{"id":941,"date":"2024-06-01T00:21:53","date_gmt":"2024-06-01T00:21:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/research-finds-limits-to-access-of-emergency-contraceptive-pill-in-australia\/"},"modified":"2024-06-01T00:21:53","modified_gmt":"2024-06-01T00:21:53","slug":"research-finds-limits-to-access-of-emergency-contraceptive-pill-in-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/research-finds-limits-to-access-of-emergency-contraceptive-pill-in-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"Research finds limits to access of emergency contraceptive pill in Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The accessibility of first-line oral emergency contraceptives in Australian community pharmacies is problematic\u2014with a national survey finding almost one-third reporting they do not stock the ulipristal acetate pill that has been recommended by medical authorities. Only 70% of the 233 pharmacies surveyed stocked ulipristal acetate emergency contraceptive (EC) pills, compared to levonorgestrel, which was stocked at 98%. The survey also found that ulipristal acetate was much less likely to be stocked in community pharmacies in rural and remote areas and was even more expensive when it was. &#8220;This is despite <a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/research-finds-limits-to-access-of-emergency-contraceptive-pill-in-australia\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The accessibility of first-line oral emergency contraceptives in Australian community pharmacies is problematic\u2014with a national survey finding almost one-third reporting they do not stock the ulipristal acetate pill that has been recommended by medical authorities. Only 70% of the 233 pharmacies surveyed stocked ulipristal acetate emergency contraceptive (EC) pills, compared to levonorgestrel, which was stocked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-news"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}