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In Mongolia, you can obtain condoms and oral contraceptives (birth control pills) without a prescription at pharmacies or clinics.<ref>[http://ocsotc.org/wp-content/uploads/worldmap/worldmap.html Global Oral Contraception Availability]</ref> <ref>[http://freethepill.org/where-on-earth/ Free the Pill: Where on Earth?]</ref> You can access other forms of contraception, such as intra- | In Mongolia, you can obtain condoms and oral contraceptives (birth control pills) without a prescription at pharmacies or clinics.<ref>[http://ocsotc.org/wp-content/uploads/worldmap/worldmap.html Global Oral Contraception Availability]</ref> <ref>[http://freethepill.org/where-on-earth/ Free the Pill: Where on Earth?]</ref> You can access other forms of contraception, such as intra-uterine devices (IUDS) and contraceptive injectables, at certain hospitals and clinics as well. However, Mongolian pharmacies have historically experienced stock-outs, especially in Ulaanbaatar, so contraceptives may not be available at certain pharmacies. Furthermore, there has reportedly been a lack of contraceptives available at youth-friendly clinics, so you may need to contact more than one clinic to find the contraceptive services you desire.<ref>[http://mongolia.unfpa.org/sites/default/files/pub-pdf/UNFPA_FPsitutionalanalysis_ENG.pdf SITUATION ANALYSIS OF FAMILY PLANNING IN MONGOLIA, 2016]</ref> | ||
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Historically, the Mongolian government has neglected family planning services -- and, in fact, the country had essentially no family planning services until the 1990s. Before that time, the Mongolian government had a pro-natalist policy. The importation of contraceptives was highly restricted,<ref>[https://www.popline.org/node/270884 Knowledge, attitude and practice of family planning in Mongolia, 1997]</ref> and most Mongolian women could only access intra- | Historically, the Mongolian government has neglected family planning services -- and, in fact, the country had essentially no family planning services until the 1990s. Before that time, the Mongolian government had a pro-natalist policy. The importation of contraceptives was highly restricted,<ref>[https://www.popline.org/node/270884 Knowledge, attitude and practice of family planning in Mongolia, 1997]</ref> and most Mongolian women could only access intra-uterine devices (IUDs). No other contraceptive options were available.<ref>[http://mongolia.unfpa.org/sites/default/files/pub-pdf/UNFPA_FPsitutionalanalysis_ENG.pdf SITUATION ANALYSIS OF FAMILY PLANNING IN MONGOLIA, 2016]</ref> In the 1990s, the Mongolian Family Welfare Association (MFWA), an affiliate of the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF), created a branch of the organization that specifically targeted women in rural communities. MFWA provided reproductive health lessons to schools, though it struggled to reach many Mongolians who lived in remote and rural areas, often nomadically.<ref>[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12293466 Family planning reaches Mongolia's spacious steppes, 1997]</ref> | ||
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** Tip: At [https://mariestopes.org/where-we-work/mongolia/ Marie Stopes Mongolia], an NGO that focuses on sexual and reproductive health care services, you can find Trust and Mungulung brand condoms. According to the Marie Stopes Mongolia website, "Despite the country’s logistical challenges, our condom brands ‘Trust’ and ‘Mungulug’ are available nearly everywhere in Mongolia. They’re distributed in a range of places including markets, pharmacies, hotels, and even taxis, and they’re an affordable option for many poor and young Mongolians. We specifically market our ‘Trust’ condom brand to young Mongolians, who are particularly at risk of STIs. Through advertising, packaging and making the brand accessible via youth-friendly channels, we’re working to ensure young people in Mongolia can have safe and healthy sex." | ** Tip: At [https://mariestopes.org/where-we-work/mongolia/ Marie Stopes Mongolia], an NGO that focuses on sexual and reproductive health care services, you can find Trust and Mungulung brand condoms. According to the Marie Stopes Mongolia website, "Despite the country’s logistical challenges, our condom brands ‘Trust’ and ‘Mungulug’ are available nearly everywhere in Mongolia. They’re distributed in a range of places including markets, pharmacies, hotels, and even taxis, and they’re an affordable option for many poor and young Mongolians. We specifically market our ‘Trust’ condom brand to young Mongolians, who are particularly at risk of STIs. Through advertising, packaging and making the brand accessible via youth-friendly channels, we’re working to ensure young people in Mongolia can have safe and healthy sex." | ||
