The Council of Europe’s Parliamentary Assembly just adopted Resolution 2331 (2020) “Empowering women: promoting access to contraception in Europe”. The Assembly calls on Council of Europe members and observer States to: As regards the response to the COVID-19 pandemic: Consider access to contraception including emergency...
01 July, 2020Johannes Bitzer (Editor-in-Chief) chose the following paper as highlight from the latest issue of the European Journal of Contraception and Reproductive Health Care: Oestrogen-free oral contraception with a 4 mg drospirenone-only pill: new data and a review of the literature Santiago Palacios, Pedro-Antonio Regidor, Enrico Colli,...
26 June, 2020During the COVID-19 pandemic it may be difficult to see women within the stipulated time for renewal of contraceptive prescriptions. Prioritizing the limited time slots for on site visits for women in need of new prescriptions/placements is likely to prevent the highest number of unplanned...
28 May, 2020May 2020 Contraception Atlas Europe Achievements The European Parliamentary Forum for Sexual & Reproductive Rights (https://www.epfweb.org) has produced the Contraception Atlas each year since 2017. The Atlas brings together data so that contraceptive services provided by European countries can be directly compared. Scores are assigned...
15 May, 2020Testing Times – Read the editorial, by Mary Short, Johannes Bitzer & Sam Rowlands, online now. “European life will never be the same again. The coronavirus pandemic has, and will, dramatically change how medicine is practised now and in the future. It also brings home, in case we did...
30 April, 2020