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Article: Emergency contraception: Does improved access reduce the pregnancy rate?
- Article from:
- Gynecological Endocrinology
- Article date:
- September 1, 2007
- Author:
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Emergency contraception is contraception provided after unprotected sexual intercourse. A series of studies conducted by the World Health Organization showed that: (1) levonorgestrel is more effective and better tolerated than the Yuzpe regimen (which consists of two doses of combined oral contraceptive pills given at 12-h interval [1,2]; and (2) and the administration of a single dose of levonorgestrel is as effective as two doses of 0.75 mg given 12 h apart or a single dose of 10 mg of mifepristone [3]. Since levonorgestrel is more widely available than mifepristone, a single dose of 1.5 mg of levonorgestrel has become the regimen of choice for emergency contraception in most countries.
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