Priced at only Ksh100 in most pharmacy outlets in Kenya, Levonorgestrel or simply known as Postinor-2 or further as P2, is an emergency contraceptive pill taken by women after sex to prevent ...

Dear Dr Mitchell, I took the Postinor 2 pill about two to three weeks ago and one week after I had my menses. I had sex after and the condom broke and I went to the doctor and got the pills again.

The drug in question is Postinor 2 (levonorgestrel), often called the morning-after pill. It doesn't need to be taken "the morning after" - it's most effective within 24 hours, but works very reliably ...

Levonorgestrel in Postinor-1, which is also called “the morning-after pill“, is thought to work primarily by preventing ovulation and fertilisation within the 1st two weeks of the month, ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Every month, about 50 women walk out of the Melbourne Sexual Health Centre with a prescription for Postinor-2, the latest and most ...

It has unfortunately been on sale in Australia for well over a year. The issue is to ensure that women know how Postinor-2 works and have access to medical advice to minimise its risks if they do use ...

• Postinor 2 is recommended for use during unsafe or ovulation days. • Level of the hormone levonorgestrel in P2 is at least 30 times higher than in other forms of contraception.

Former Health Secretary Alberto G. Romualdez set forth the position that the use of emergency contracepive pills "is not included among the methods recommended for family planning. Only the ...

Postinor (levonorgestrel), used as an emergency contraceptive pill, is indeed a synthetic progesterone which works by stopping or delaying the release of a female egg (ovulation). It may also slow ...