Glossary Terms

Pregnancy Prevention Plan

The term used in the United States to describe a set of interventions intended to reduce the likelihood of pregnancy during treatment with a medicinal product with known or potential teratogenic effects. The scope of such a plan is to ensure that female patients are not pregnant when starting therapy and do not become pregnant during the course and/or soon after stopping the therapy. Pregnancy Prevention Plans are also known as Pregnancy Prevention Programmes.

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