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[[File:Flag of Colombia.svg.png|300px | thumb|right|]]
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|colspan="8" style="text-align:center"|[[File:Flag of Colombia.svg.png|300px | thumb|right|]]
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| '''Contraception: Over-the-Counter'''
| condoms, pills
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| '''Contraception: Prescription/Clinic Required'''
| IUD, implant, shot, patch, ring,
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| '''Emergency Contraception'''
| no prescription required; widely available in pharmacies
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| '''STIs'''
| no travel restrictions
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| '''Menstrual Products'''
| pads, tampons, cups
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| '''Abortion Law'''
| not available upon request; legal in restricted circumstances
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| '''LGBTQ Laws'''
| homosexuality legal; gender change legal (surgery required)
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| '''Related Pages'''
| [[Bogotá]], [[Medellín]]
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On the other hand, Colombia has seen a massive expansion of its family planning services in the past few decades, particularly that of  
On the other hand, Colombia has seen a massive expansion of its family planning services in the past few decades, particularly that of  
[http://www.profamilia.org.co/ Asociación Pro-bienestar de la Familia Colombiana (Profamilia)], an affiiliate of the International Planned Parenthood Federation, which has sixty-six clinics and mobile health units, and accounts for nearly three-quarters of the country’s family planning capacity. As a result, fertility rate has fallen from 6 children per woman in the 1960s to just above replacement level (i.e. about 2 children per woman), as of 2017. This is largely due to increased literacy, family planning services, and urbanization in the country.<ref>[https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/co.html CIA World Factbook - Colombia]</ref> Meanwhile, homosexuality, gay marriage, and gender change are all legal in Colombia.<ref>[https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/co.html LGBT Rights in Colombia]</ref>
[http://www.profamilia.org.co/ Asociación Pro-bienestar de la Familia Colombiana (Profamilia)], an affiiliate of the International Planned Parenthood Federation, which has sixty-six clinics and mobile health units, and accounts for nearly three-quarters of the country’s family planning capacity. As a result, fertility rate has fallen from 6 children per woman in the 1960s to just above replacement level (i.e. about 2 children per woman), as of 2017. This is largely due to increased literacy, family planning services, and urbanization in the country.<ref>[https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/colombia/ CIA World Factbook - Colombia]</ref> Meanwhile, homosexuality, gay marriage, and gender change are all legal in Colombia.<ref>[https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/co.html LGBT Rights in Colombia]</ref>


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* If you want '''condoms''' ("condon" in Spanish), you can find them in pharmacies, drug stores, and sometimes in bathrooms at clubs and bars.
* If you want '''condoms''' ("condón" in Spanish), you can find them in pharmacies, drug stores, and sometimes in bathrooms at clubs and bars.
* If you want '''birth control pills''' ("píldoras anticonceptivas” in Spanish), you can find over 20 brands of combined and progestagen-only pills in Colombian pharmacies, including Belara, Cerazette, Cilest, Diane, Marvelon, Neogynon, Noral, Nordiol, Microfemin, Microfemin CD, Microgynon, Microgynon 28 and Nordette, etc.  
* If you want '''birth control pills''' ("píldoras anticonceptivas” in Spanish), you can find over 20 brands of combined and progestagen-only pills in Colombian pharmacies, including Belara, Cerazette, Cilest, Diane, Marvelon, Neogynon, Noral, Nordiol, Microfemin, Microfemin CD, Microgynon, Microgynon 28 and Nordette, etc.  
* If you want '''contraceptive injectables''' ("anticonceptivo inyectable" in Spanish), there are many options, including Cyclofem, Cyclofemina, Dahlia, Depo-Provera, Mesigyna, Norigynon, Progestin 100 and Progestin Depot.<ref>[[http://contraceptive.ippf.org/search?search.searchtext=&search.component=&search.countrycode=CO IPFF Colombia]</ref> You can get the injections at pharmacies or clinics in Colombia.
* If you want '''contraceptive injectables''' ("anticonceptivo inyectable" in Spanish), there are many options, including Cyclofem, Cyclofemina, Dahlia, Depo-Provera, Mesigyna, Norigynon, Progestin 100 and Progestin Depot.<ref>[[http://contraceptive.ippf.org/search?search.searchtext=&search.component=&search.countrycode=CO IPFF Colombia]</ref> You can get the injections at pharmacies or clinics in Colombia.
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* [http://www.clinicadelamujer.com.co/index.php/es/ Clinica de la Mujer]: This clinic, established in 1991, has been recommended by multiple locals. Address: Cra 19C No. 91-17, Bogota Colombia. Phone: Call +57 1 6161799. Email: anarino@clinicadelamujer.com.co
* Check out the [[Bogotá]] and [[Medellín]] for local recommendations of individual clinics and gynecologists.
** Recommended ob/gyn: Ricardo Martin in Clinica Santa Fe and Clinica de la Mujer: A local says: "He is amazing." Phone: 215-2300.
* [http://www.profamilia.org.co/ Asociación Pro-bienestar de la Familia Colombiana (Profamilia)]: They have many locations across the country, and they offer gynecological exams, as well as other medical and health services. You can learn more about their examination services [https://profamilia.org.co/inicio/mujer-2/servicios-mujer/consultas-mujer/ here]. "Profamilia operates sixty-six clinics and mobile health units in Colombia, accounting for nearly three-quarters of the country’s family planning capacity. It works to ensure poor people living in urban and rural communities are able to receive high-quality sexual and reproductive health services, including contraception, gynecological exams, pregnancy and STI testing, abortion, and cervical and breast cancer screenings. In 2015, Profamila provided more than three million services."


