UK: Lower prices for LNG EC
May 2020. Last April, the International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (FIGO) issued a statement pointing at key action points to ensure access to contraception services and supplies during the COVID-19 pandemic. Contraception services and supplies are core components of essential health services and access to these is a fundamental human right. The key action…
November 2020. The Spanish Society for Contraception (SEC) just published the findings of its annual National Contraception Survey 2020, based on phone interviews conducted among 1800 women of reproductive age, between July and August 2020. With regards to emergency contraception (EC) use, 38% of the women surveyed reported having ever used EC at some point…
October 2019. According to the National Survey on Sexual Health and Contraception among Spanish Youth, promoted by the Spanish Society of Contraception (SEC), 29,7% of young women have ever used emergency contraception (EC) pills. These figures vary when broken down by ages: 14,4% of 16 to 18 years old have ever used EC; 19,9% of…
December, 2019. The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologist (RCOG) recommends to reclassify emergency contraception (EC) pills as General Sales List products (so they can be sold straight off the shelf without consultation), as a simple and cost-effective measure to improve women’s access to health care. This is one of several recommendations made by RCOG in…
In early 2017, the Groupe interdisciplinaire d’expert·e·s en contraception d’urgence (IENK) and the University of Basel developed an audiovisual four module training aimed at strengthening EC counselling in Swiss pharmacies. The four videos are available in French in this You Tube channel and also from IENK website, along with other useful resources in French, German and Italian.
December 2020. In Malta, a discussion is being held in Parliament these days, about the need for all pharmacies in the country to carry emergency contraception (EC) pills, in order to ensure timely access to this contraceptive method. Surprisingly, some members of parliament still consider that EC pills can threaten Maltese law, under which human…
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