UK: Lower prices for LNG EC
October 2020. ECEC’s mission is to expand access to and knowledge of emergency contraception (EC) in Europe, within a broader sexual and reproductive health and rights approach. Our work does not occur in a vacuum: ensuring access to EC is just one of the many measures necessary for people to be able to exercise sexual…
Over a 140 participants from 19 countries, representing governments, parliaments, civil society, young people and academia, gathered in Sofia, Bulgaria in May 27-29, 2015, to participate in the Regional Conference “Promoting Health and Rights, Reducing Inequalities: Towards Better Sexual and Reproductive Health Outcomes in Eastern Europe and Central Asia”. Participants in the Conference, conveyed by…
October 2022. A portion of sexually active women do not use contraception, because they do not have sex frequently. The on-demand use of levonorgestrel 1,5 mg pills is being studied, and could expand the choice of contraceptives for those who have infrequent sex and thus, do not want to use a regular method, but do…

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…

December 2025. ECEC and the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) have come together to merge their data on mifepristone for medical abortion and ulipristal acetate (UPA) for emergency contraception, with the aim of shedding light on the actual global availability of these essential medicines. A summary of this joint analysis has now been published in…

May 2026. The Hungarian women’s rights organisation PATENT Association is running a campaign calling for the reclassification of emergency contraceptive pills (ECPs) to make them available without prescription in Hungary. The campaign, Magyarországon is legyen recept nélkül kapható az esemény utáni tabletta! (or “Make emergency contraception available over the counter in Hungary”), highlights the unnecessary…
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