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===Laws & Social Stigmas=== | ===Laws & Social Stigmas=== | ||
In Ghana, you purchase emergency without a prescription. | |||
===What to Get & Where to Get It=== | ===What to Get & Where to Get It=== | ||
* In Ghana, you can purchase emergency (morning after pill) without a prescription at pharmacies. Some brands you can expect to find are NorLevo 1.5mg (take 1 pill within 120 hours after unprotected sex) and Pregnon (take 2 pills within 120 hours after unprotected sex). | |||
* If you can't access dedicated emergency contraception, you can use birth control pills as replacement EC instead. To do this with progestin-only pills, you can take Ovrette (take 40 pills within 120 hours after unprotected sex). To do this with progestin-estrogen combined pills, you can take Lo-Femenal or Microgynon-30 (take 4 pills within 120 hours after unprotected sex and take 4 more pills 12 hours later). For combined pills with in 28-day packs, only the first 21 pills can be used. | |||
===Costs=== | ===Costs=== | ||
In 2014, the average cost of EC ranged from 4 to 19 Cedis ($1.20 - $5.78). | |||
==Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs/STDs)== | ==Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs/STDs)== | ||