Similar Posts
New resources in Spanish
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…
New Italian edition of EC guideline
The Italian edition of Emergency Contraception: A guideline for service provision in Europe is already available. See Contraccezione di emergenza Una linea guida per la fornitura di servizi in Europa. This edition has been published in March 2015 with the endorsement of the Societa’ Italiana di Ginecologia e Ostetricia, Associazione Ostetrici Ginecologi Ospedalieri Italiani, Societa’…
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…
European Cross-National Study About EC Use and Attitudes
A study published in the European Journal of Contraception and Reproductive Health Care in 2013 sought to identify knowledge of and attitudes towards EC among women from five European countries. Sexually-active women from France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the United Kingdom were asked about their use of and opinions on EC in an internet-based survey….
![Peru: AOE para todas](https://www.ec-ec.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Screenshot-2023-03-01-at-12.54.21-768x516.png)
Peru: AOE para todas
February 2023. In Peru, the long-awaited hearing of the emergency contraception case took place in the Constitutional Court on February 28, 2023. The court discussed if the provision of emergency contraception pills (ECPs) through the public health network, is in accordance with Constitutional law. In Peru, ECPs are allowed for sale in pharmacies (paid out…
Sexual health, human rights and the law. New report of the World Health Organization
States have obligations to bring their laws and regulations that affect sexual health into alignment with human rights laws and standards. Drawing from a review of public health evidence and research into human rights law, the report Sexual health, human rights and the law shows how states can support sexual health through mechanisms that are consistent…