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* [http://www.profamilia.org.co/ Asociación Pro-bienestar de la Familia Colombiana (Profamilia)]: They have many locations across the country, and they offer fertility services. To learn more about their fertility services, click [https://profamilia.org.co/inicio/mujer-2/servicios-mujer/unidad-de-fertilidad-mujer/ here].


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* [http://www.profamilia.org.co/ Asociación Pro-bienestar de la Familia Colombiana (Profamilia)]: They have many locations across the country, and they offer abortion services. You can schedule a consultation for an abortion on their website by clicking [https://profamilia.org.co/aborto/agenda-tu-cita/ here]. To learn more about abortion from their website, click [https://profamilia.org.co/aborto/que-es-aborto/ here]. "Profamilia operates sixty-six clinics and mobile health units in Colombia, accounting for nearly three-quarters of the country’s family planning capacity. It works to ensure poor people living in urban and rural communities are able to receive high-quality sexual and reproductive health services, including contraception, gynecological exams, pregnancy and STI testing, abortion, and cervical and breast cancer screenings. In 2015, Profamila provided more than three million services."
* [http://www.orientame.org.co/  Fundación Oriéntame]: One of the two main nonprofit clinics in Bogotá that provide legal abortion services. You can [https://rewire.news/article/2014/02/05/experience-fundacion-orientame-bogota-model-reproductive-care-latin-america/ read an account] by someone who worked at Fundacion Orientame.
* [http://www.orientame.org.co/  Fundación Oriéntame]: One of the two main nonprofit clinics in Bogotá that provide legal abortion services. You can [https://rewire.news/article/2014/02/05/experience-fundacion-orientame-bogota-model-reproductive-care-latin-america/ read an account] by someone who worked at Fundacion Orientame.


