Birth Control in Chile

http://ipsnews2.wpengine.com/2001/08/rights-chile-ban-on-morning-after-pill-stirs-up-legal-arena/

http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0912/p01s04-woam.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/1517185.stm

from http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0912/p01s04-woam.html:
Santiago Court of Appeals prohibited the distribution and sale of the pharmaceutical Postinal

WHICH PHARMACIES?
WHAT MONTH DID THEY START SELLING?
ANY INFO ON WHERE IN CHILE?

for sale in private pharmacies

Date according to WHJ paper

from Santiago Times article on sluggish sales:
"Sales of Postinor 2, the contraceptive commonly known as "the morning after pill," have been slow during its first two weeks on the market. Grunenthal Pharmaceuticals, the company that produces the pill, reports that since its Sept. 12 launch only 100 pills have been sold. Market analysts speculate the controversy surrounding the pill's distribution has inhibited sales."

from http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/26/AR2006092600770.html:
"The morning-after pill became legal in Chile in 2002 after a Supreme Court battle, and two-pill packages sell in pharmacies for $22. But the government says that price is beyond the reach of poorer women. It noted that 3,954 packages of the pills were sold over 12 months in five affluent Santiago districts, and just 344 in five poorer ones."

from http://womensenews.org/story/reproductive-health/050401/chiles-pols-battle-over-emergency-contraception#.UVJRRhfCaSp:
About 18,000 doses sold in pharmacies in 2004.

and

from 2005 NotiSur article:
sales of Postinor-2 going up 80% between 2002 and 2004. Sales rose from 10,000 between January 2002 and January 2003 to 18,000 last year.

http://ipsnews2.wpengine.com/2001/08/rights-chile-ban-on-morning-after-pill-stirs-up-legal-arena/

Note: "In the Argentine city of Mendoza, a six-hour bus ride from Santiago, Imediat is sold without prescription, a drug based on levonorgestrel, at a price equivalent to 18 dollars for two pills, reported the Chilean daily ‘La Tercera’ Thursday."

At four Ahumeda Pharmacy locations in the city

http://santiagotimes.cl/chile/other/496-MORNING-AFTER-PILL-FOR-SALE-IN-SANTIAGO

Produced by Grunenthal Pharmaceuticals

http://santiagotimes.cl/chile/other/559-SLUGGISH-SALES-AFFECT-THE-MORNING-AFTER-PILL

from http://www.economist.com/node/7925036?story_id=7925036:
"[2006 article] For several years now, the private health services, used by better-off Chileans, have been prescribing the morning-after pill to teenagers even without their parents' consent, while the national health service, catering for poorer Chileans, is still restricting its use to rape victims."

from NotiSur article:
"The government had announced that after May 15 the medicine would be delivered to women at basic health clinics, even if the women were minors, if they sought to avoid a pregnancy caused by rape."

Actual date from ST article http://santiagotimes.cl/chile/other/4656-EXPERTS-ASSURE-MORNING-AFTER-PILL-IS-NOT-ABORTIVE

http://santiagotimes.cl/chile/other/4972-MORNING-AFTER-PILL-STILL-WIDELY-UNAVAILABLE

In speech at International Women's Day, Antonio Infante...

http://womensenews.org/story/reproductive-health/050401/chiles-pols-battle-over-emergency-contraception#.UVJRRhfCaSp

http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0912/p01s04-woam.html

WHJ article