ECEC

May 2024. Switzerland and the United Kingdom are the only two European countries where pharmacists are mandated to counsel individuals seeking emergency contraception. A recent study by the Pharm...

https://www.ec-ec.org/switzerland-assessment-of-pharmacy-ec-counseling/

April 2024. In 2022 the World Health Organization (WHO) included the recommendation of “making emergency contraception pills available without prescription”, in its Guideline on Self-care int...

https://www.ec-ec.org/who-new-publication-on-emergency-contraception-and-self-care/

April 2024. DKT International recently published a paper sharing the results of it social marketing strategy to expand the EC market in Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cote d’Ivoire, Guinea, Mal...

https://www.ec-ec.org/francophone-west-and-central-africa-ec-market-grows/

April 2024. We are thrilled to announce that the International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP) has endorsed the consensus statement published last September by the European Society of Contracepti...

https://www.ec-ec.org/international-pharmaceutical-federation-fip-endorses-ecps-dispensing-recommendations/

April 2024. According to the Russian State Register of Medical Products emergency contraception (EC) pills containing levonorgestrel under the brand names Escapel and Postinor, have been switched...

https://www.ec-ec.org/russian-federation-lng-ec-pills-without-a-prescription/

April 2024.  On March 29, Polish President Andrzej Duda refused to sign the amendment to the Pharmaceutical Law that proposed making emergency contraception pills (ECPs) available without a pres...

https://www.ec-ec.org/poland-pharmacist-prescription-for-ec-after-president-vetoes-otc-access/

March 2024. In January 2019 a pharmacist refused to fill a prescription for the ulipristal acetate emergency contraception pill (ECP), in Aitkin County (a rural area of Minnesota) citing his reli...

https://www.ec-ec.org/minnesota-usa-not-filling-an-ec-prescription-constitutes-discrimination/

March 2024. The Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR) and partners launched Pathways to Change, a joint publication presenting the stories and strategies that have advanced sexual and reproductive...

https://www.ec-ec.org/pathways-to-change/

February 2024. On February 22, the Polish Parliament voted to approved access to emergency contraception pills without a prescription for individuals aged 15 and over. Following the approval by t...

https://www.ec-ec.org/poland-closer-to-approve-ec-pills-without-a-prescription/

February 2024. The European Parliamentary Forum for Sexual & Reproductive Rights (EPF) presented the 2024 edition of the Europe Contraception Atlas. ECEC was honored to participate in the launch ...

https://www.ec-ec.org/launch-of-the-2024-europe-contraception-policy-atlas/

January 2024.  In the United Kingdom, the Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare (FSRH) published a statement calling for the reclassification of oral emergency contraception (EC) from a ...

https://www.ec-ec.org/uk-demand-to-reclassify-oral-ec/

January 2024. On January 15th Poland’s Prime Minister announced that the government would propose an amendment to the law restricting access to the emergency contraception pills (ECPs), in orde...

https://www.ec-ec.org/poland-government-moves-fast-to-reinstate-otc-emergency-contraception/