* You can obtain '''contraceptive pills (birth control pills)''' from many places, including pharmacies, family health centers, Soum Health Centres (SHC), the Aimag health centers, district health centers, specialized centers, hospitals, and Regional diagnostic and treatment centers (RDT). However, Mongolian pharmacies have experienced stock-outs in recent years, according to a 2016 report from the UNFPA<ref>[http://mongolia.unfpa.org/sites/default/files/pub-pdf/UNFPA_FPsitutionalanalysis_ENG.pdf SITUATION ANALYSIS OF FAMILY PLANNING IN MONGOLIA, 2016]</ref>, so you may need to visit more than one pharmacy to find the contraceptives you desire. The stock-outs tend to be more worse in Ulaanbaatar than in smaller towns or more remote areas. If you want to visit a local clinic for birth control pills, you can potentially find them at the [https://www.mariestopes.org/where-we-work/mongolia/ Marie Stopes Mongolia support office]. They also distribute condoms and emergency contraception. Address: Marie Stopes International Clinics & Contraceptives (MSICC), 3rd Microdistrict, 14th khoroo, L. Enebish Avenue 11/1, Bayangol District, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Phone: +976 11 7711 6194 | * You can obtain '''contraceptive pills (birth control pills)''' from many places, including pharmacies, family health centers, Soum Health Centres (SHC), the Aimag health centers, district health centers, specialized centers, hospitals, and Regional diagnostic and treatment centers (RDT). However, Mongolian pharmacies have experienced stock-outs in recent years, according to a 2016 report from the UNFPA<ref>[http://mongolia.unfpa.org/sites/default/files/pub-pdf/UNFPA_FPsitutionalanalysis_ENG.pdf SITUATION ANALYSIS OF FAMILY PLANNING IN MONGOLIA, 2016]</ref>, so you may need to visit more than one pharmacy to find the contraceptives you desire. The stock-outs tend to be more worse in Ulaanbaatar than in smaller towns or more remote areas. If you want to visit a local clinic for birth control pills, you can potentially find them at the [https://www.mariestopes.org/where-we-work/mongolia/ Marie Stopes Mongolia support office]. They also distribute condoms and emergency contraception. Address: Marie Stopes International Clinics & Contraceptives (MSICC), 3rd Microdistrict, 14th khoroo, L. Enebish Avenue 11/1, Bayangol District, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Phone: +976 11 7711 6194 | ||
* You can get an '''intra- | * You can get an '''intra-uterine device (IUD)''' at at the Soum Health Centres (SHC), the Aimag health centers, district health centers, specialized centers, hospitals, and Regional diagnostic and treatment centres (RDT). For example, at [http://www.intermed.mn/ Intermed Hospital Mongolia], they have 2 types of IUD, one costs around 100,000 MNT, and other one, which is Mirena, costs around 900,000 MNT (as of May 2018). However, one should be aware that not all hospitals have IUDs or perform IUD insertions in Mongolia. | ||
* You can obtain '''contraceptive shots/injectables''' at the Soum Health Centres (SHC), the Aimag health centers, district health centers, specialized centers, hospitals, and Regional diagnostic and treatment centres (RDT). | * You can obtain '''contraceptive shots/injectables''' at the Soum Health Centres (SHC), the Aimag health centers, district health centers, specialized centers, hospitals, and Regional diagnostic and treatment centres (RDT). | ||
* You can obtain '''contraceptive implants''' at the Aimag health centers, district health centers, specialized centers,, hospitals, and Regional diagnostic and treatment centres (RDT). | * You can obtain '''contraceptive implants''' at the Aimag health centers, district health centers, specialized centers,, hospitals, and Regional diagnostic and treatment centres (RDT). | ||
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* In Mongolia, you can legally obtain emergency contraceptive pills (morning after pills) with a prescription at pharmacies, clinics, social marketing programs (such as PSI, DKT, etc), and at programs affiliated with the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF).<ref>[http://www.cecinfo.org/country-by-country-information/status-availability-database/countries/mongolia/ EC Status and Availability: Mongolia]</ref> | * In Mongolia, you can legally obtain emergency contraceptive pills (morning after pills) with a prescription at pharmacies, clinics, social marketing programs (such as PSI, DKT, etc), and at programs affiliated with the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF).<ref>[http://www.cecinfo.org/country-by-country-information/status-availability-database/countries/mongolia/ EC Status and Availability: Mongolia]</ref> | ||
* Aside from pharmacies, you can also consider obtaining emergency contraceptive pills (morning after pill) from the [https://www.mariestopes.org/where-we-work/mongolia/ Marie Stopes Mongolia support office]. They also distribute condoms and birth control pills. Address: Marie Stopes International Clinics & Contraceptives (MSICC), 3rd Microdistrict, 14th khoroo, L. Enebish Avenue 11/1, Bayangol District, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Phone: +976 11 7711 6194 | * Aside from pharmacies, you can also consider obtaining emergency contraceptive pills (morning after pill) from the [https://www.mariestopes.org/where-we-work/mongolia/ Marie Stopes Mongolia support office]. They also distribute condoms and birth control pills. Address: Marie Stopes International Clinics & Contraceptives (MSICC), 3rd Microdistrict, 14th khoroo, L. Enebish Avenue 11/1, Bayangol District, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Phone: +976 11 7711 6194 | ||
* You can also get an intra- | * You can also get an intra-uterine device (IUD) as a form of emergency contraception. To learn more details, you can visit the "Contraception" and "Gynecological Exams" section. | ||
