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UK: New guidance to improve access to high quality contraceptive services for youth includes EC
In the UK, new guidance issued by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) aims to improve access to high quality contraceptive services, especially for young people up to the age of 25. Recommendations on emergency contraception (EC) include: ensuring that young women (and young men) know where to obtain free EC; informing…
EC pills back to prescription in Poland
June 2017. On June 23rd President Andrzej Duda finally signed the bill proposed by the ruling party Law and Justice (PiS), which will change the status of the only EC pill currently available without prescription in Poland (EC with ulipristal acetate, sold under the brand name ellaOne). The so called “Act of 25th May 2017…
EMA recommends double dose of LNG EC when used with enzyme-inducers
On May 2016, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) recommended the use of a non-hormonal emergency contraceptive (EC) when a woman in need of EC is using other interacting medicines (such as the HIV medicine efavirenz and ritonavir, certain medicines for tuberculosis and epilepsy, and herbal medicines containing St John’s wort). If using a cooper IUD…
New international guidance on EC pills
January 2019. The International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (FIGO) and the International Consortium for Emergency Contraception (ICEC), launch the 4th edition of “Emergency Contraceptive Pills: Medical and Service Delivery Guidance”. The guidance is designed to serve as a key reference and training document for service provision. It includes a range of medical and service delivery…
Italy and UK: different ways to address pharmacies objecting EC dispensing
September 2021. BBC3 recently reported the case of two women in the United Kingdom being denied emergency contraception from their local pharmacy, which triggered serious criticism from the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) president: “Pharmacy refusal to provide emergency contraception is ‘completely unacceptable’”, said professor Claire Anderson. In 2017, the RPS updated its own guidance on EC prescribing. In…
UPA EC: status updates
The Ministry of Health in Luxembourg announced on March 17 that UPA EC is available in pharmacies without a prescription since February 1, 2015. Click here to read Ministry statement. We have also been informed that UPA EC pills will be available for direct purchase in pharmacies in the Netherlands, Portugal and Spain in the coming weeks…