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Emergency contraception

Australia

• Australian Family Physician
  • Ulipristal acetate: An update for Australian GPs [2017]
  • Emergency contraception: Oral and intrauterine options [2017]

• National Health and Medical Research Council
  • Provision of emergency contraception: a consensus statement [2020]

Bangladesh

• BMJ Open
  • Role of community-level emergency contraceptive pills awareness and possibilities of long-acting reversible or permanent methods in reducing unwanted births in Bangladesh: evidence from a nationwide cross-sectional survey [2023]

Brazil

• Frontiers in Pharmacology
  • Availability of emergency contraception in large Brazilian municipalities: a guaranteed right? [2023]

Canada

• BMC Health Services Research
  • Emergency contraception subsidy in Canada: a comparative policy analysis [2022]

• Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health
  • Ulipristal versus Levonorgestrel for Emergency Contraception: A Review of Comparative Cost-Effectiveness [2019]
  • Ulipristal versus Levonorgestrel for Emergency Contraception: A Review of Comparative Clinical Effectiveness and Guidelines [2018]

• Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
  • Canadian Contraception Consensus Chapter 3 Emergency Contraception [2015]

Ethiopia

• BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
  • Emergency contraceptive knowledge and associated factors among abortion experienced reproductive age women in Ethiopia: a multilevel analysis using EDHS 2016 data [2023]

Europe

• European Consortium for Emergency Contraception
  • Publications

• European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology
  • Emergency contraception. Widely available and effective but disappointing as a public health intervention: a review [2015]

Fiji

• Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health
  • Emergency contraception access in Fijian community pharmacies: A descriptive study [2024]

High-income countries

• BMJ Open
  • Over-the-counter provision of emergency contraceptive pills: a systematic review [2022]

India

• Health Policy and Planning
  • Do Indian women know about and use the emergency contraceptive pill? An analysis of nationally representative data from 2005-06 and 2019-21 [2023]

International

• Contraception
  • Effect of BMI and body weight on pregnancy rates with LNG as emergency contraception: analysis of four WHO HRP studies [2016]

• International Planned Parenthood Federation
  • IMAP Statement on emergency contraception [2018]

• Reproductive Health
  • Acceptability of an on-demand pericoital oral contraceptive pill: a systematic scoping review [2024]

Italy

• Frontiers in Global Women's Health
  • Over-the-counter emergency contraception in Italy: ethical reflections and medico-legal issues [2023]

Japan

• Biological and Pharmaceutical Bulletin
  • Descriptive Study on a Nationwide Exploratory Questionnaire Survey of Emergency Contraceptive Pills and Their Sexual History and Knowledge in Japan [2023]

Low and middle income countries

• BMC Health Services Research
  • Workforce interventions to improve access to emergency contraception pills: a systematic review of current evidence in low- and middle-income countries and recommendations for improving performance [2015]

• PLoS ONE
  • Improving Access to Emergency Contraception Pills through Strengthening Service Delivery and Demand Generation: A Systematic Review of Current Evidence in Low and Middle-Income Countries [2014]

Nepal

• Reproductive Health
  • A new wave in the quiet revolution in contraceptive use in Nepal: the rise of emergency contraception [2016]

Nordic countries

• Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica
  • Emergency contraceptive pill use among women in Denmark, Norway and Sweden: Population-based survey [2020]

Republic of Korea

• Frontiers in Endocrinology
  • The current status of emergency contraception use in reproductive-aged Korean women: a population-based internet survey [2023]

Spain

• BMC Women's Health
  • Prevalence of emergency contraceptive pill use among Spanish adolescent girls and their family and psychological profiles [2018]

Sub-Saharan Africa

• BMC Public Health
  • Trends in emergency contraception awareness among women and girls in 28 sub-Saharan countries [2021]

• Contraception and Reproductive Medicine
  • Use and awareness of emergency contraceptives among women of reproductive age in sub-Saharan Africa: a scoping review [2022]

Syria

• Cureus
  • Emergency Contraception Knowledge, Attitudes, and Barriers Among Men: A Cross-Sectional Study [2024]

United Kingdom

• BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
  • Trends in the use of emergency contraception in Britain: evidence from the second and third National Surveys of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles [2016]

• BMJ Open
  • Use of path analysis to predict changes to community pharmacy and GP emergency hormonal contraception (EHC) provision in England [2022]

• Faculty of Sexual & Reproductive Healthcare
  • Emergency Contraception

• Health Technology Assessment
  • Provision of the progestogen-only pill by community pharmacies as bridging contraception for women receiving emergency contraception: the Bridge-it RCT [2021]

• Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
  • Levonorgestrel-containing emergency hormonal contraception: advice on interactions with hepatic enzyme inducers and contraceptive efficacy [2016]

• Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters
  • Emergency contraception in the UK: stigma as a key ingredient of a fundamental women’s healthcare product [2019]

United States

• American Academy of Pediatrics
  • Emergency Contraception [2019]

• American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
  • Access to Emergency Contraception [2017]

• American Society for Emergency Contraception
  • Projects

• Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses
  • Emergency Contraception [2017]

• BMJ
  • Retail demand for emergency contraception in United States following New Year holiday: time series study [2023]

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • Emergency Contraception
  • Classifications for Emergency Contraception

• Contraception
  • Emergency Contraception: A multi-specialty survey of clinician knowledge and practices [2015]

• Guttmacher Institute
  • Emergency Contraception [2023]

• Integrated Pharmacy Research & Practice
  • Role of the community pharmacist in emergency contraception counseling and delivery in the United States: current trends and future prospects [2017]

• JAMA Network Open
  • Trends in Encounters for Emergency Contraception in US Emergency Departments, 2006-2020 [2024]
  • Contraception Use and Pregnancy Risk Among Adolescents in Pediatric Emergency Departments [2024]

• Journal of General Internal Medicine
  • Oral Emergency Contraception Provision in the Veterans Health Administration: a Retrospective Cohort Study [2022]

• Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine
  • Emergency Contraception for Adolescents and Young Adults: Guidance for Health Care Professionals [2016]

• Society of Family Planning
  • Society of Family Planning Clinical Recommendation: Emergency contraception [2023]

• StatPearls
  • Postcoital Contraception
  • Levonorgestrel

WHO

• World Health Organization
  • WHO recommendations on self-care interventions: making over-the-counter emergency contraceptive pills available without a prescription [2024]
  • Fact sheet on the safety of levonorgestrel-alone emergency contraceptive pills (LNG ECPs) [2010]
  • Emergency contraception: Fact sheet

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  • Oral contraceptives
  • Hormonal contraception
  • Family planning, contraception