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...
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...
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 ...
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/