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* Click [https://www.equaldex.com/region/mongolia here] to learn about LGBTQ rights and laws in Mongolia. As of May 2018, homosexuality is legal in Mongolia, and there are laws to protect LGBTQ people from housing and employment discrimination. Same sex marriage is not recognized. The laws around gender change are ambiguous (i.e. it is not clearly legal or illegal). However, it is important to note that homosexuality was illegal and technically punishable by imprisonment in Mongolia until 2002. | * Click [https://www.equaldex.com/region/mongolia here] to learn about LGBTQ rights and laws in Mongolia. As of May 2018, homosexuality is legal in Mongolia, and there are laws to protect LGBTQ people from housing and employment discrimination. Same sex marriage is not recognized. The laws around gender change are ambiguous (i.e. it is not clearly legal or illegal). However, it is important to note that homosexuality was illegal and technically punishable by imprisonment in Mongolia until 2002. | ||
* [http://lgbtcentre.mn/en/home/ The LGBT Centre (Mongolia)] The LGBT Centre, a non-membership, non-partisan, non-profit and non-governmental organisation, is the first and only LGBTI human rights organisation in Mongolia working on a wide range of issues pertinent to sexuality and gender minorities in Mongolia since its official registration in December 2009. The mandate of the organisation is to build capacity of all relevant actors and institutions, both public and private, to facilitate substantive enjoyment of human rights by all members of the LGBTIQ community in Mongolia through sensitisation, information sharing, curriculum development, training provision, building networks and communities of practice and through promotion of corporate social responsibility where relevant, to end discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and/or gender identity and expression. The Centre's successful policy advocacy strategy led to the outlawing of discrimination as a criminal offence under the new Criminal Code of 2015, prohibition of discrimination in crucial health sector laws and proposed new Labour Law, with protected grounds including sexual orientation, gender identity and health status. Address: 4th floor, 10/5 building, Undur Gegeen Zanabazar street, 15th khoroo, Bayangol District, UB, Mongolia. Phone: 976-77400323, 24-hour helpline: 976-95159270 Email: info@lgbtcentre.mn | |||
* [http://mones.org.mn/en/ Women's Fund Mongolia (Mones)]: "MONES was established in 2000 with the purpose of contributing to: Increasing participation of women in decision-making levels; Creating an enabling environment for women to carry out social change projects and implement their ideas; Development of Mongolian women’s movement; Fostering networking and collaboration with women’s movement around the world; Creating a society respectful of human rights, equality and social justice." Address: Mongolian Womens Fund, Sukhbaatar District, Baga Toiruu, 6th khoroo, 48th Building, Room #305, Ulaanbaatar City, Mongolia. Phone: 7711 9991. Email: info@mones.org.mn | * [http://mones.org.mn/en/ Women's Fund Mongolia (Mones)]: "MONES was established in 2000 with the purpose of contributing to: Increasing participation of women in decision-making levels; Creating an enabling environment for women to carry out social change projects and implement their ideas; Development of Mongolian women’s movement; Fostering networking and collaboration with women’s movement around the world; Creating a society respectful of human rights, equality and social justice." Address: Mongolian Womens Fund, Sukhbaatar District, Baga Toiruu, 6th khoroo, 48th Building, Room #305, Ulaanbaatar City, Mongolia. Phone: 7711 9991. Email: info@mones.org.mn | ||
* [http://www.iwammongolia.com/ The International Women's Association of Mongolia (IWAM)]: "The International Women's Association of Mongolia (IWAM) is a non-profit NGO run by its volunteer members, whose aim is to promote better understanding between women from different countries, cultures, and backgrounds; to familiarize foreign members with the culture, history, economy, and social setting of Mongolia and other member countries; and to organize and support activities that focus on helping vulnerable families, especially women and children." Postal Address: International Women's Association of Mongolia, PO Box 993, Central Post Office, Ulaanbaatar 211213, Mongolia. Email - General enquiries: iwamboard@gmail.com | * [http://www.iwammongolia.com/ The International Women's Association of Mongolia (IWAM)]: "The International Women's Association of Mongolia (IWAM) is a non-profit NGO run by its volunteer members, whose aim is to promote better understanding between women from different countries, cultures, and backgrounds; to familiarize foreign members with the culture, history, economy, and social setting of Mongolia and other member countries; and to organize and support activities that focus on helping vulnerable families, especially women and children." Postal Address: International Women's Association of Mongolia, PO Box 993, Central Post Office, Ulaanbaatar 211213, Mongolia. Email - General enquiries: iwamboard@gmail.com | ||