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Anticoncepcion de emergencia: un derecho de la mujer. La experiencia de Colombia. (Other Material: Profamilia).


Bogota: PROFAMILIA, 2001. 80 p.

Emergency Contraception Emergency Contraception Definition

Emergency contraception or emergency birth control uses either emergency contraceptive pills (ECPs) or a Copper-T intrauterine device (IUD) to help prevent pregnancy following unprotected vaginal intercourse.
: A Women's Right. The Colombian Experience details the administrative, legal and political steps involved in the introduction and distribution of a product sold specifically for use as emergency contraception in Colombia. The Instituto Nacional de Vigilancia de Medicamentos y Alimentos (INVIMA, National Drug and Food Regulatory Institute) named PROFAMILIA sole distributor of the drug Postinor 2, but the efforts of this family planning family planning

Use of measures designed to regulate the number and spacing of children within a family, largely to curb population growth and ensure each family’s access to limited resources.
 organization have been hampered by pressure from the Catholic Church hierarchy
This article refers to hierarchy in the Roman Catholic Church. For hierarchy in other communions with a "catholic" character, please see articles on the churches in question.
 to overturn this authorization The right or permission to use a system resource; the process of granting access. See access control. .

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Publication:Women's Health Journal
Date:Apr 1, 2002
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