Advancing Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
 

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Media kits

High Rate of Return on Sexual and Reproductive Health Investment March 2005

Publicly Funded Family Planning Services Threatened February 2005

Fact sheets

Contraception Counts: Ranking State Efforts February 2006

Contraceptive Services  [PDF version] March 2005

Adding It Up: Examples of the Medical Benefits of Investing in Sexual and Reproductive Health [PDF] August 2004

Adding It Up: Examples of the Non-Medical Benefits of Investing in Sexual and Reproductive Health [PDF] August 2004

Adding It Up: Sexual and Reproductive Health and the Millennium Development Goals [PDF] August 2004

"State Policies in Brief"

Emergency Contraception [PDF] May 2008

Insurance Coverage of Contraceptives [PDF] May 2008

Refusing to Provide Health Services [PDF] May 2008

Restricting Insurance Coverage of Abortions [PDF] May 2008

State Family Planning Funding Restrictions [PDF] May 2008

State Funding of Abortion Under Medicaid [PDF] May 2008

State Medicaid Family Planning Eligibility Expansions [PDF] May 2008

Highlighted policy articles

Hiding in Plain Sight: The Role of Contraception in Preventing HIV  [PDF version] February 2008
Susan A. Cohen
Guttmacher Policy Review

Medicaid's Role in Family Planning [PDF] October 2007
Rachel Benson Gold, Cory L. Richards, Usha R. Ranji and Alina Salganicoff
Issues in Brief

A Long and Winding Road: Getting the HPV Vaccine to Women in the Developing World  [PDF version] August 2007
Susan A. Cohen
Guttmacher Policy Review

Challenges and Opportunities for U.S. Family Planning Clinics in Providing the HPV Vaccine  [PDF version] August 2007
Rachel Benson Gold
Guttmacher Policy Review

Stronger Together: Medicaid, Title X Bring Different Strengths to Family Planning Effort   [PDF version] May 2007
Rachel Benson Gold
Guttmacher Policy Review

Lessons for Family Planning Providers from Transitions In Maternal and Child Health Funding  [PDF version] March 2007
Rachel Benson Gold
Guttmacher Policy Review

The Heart of the Matter: Public Funding of Abortion for Poor Women in the United States  [PDF version] March 2007
Heather D. Boonstra
Guttmacher Policy Review

The Impact of Anti-Immigrant Policy on Publicly Subsidized Reproductive Health Care  [PDF version] March 2007
Adam Sonfield
Guttmacher Policy Review

Summer Price Spike: A Case Study About Publicly Funded Clinics and the Cost of Contraceptive Supplies  [PDF version] October 2006
Adam Sonfield
Guttmacher Policy Review

One Million New Women in Need of Publicly Funded Contraception August 2006
Adam Sonfield
Guttmacher Policy Review

Rekindling Efforts to Prevent Unplanned Pregnancy: A Matter of 'Equity and Common Sense'  [PDF version] August 2006
Rachel Benson Gold
Guttmacher Policy Review

New Federal Authority to Impose Medicaid Family Planning Cuts: A Deal States Should Refuse  [PDF version] June 2006
Rachel Benson Gold
Guttmacher Policy Review

Contraception Counts: Ranking States Efforts [PDF] February 2006
Cynthia Dailard
In Brief

Preventing Unintended Pregnancy: The Need And the Means  [PDF version] December 2003
Adam Sonfield
The Guttmacher Report on Public Policy

Medicaid Family Planning Expansions Hit Stride  [PDF version] October 2003
Rachel Benson Gold
The Guttmacher Report on Public Policy

Immigrants and Medicaid After Welfare Reform  [PDF version] May 2003
Rachel Benson Gold
The Guttmacher Report on Public Policy

New Medical Records Privacy Rule: The Interface with Teen Access to Confidential Care  [PDF version] March 2003
Cynthia Dailard
The Guttmacher Report on Public Policy

Emergency Contraception: Steps Being Taken to Improve Access  [PDF version] December 2002
Heather Boonstra
The Guttmacher Report on Public Policy

Nowhere But Up: Rising Costs for Title X Clinics  [PDF version] December 2002
Rachel Benson Gold
The Guttmacher Report on Public Policy

New Medicaid Initiative, State Budget Woes Collide  [PDF version] October 2002
Rachel Benson Gold
The Guttmacher Report on Public Policy

