9 Oct 2020

Family Planning warns over oral contraceptive shortage

From Checkpoint, 6:15 pm on 9 October 2020

Family Planning was not planning for an unprecedented shortage of oral contraceptives, but its now faced with supplies of four brands running out in the next few weeks.

And it is warning women to find an alternative.

About 25,000 women take the four contraceptive pills affected - two kinds of Brevinor along with Norimin and Necon. Pharmac says the supplier Pfizer does not expect them to be back in stock until mid-February next year.

Family Planning's national Nursing Advisor Rose Stewart says it's a problem at the source.