Ibis Reproductive Health

Emergency contraception information in Arabic

In collaboration with the Office of Population Research, Princeton University, we developed and launched the first Arabic-language website dedicated to emergency contraception (EC). Entitled “Man`a al-Hamal al-Tari’” (the emergency prevention of pregnancy), the website aims to provide medically accurate, culturally appropriate, and linguistically accessible information about EC to Arabic speakers in the Middle East and beyond. Over the course of the first 19 months of the website’s operation, it received nearly 40,000 visits and now receives more than 5,000 visits per month. We continue to monitor the use patterns of the website.

Resources:

Arabic EC website
Disseminating on-line reproductive health information in Arabic: Results from a survey of users of an emergency contraception website Request article
Foster A, Wynn L, Rouhana A, Polis C, Trussell J. Reproductive health, the Arab world and the internet: usage patterns of an Arabic-language emergency contraception website. Contraception. 2005; 72;130-137. Request article
Wynn L, Foster A, Rouhana A, Trussell J. The politics of emergency contraception in the Arab world: Reflections on Western assumptions and the potential influence of religious and social factors. Harvard Health Policy Review. Spring 2005; 6(1):38-47. Request article

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