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* [http://www.profamilia.org.co/ Asociación Pro-bienestar de la Familia Colombiana (Profamilia)]: They have many locations across the country, and they offer resources/support for victims of gender-based or domestic violence. To learn more, click [http://profamilia.org.co/inicio/mujer-2/servicios-mujer/violencia-mujer/ here].
* Casa de la Mujer, Apartado 36151, Bogota, Colombia. Tel. 248 2469.
* Casa de la Mujer, Apartado 36151, Bogota, Colombia. Tel. 248 2469.
* [http://www.familiesoffana.org/colombia/fana/ FANA]: "Located in Suba, the 11th locality of the Capital District of the Colombian capital city, Bogotá, FANA (the Spanish acronym for the Foundation for the Assistance of Abandoned Children) is a modern facility with up-to-date medical care, staff and equipment capable of caring for 150 children.  FANA is also able to offer prenatal and delivery services to any birth mother in need. Any child who is placed for adoption is cared for in a new born intensive care facility under the supervision of full-time physicians and medical personnel."
* [http://www.familiesoffana.org/colombia/fana/ FANA]: "Located in Suba, the 11th locality of the Capital District of the Colombian capital city, Bogotá, FANA (the Spanish acronym for the Foundation for the Assistance of Abandoned Children) is a modern facility with up-to-date medical care, staff and equipment capable of caring for 150 children.  FANA is also able to offer prenatal and delivery services to any birth mother in need. Any child who is placed for adoption is cared for in a new born intensive care facility under the supervision of full-time physicians and medical personnel."
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* [http://www.profamilia.org.co/ Asociación Pro-bienestar de la Familia Colombiana (Profamilia)]: "Profamilia operates sixty-six clinics and mobile health units in Colombia, accounting for nearly three-quarters of the country’s family planning capacity. It works to ensure poor people living in urban and rural communities are able to receive high-quality sexual and reproductive health services, including contraception, gynecological exams, pregnancy and STI testing, abortion, and cervical and breast cancer screenings. In 2015, Profamila provided more than three million services." Address: Asociación Pro-bienestar de la Familia Colombiana, Calle 34 #14-52, Bogotá, D.C. Colombia. P: (57-1) 339-0900
* [http://www.profamilia.org.co/ Asociación Pro-bienestar de la Familia Colombiana (Profamilia)]: "Profamilia operates sixty-six clinics and mobile health units in Colombia, accounting for nearly three-quarters of the country’s family planning capacity. It works to ensure poor people living in urban and rural communities are able to receive high-quality sexual and reproductive health services, including contraception, gynecological exams, pregnancy and STI testing, abortion, and cervical and breast cancer screenings. In 2015, Profamila provided more than three million services." Address: Asociación Pro-bienestar de la Familia Colombiana, Calle 34 #14-52, Bogotá, D.C. Colombia. P: (57-1) 339-0900
* [http://www.casmujer.com/ Casa de la Mujer]: "We are a feminist organization, legally constituted as a non-profit entity. We were born in 1982, in a country at war and in the midst of critical cases of violence against women that were not registered by official sources or recognized as a violation of their rights. After 35 years, we are assuming one of the most important challenges for the country: the construction of peace with social justice and with the active and equal participation of women. " Address: Corporación Casa de la Mujer, Carrera 35 # 53a - 86, Bogotá - Colombia. Telephones: (57 1) 221 8785 Fax (57 1) 222 9170. Email: coordinacion@casmujer.com.
* [http://www.casmujer.com/ Casa de la Mujer]: "We are a feminist organization, legally constituted as a non-profit entity. We were born in 1982, in a country at war and in the midst of critical cases of violence against women that were not registered by official sources or recognized as a violation of their rights. After 35 years, we are assuming one of the most important challenges for the country: the construction of peace with social justice and with the active and equal participation of women. " Address: Corporación Casa de la Mujer, Carrera 35 # 53a - 86, Bogotá - Colombia. Telephones: (57 1) 221 8785 Fax (57 1) 222 9170. Email: coordinacion@casmujer.com.
* [http://www.sismamujer.org/ Corporación Sisma Mujer]: Colombian feminist organization focused on women's citizenship and human rights
* [http://www.sismamujer.org/ Sisma Mujer]: Colombian feminist organization focused on women's citizenship and human rights. "We are a Colombian feminist organization that since 1998 has contributed to the consolidation of the women's movement, has worked with women victims of violence and discrimination because of being women, in private, public and armed conflict, for the expansion of their citizenship, the full validity of their human rights and the promotion of their role as transforming actors of their reality." Address: Carrera 13 No. 33 - 74, office 304. Email: infosisma@www.sismamujer.org. Phone: (+571) 285 93 19
* [https://www.sismamujer.org/# Sisma Mujer]: "We are a Colombian feminist organization that since 1998 has contributed to the consolidation of the women's movement, has worked with women victims of violence and discrimination because of being women, in private, public and armed conflict, for the expansion of their citizenship, the full validity of their human rights and the promotion of their role as transforming actors of their reality." Address: Carrera 13 No. 33 - 74, office 304. Email: infosisma@www.sismamujer.org. Phone: (+571) 285 93 19


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