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===Laws & Social Stigmas=== | ===Laws & Social Stigmas=== | ||
In Qatar, you can purchase birth control pills over-the-counter (no prescription is required) at pharmacies. You don't need a marriage certificate and there are no age restrictions. Condoms are also available at stores. It is estimated that about 15.8% of Qatari women | In Qatar, you can purchase birth control pills over-the-counter (no prescription is required) at pharmacies. You don't need a marriage certificate and there are no age restrictions. Condoms are also available at stores. It is estimated that about 36.7% of Qatari women use some form of modern contraception and 19.2% have unmet family planning needs. According to a 2015 study, the most popular forms of contraception are birth control pills (used by 15.8% of Qatari women of reproductive age), IUDs (12.7%) and injectable (5.1%). There is relatively low usage of condoms as the primary contraceptive method (5.1%),<ref>[http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/population/publications/pdf/family/trendsContraceptiveUse2015Report.pdf Trends in Contraceptive Use Worldwide 2015]</ref> which may be partially due to the government's strong emphasis on sex after marriage. | ||
While the average woman in Qatar gets married at 25 years old,<ref>[https://www.quandl.com/collections/society/age-at-first-marriage-female-by-country Age at First Marriage - Female By Country]</ref> many women get married as teenagers or young adults. For this reason, pharmacists can't assume that young people who are buying birth control are unmarried. There have been some cases of pharmacists who refused to sell birth control to very young-looking people, but from a legal perspective, there are actually no age restrictions. | |||
===What to Get & Where to Get It=== | ===What to Get & Where to Get It=== | ||