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Medicaid is a major source of coverage for contraceptive care for millions of people. Many Medicaid patients rely on a range of safety net providers including Planned Parenthood clinics, community health centers, state and local health departments, and Indian Health Services for their contraceptive care. The composition of the safety net and the relative role of the different providers vary considerably from state to state. Safety net providers served over…

Michelle RobertsDigital health editor Getty Images Fewer than one in 10 people who could benefit from obesity jabs like Wegovy are able to get them, warns the World Health Organization as it releases its first guidance on the drugs. With more than one billion people worldwide now obese, it is calling for more widespread and…

Access to contraception is a key element in shaping health and well-being for many women in their reproductive years. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) created a minimum set of benefits for most health plans regulated by the federal government and states, requiring most private plans to cover, without any cost sharing, the full range of…

For more than 50 years, a network of public programs and providers have assisted millions of reproductive age (18 to 49) women with low incomes in the U.S. to obtain sexual and reproductive health services. Over the past decade, the landscape of reproductive health care has changed dramatically as a result of shifts in federal…

Women aged in their 50s and 60s have been urged to practise safe sex after a rise in new cases of HIV in heterosexual groups. As World Aids Day is marked, campaigners say women in this age group could be at greater risk of catching the virus because some are not using condoms. Blue Sky…

Megan Daviesand Carwyn John,BBC Wales Ray Burmiston Russell T Davies, creator of It’s a Sin, has written about life in the ’80s when there was no treatment for HIV It’s a Sin writer Russell T Davies has warned “the fight is not over” when it comes to eradicating HIV. He said misinformation about the virus…