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Several recent studies exploring the awareness of and the interest in IUDs among women seeking emergency contraception identified barriers to a greater use of IUDs including cost, waiting time (patients are not always able to get an IUD the day that they present for emergency contraception), low levels of awareness and understanding among patients and lack of participation among providers (Schwarz et al., 2009; Bharadwaj et al., 2011; Turok et al., 2011; Wright et al., 2012). Two of these studies found that around 12% of women presenting for emergency contraception or walk-in pregnancy testing would consider an IUD as an alternative to emergency contraceptive pills (Schwarz et al., 2009; Turok et al., 2011); this finding indicates the considerable potential to increase IUD uptake among women who have recently had unprotected sex. A study of contraceptive providers in CA, USA, showed that 85% of clinicians never recommended the IUD for emergency contraception, and 93% require at least two visits for an IUD insertion (Harper et al., 2012).

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