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  Emergency Contraception: Current Status in India

  By Swayam Pragyan Parida, Vikas Bhatia

  Abstract: Worldwide, the incidence of unsafe abortion has increased in spite of gradual increase in use of contraceptives. About one-third of pregnancies are unplanned and 20% pregnancies end in abortion. Lack of knowledge on emergency contraceptives is one of the reasons behind unplanned pregnancies in many developing countries. As per NFHS-3, the overall knowledge about EC is meagre 12% among currently married women with several states having lower than 5%. Levonorgestrel …

  Published in Research and Reviews: A Journal of Medicine · Vol. 4, Issue 2, 2014 · pp. 12–15 Read article →