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Objectives New to Healthy People 2020
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FP HP2020–15:
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Increase the percentage of women in need of publicly supported contraceptive services and supplies who receive those services and supplies.
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Status: New to Healthy People 2020.
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Objective Clarification:
I suggest revising the word "women" to "females" to better reflect the inclusion of adolescents in this objective.
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Objective Text:
The National Campaign supports this objective, but would recommend defining the term "in need" if possible.
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Objective Clarification, Objective Text:
Objective should be expanded to include men.
Change text to:
Increase the percentage of those in need of publicly supported contraceptive services and supplies who receive those services and supplies.
a. Women
b. Men
Both men and women need contraceptive services and supplies.
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Objective Text:
Women are not the only people who are in need of publicly supported contraceptive services. Since science is continuing to advance, many new preventative things are coming out. Men may feel embarrassed to go to a local Wal-Mart, (or anywhere), and buy a box of condoms. What would happen in Wal-Mart were to put an age limit on who could buy condoms and who couldn't? Many more males would be participating in unprotected sex or having a harder time of finding condoms to actually protect themselves. This Objective should be opened up for both males and females.
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It is important to provide options for those in need to plan pregnancies and be protected from STDs . AFPC supports this objective and believes that all persons have a right to family planning and reproductive health. AFPC suggests including men in the objective in order to capture all those interested in receiving contraceptive services and supplies.
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Data Source:
. There are an estimated 66 million women of reproductive age (13-44) in the U.S., and more than half a million are sexually active and able to become pregnant but who do not wish to become pregnant. According to the Guttmacher Institute, more than 17 million women were in need of publicly funded contraceptive services and supplies in 2006, a number that has increased by more than one million since 2000.
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There are an estimated 66 million women of reproductive age (13–44) in the United States, and more than half (36 million) are in need of contraceptive services and supplies (i.e. they are sexually active and able to become pregnant, but do not wish to become pregnant). According to the Guttmacher Institute, more than 17 million women were in need of publicly funded contraceptive services and supplies in 2006, a number that has increased by more than one million since 2000. NFPRHA fully supports the inclusion of this new objective addressing women in need of publicly funded contraceptive services and supplies.
Source: Guttmacher Institute
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Add a "full range of reproductive services, including abortion services is needed".
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Objective Clarification:
I agree with re-phrasing the objective, to read that agencies and organizations that provide publicly supported contraceptive services and supplies are able to continue doing so to provide said services and supplies to both women and men in need.
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Objective Clarification:
What about phrasing like this: Increase the availability to access publicly supported contraceptive services and suppplies to WIN and men.
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Objective Clarification, Objective Text:
Agree with Kurt Conklin/SIECUS - this goal should include men.
Change "women" to "those" ("Increase the percentage of those in need of ...")
Add sub-items for Women and men
a. Women
b. Men
Men need contraceptive services and supplies also.
This would help address health equity (men are often underserved in family planning)
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Objective Text:
SIECUS applauds the inclusion of Objective 15 to increase access to publicly supported contraceptive services and supplies. SIECUS believes that all people, regardless of age or income, should have access to affordable, confidential sexual health services including, but not limited to, access to methods of contraception and disease prevention, testing for HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases, and prenatal care. SIECUS would encourage that Objective 15 address the right of all people, not just women, to access contraceptive services and supplies, since fathers can be more effective parents and partners when fully engaged in the contraceptive decision-making that affects their sexual relationships. Furthermore, SIECUS would urge that Objective 15 include a sub-section specific to school-based health centers. Research has demonstrated that sexually active young people enrolled in middle and secondary schools can benefit from access to school-based sexual and reproductive health services, including publicly supported contraceptive services. The overall goals of the Family Planning section of Healthy People 2020 would be better served if Objective 15 were to include a measure for increasing the percentage of schools which provide publicly supported contraceptive services.
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It is imperative that all women have receive these services and supplies no matter what their socioeconomic status.
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Objective Text:
It is vital that low income women receive the family planning services they need to control their reproductive future and work their way out of poverty.
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