Over-the-Counter Contraceptives Might Soon Be Covered by All Insurance
The Biden Administration proposed new rules designed to make getting contraception easier and less expensive.
There are many options available for preventing pregnancy, each with its own set of advantages and disadvantages. If you are sexually active and don’t want to get pregnant, you can explore the range of contraceptive choices available.
You can download our birth control method comparison chart and print out a copy to bring to your healthcare provider, so your provider can help you make the choice that’s best for you.
There are about 61 million women of reproductive age in the United States, many of whom will use some type of birth control for several decades. There are lots of options available, each with its own set of advantages and disadvantages. In this episode we’re talking with Dr. Noor Dasouki Abu-Alnadi, known as “Dr. Noor” to her patients, to explore what’s available including several new and exciting options.
With the wide range of contraceptive methods available to women, it can be challenging to understand all of the options and make a fully informed choice about which is the best fit. Listen to real women discuss their choices.
You can begin protecting your fertility well before you are ready to start a family. Nutrition, a healthy lifestyle and decisions about sexual behavior influence a person’s ability to conceive a child and a woman’s ability have a safe delivery. In the ideal situation, you will be able to:
Most people don’t realize that their reproductive health system is the most fragile system in the body. You need to know how to protect your future fertility by preventing sexually transmitted infections (STIs). When STIs go untreated they can cause fertility problems. For example:
What you can do to protect yourself and your fertility:
The Biden Administration proposed new rules designed to make getting contraception easier and less expensive.
Condom use is falling among young people around the world. Is a lack of sex education partly to blame?
A new study says we might be overestimating just how good tubal ligation (“getting your tubes tied” ) is at preventing pregnancy.
For a brief fortnight or so, the youth of the world are gathered in France to compete as comrades united by the Olympic banner (more or less, we can dream). They’re also knocking boots, and the condoms distributed by the organizing committee have some extra messaging.
Women in states with restrictive abortion laws have few options today. And yet the prescriptions for birth control methods has fallen since the Dobbs decision.
Currently, condoms are the only widely available, proven method for reducing transmission of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs) during sex. Condoms work.
Don’t be shy to talk with your partner about safer sex and condoms: For both of you, this is one of the most important conversations you can have. It’s also one of the smartest!
There is another update to the ongoing court battle over mifepristone, one of two drugs used in most medication abortion.
ASHA believes that all people have the right to the information and services that will help them to have optimum sexual health. We envision a time when stigma is no longer associated with sexual health and our nation is united in its belief that sexuality is a normal, healthy, and positive aspect of human life.
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