Emergency contraception provider kits available
Do you have questions about emergency contraceptive pills (ECPs) or other forms of emergency contraception? A comprehensive provider packet has been mailed to members of many professional organizations and family planning agencies, thanks to efforts by sponsor Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation of Menlo Park, CA, and cosponsors American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and Association of Reproductive Health Professionals, both based in Washington, DC. The Program for Appropriate Technology in Health of Seattle, a nonprofit international health organization, prepared the information included in the provider packet.
Kits provide facts, forms, protocols
The centerpiece of the compilation is a provider resource book, with current information about prescribing practices for emergency contraceptive pills, minipills, and IUDs; counseling issues; and service delivery considerations, including pharmacist/prescriber collaborative agreements for ECPs. The resource book also contains sample use instructions in English and Spanish, prescription blanks, informed consent forms, and screening protocols that can be adapted or photocopied for general use.
Other items in the packet include a small poster, client brochures for adults and young adults, a fact sheet about emergency contraception, and an enrollment form for the national Emergency Contraceptive Hotline and Web site. (Get full details on the kits from Contraceptive Technology Update, May 1997, p. 53.)
Packets can be ordered by writing to: Marketing Department, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, 810 Seventh Ave., New York, NY 10019. Telephone: (800) 669-0156. Fax: (212) 261-4352. Packets are $5 each with 75 cents shipping and handling (plus sales tax in California, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, and Illinois).
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