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V. 60 N. 2 (2011)
https://doi.org/10.4081/mem.2011.170
Ulipristal acetate. An emergency contraceptive?
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The large increase in pregnancies and abortions in adolescents appears to justify taking measures to prevent them. Although the right solution to the problem is undoubtedly through educating young people in the proper use of sexuality, and especially in considering it as a fundamental part of something much wider like human love, certain classes advocate resolving it by implementing the use of emergency contraception as the only contraceptive measure. One of the latest drugs marketed for this purpose is Ulipristal acetate, which began to be distributed in some European countries in November 2009. This paper refers to the chemical composition of Ulipristal acetate, its contraceptive efficacy, the side effects, which are not very significant, and especially to the mechanism of action by which this drug prevents unwanted pregnancies, concluding that at least 60% of the time it acts by an anti-implantation mechanism, although this depends to a large extent on the day on which the woman takes it, within her reproductive cycle, and on the time from sexual intercourse until she takes the drug.
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Ulipristal acetate. An emergency contraceptive? (2011). Medicina e Morale, 60(2). https://doi.org/10.4081/mem.2011.170
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