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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]

Australia, New Zealand

• Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
  • Emergency Contraception [2019]

Canada

• 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]

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]

Germany

• Pharmacy Practice
  • Non-prescription dispensing of emergency oral contraceptives: Recommendations from the German Federal Chamber of Pharmacists [Bundesapothekerkammer] [2016]

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]

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]

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]

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]

• Faculty of Sexual & Reproductive Healthcare
  • Emergency contraception [2020]
  • FSRH Emergency Contraception National Benchmarking Audit: Final Report [2018]

• 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

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

• Guttmacher Institute
  • Emergency Contraception [2017]

• 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]

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

WHO

• World Health Organization
  • Fact sheet on the safety of levonorgestrel-alone emergency contraceptive pills (LNG ECPs) [2010]
  • Emergency contraception: Fact sheet

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• Guidelines
  • Oral contraceptives
  • Hormonal contraception
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