Planned Parenthood's breast health initiative will also expand the breast health education provided through its promotores community health worker program, which reaches thousands of Latinas every year in 16 communities, educating women and
their families about reproductive health issues, connecting them to Planned Parenthood health centers for health care services, and helping them navigate the complicated health care system when follow up care is needed.
Not exact matches
The American Fertility Association — The American Fertility Association (The AFA) is a leader in providing men and women,
health care professionals, public officials and the media, both nationally and internationally, with information
about infertility treatments,
reproductive and sexual
health and
family building options including adoption and third - party solutions.
While the attention of researchers has focused on the role of formal education in reducing fertility, soap operas on radio and television can even more quickly change people's attitudes
about reproductive health, gender equity,
family size, and environmental protection.
AASECT Certified Sexuality Educators teach and train
about a range of topics, including but not limited to sexual
health; sexual and
reproductive anatomy and physiology;
family planning, contraception, and pregnancy / childbirth; sexually transmitted infections; gender identity and roles; gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender issues; sexual function and dysfunction; sexual pleasure; sexual variation; sexuality and disability; sexuality and chronic illness; sexual development across the lifespan; sexual abuse, assault, and coercion; and sexuality across cultures.
Demonstrate effective communication and counseling skills
about reproductive health with clients and their
families.
Since 2005, those providers have had access to between roughly $ 35 million and $ 40 million a year to provide services to these women — who are but a fraction of the hundreds of thousands of women who actually need services in Texas; with Texas» dubious claim to fame as the state with the highest percentage of uninsured people (
about 26 % in 2009, according to the Kaiser
Family Foundation), the number of Texas women in need of
reproductive health care is roughly 1.5 million, according to the Guttmacher Institute.
The bill includes measures to fully fund the nation's
family planning program (Title X), expand access to
reproductive health care services through Medicaid, require insurance companies to cover birth control if they cover other prescription drugs, protect the ability of rape survivors to access emergency contraception (EC) in the emergency room, improve public awareness
about EC, and provide teens with medically accurate, age appropriate sex education.
The Planned Parenthood Action Fund exists to ensure that elected officials support policies and programs that help women and their
families make responsible choices
about family planning and
reproductive health.
By providing medical services, education, training, and advocacy, PPM seeks to help individuals make informed decisions
about their
reproductive health,
family planning options, and sexuality.
Learn
about reproductive rights and
health care issues, including contraception, sex education, pregnancy, abortion, and international
family planning.
In fact, more than 90 percent of the care Planned Parenthood
health centers offer nationwide is preventive, helping women and
families make responsible decisions
about their sexual and
reproductive health, their lives, and their futures.
The Action Fund's primary purpose is educating voters
about public policies that impact
reproductive health care and rights — such as adequate funding for
family planning services, access to safe and affordable abortion, the promotion of medically - accurate, age - appropriate sex education for our youth, increased access to emergency contraception and confidential
health services for minors.