas today, YouTube is here to help: https://youtu.be/5sT5mKS-UtI
If you missed the on-line launch of the Atlas today, YouTube is here to help: https://youtu.be/5sT5mKS-UtI January 2026 — In December 2025, European Union (EU) institutions reached a political agreement on a revised Victims’ Rights Directive confirming that survivors of sexual violence have the right to access sexual and reproductive healthcare, including emergency contraception, abortion care, and STI testing, where permitted under national law. This agreement marks the first time EU…
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…
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,…
May 2023. The Argentinian Minister of Health announced the switch of 1.5 mg levonorgestrel (LNG) emergency contraception pill (ECPs) products, to unrestricted sale products (producto de venta libre). A prescription will no longer be required to buy LNG ECPs. LNG ECPs are marketed in Argentina for over 10 years. UPA ECPs are registered but not yet…
Amid concerns that OTC (over the counter) EC access might result in less efficient use of contraceptive methods, overuse, and riskier sexual behavior, Swiss researchers studied whether the behaviors of EC users have changed since EC was made OTC in 2002. The researchers studied the profiles of EC users in a pharmacy in the city…
In a new study published in The Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal, Italian researchers explore the empirical and theoretical reasons behind why doctors and pharmacists may refuse to provide women with EC. Although evidence suggests that refusal typically is based on grounds of conscious, the researchers argue that the category of conscientious objection is not…
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