Community Women and Reproductive Autonomy: Building an Infrastructure for Long-Acting Reversible Contraception (LARC) Services in a Mobile Health Clinic

Egypt Family Planning Method Mix Indicates Shifting toward Hormonal Contraceptives

“…In addition, it provided thinking about the policy of involvement of nurses in IUD insertion. Contraceptive technology has to work on safer IUD with less side effects [31].…”

Building reproductive justice into the safety net

“…Mobile Outreach Clinic has expanded upon the infrastructure for the provision of free LARC to underserved patients (Nall et al., 2019), using Sistersong's definition of reproductive justice as the guiding principle for the structure of our services (Figure 1).…”

“…Mobile Outreach Clinic has experienced growth in its education and provision of contraceptive services since its inception in 2010, most recently increasing access to free LARC insertions (Nall et al., 2019). Like many SRH health providers, we are reassessing our initial “LARC first” fervor and seeking to recalibrate our approach, placing greater emphasis on the needs and preferences of individual patients while still increasing access to accurate information and a wide range of contraceptive options.…”

“…Care coordinators have no formal health professional training; rather, they receive a short period of specialized training and are utilized at MOC in a way that resembles the use of Community Health Workers (Nall et al., 2019; Nguyen et al., 2019). CCs are undergraduate and graduate‐level, pre‐health students that serve as a combination of medical assistant and case manager at MOC.…”

Reproductive Health and Coronavirus Disease 2019–Induced Economic Contracture: Lessons From the Great Recession

“… 51 LARC uptake in the patient population under study was also significantly higher compared with the 3% reported earlier by another mobile health center program that only offered hormonal IUDs as an option in 2017. 52 This finding suggests that when cost is not a barrier, economically disadvantaged women and people who menstruate desire access to reliable contraception. Although access to effective contraception is important, it is also equally important to ensure that these methods are provided to all communities, especially to marginalized communities without coercion and by using a shared decision-making model.…”