World Contraception Day 2020: EC and stigma

ByCristina Puig

September 2020. The European Journal of Contraception and Reproductive Health Care highlights and provides open access to this paper from its latest issue:

Qualitative findings about stigma as a barrier to contraception use: the case of Emergency Hormonal Contraception in Britain and implications for future contraceptive interventions
Rachael Eastham, Christine Milligan & Mark Limmer.

See more on the ESC website.

A good way to commemorate #WorldContraceptionDay

 

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