Gajanan S Sanap, Sachin S Laddha, Antariksha Singh
Objective: This article provides an overview of the clinical management of emergency contraceptive pills (ECPs). Youth, both married and unmarried, are commonly ineffective users of contraceptives as they begin to establish their sexual and birth control practices. Often they are poorly informed about sexuality and reproductive health. They may believe myths, for example, that a woman cannot get pregnant the first time she has sex. It is important that young men and women know about ECPs, so that if they have unprotected sex and find themselves facing the possibility of an unplanned pregnancy and its health and social consequences, they know that they can still act to prevent this occurrence.
Methods: Review of articles published in the previous 7 years was done. However, some of the older articles and research papers were also used to portray the historical background Emergency contraception s.
Conclusion: Emergency contraception provides women with a last chance to prevent pregnancy after unprotected sex. Women deserve that last chance, and barriers to availability should be eliminated. But it is unlikely that expanding access will have a major impact on reducing the rate of unintended pregnancy, primarily because the incidence of unprotected intercourse is so high, ECPs are only moderately effective, and ECPs are not used often enough.
