CLAE's
official site, in Spanish, offers important
information on EC science, advocacy, issues, and
CLAE activities.
CLAE, the Latin American Consortium for EC (LACEC
in English) is currently coordinated by Jimmy
Telleria, based at CISTAC in Bolivia. CLAE is
a network of non-governmental, governmental, private,
and public organizations and institutions that
work in healthcare, education, and sexual and
reproductive rights. CLAE has a website,
publishes a newsletter, and has issued a widely
used set of fact sheets. CLAE also has a lively
listserve to facilitate discussion and exchange
in the region.
The Consortium's mission is to contribute to the
overall improvement of health in the region, and
to the reduction of unintended pregnancy, maternal
mortality and unsafe abortion in Latin America.
Our mission is carried out through advocacy, dissemination
of information and access to emergency contraception
within the context of sexual and reproductive
rights. Goals include:
- To normalize the use of EC and to include
it in the family planning, reproductive health
and sexual violence guidelines of ministries
of health in all countries in the region
- To disseminate information about and increase
access to EC in its different forms (i.e., the
Yuzpe method and dedicated products), with a
gender perspective, to all socio-economic levels
of the population.
- To expand, where possible, social marketing
initiatives for the commercialization and distribution
of an EC dedicated product to all countries
of the region.
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