REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH
Health Facts About Emergency Contraceptive Pills

There exists a great deal of misinformation about emergency contraceptive pills. To alleviate confusion about emergency contraception, the Population Council produced a fact sheet that is both brief and annotated with citations of scientific materials—peer-reviewed published articles, official statements from the United States government and from professional medical associations, and informational Web sites—that can help people understand the issues surrounding these important medicines.

This fact sheet is available online in English, Spanish, and French. (There are two French-language versions of the fact sheet. One mentions emergency contraceptive pills that are available in Africa, and the other mentions emergency contraceptive pills that are available in Canada and the United States.)

(PDF in English) (PDF en español) (PDF en français—version pour l'Afrique)
(PDF en français—version pour le Canada et les Etats-Unis)

This fact sheet on emergency contraception is distributed without charge. Information in this publication may be reproduced without permission, provided it is distributed without charge and the source is acknowledged.

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See Also

• "Population Council research and technical assistance on emergency contraception" (2008) (PDF)

• Emergency Contraception

• Contraception

• Ebert Program Publications on Reproductive Health Technologies
• Emergency Contraceptive Potential of Products Under Development

Offsite Links

• ECafrique
• Frequently Asked Questions About Emergency Contraception from Not-2-Late.com
• American Society for Emergency Contraception
• International Consortium for Emergency Contraception

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