Federal Law Urged As Culmination of Contraceptive Insurance Coverage Campaign  [PDF version] October 2001
Susan A. Cohen
The Guttmacher Report on Public Policy

Challenges Facing Family Planning Clinics And Title X  [PDF version] April 2001
Cynthia Dailard
The Guttmacher Report on Public Policy

Title X: Three Decades of Accomplishment  [PDF version] February 2001
Rachel Benson Gold
The Guttmacher Report on Public Policy

School-Based Health Centers and the Birth Control Debate  [PDF version] October 2000
Cynthia Dailard
The Guttmacher Report on Public Policy

Rights Without Access: Revisiting Public Funding of Abortion for Poor Women  [PDF version] April 2000
Heather Boonstra and Adam Sonfield
The Guttmacher Report on Public Policy

"In Brief"

Medicaid's Role in Family Planning [PDF] October 2007
Rachel Benson Gold, Cory L. Richards, Usha R. Ranji and Alina Salganicoff

Interpreting Research Studies [PDF] July 2006

Contraception Counts: Ranking States Efforts [PDF] February 2006
Cynthia Dailard

U.S. Policy Can Reduce Cost Barriers to Contraception July 1999
Cynthia Dailard

The Cairo Consensus: Challenges for U.S. Policy at Home and Abroad August 1996

Highlighted research articles

Provision of Contraceptive and Related Services By Publicly Funded Family Planning Clinics, 2003  [PDF version]
Laura Duberstein Lindberg, Jennifer J. Frost, Caroline Sten and Cynthia Dailard
Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health Volume 38, Issue 3, September 2006

Adolescents' Use of Maternal and Child Health Services in Developing Countries  [PDF version]
Heidi W. Reynolds, Emelita L. Wong and Heidi Tucker
International Family Planning Perspectives Volume 32, Issue 1, March 2006

Confidential Reproductive Health Services for Minors: The Potential Impact of Mandated Parental Involvement for Contraception  [PDF version]
Rachel K. Jones and Heather Boonstra
Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health Volume 36, Issue 5, September/October 2004

The Availability and Use of Publicly Funded Family Planning Clinics: U.S. Trends, 1994-2001  [PDF version]
Jennifer J. Frost, Lori Frohwirth and Alison Purcell
Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health Volume 36, Issue 5, September/October 2004

U.S. Insurance Coverage of Contraceptives and the Impact Of Contraceptive Coverage Mandates, 2002  [PDF version]
Adam Sonfield, Rachel Benson Gold, Jennifer J. Frost
and Jacqueline E. Darroch
Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health Volume 36, Issue 2, March/April 2004

The Estimated Direct Medical Cost of Sexually Transmitted Diseases Among American Youth, 2000  [PDF version]
Harrell W. Chesson, John M. Blandford, Thomas L. Gift, Guoyu Tao and Kathleen L. Irwin
Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health Volume 36, Issue 1, January/February 2004

Services for Men at Publicly Funded Family Planning Agencies, 1998-1999  [PDF version]
Lawrence B. Finer, Jacqueline E. Darroch and Jennifer J. Frost
Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health Volume 35, Issue 5, September/October 2003

U.S. Agencies Providing Publicly Funded Contraceptive Services in 1999  [PDF version]
Lawrence B. Finer, Jacqueline E. Darroch and Jennifer J. Frost
Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health Volume 34, Issue 1, January/February 2002

Public or Private Providers? U.S. Women's Use Of Reproductive Health Services  [PDF version]
Jennifer J. Frost
Family Planning Perspectives Volume 33, Issue 1, January/February 2001

Family Planning Clinic Services in the United States: Patterns and Trends in the Late 1990s  [PDF version]
Jennifer J. Frost, Nalini Ranjit, Kathleen Manzella, Jacqueline E. Darroch and Suzette Audam
Family Planning Perspectives Volume 33, Issue 3, May/June 2001

Reproductive Health Services for Adolescents Under the State Children's Health Insurance Program  [PDF version]
Rachel Benson Gold and Adam Sonfield
Family Planning Perspectives Volume 33, Issue 2, March/April 2001

Family Planning Funding Through Four Federal-State Programs, FY 1997  [PDF version]
Rachel Benson Gold and Adam Sonfield
Family Planning Perspectives Volume 31, Issue 4, July/August 1999

The 'Illegitimacy Bonus' and State Efforts To Reduce Out-of-Wedlock Births  [PDF version]
Patricia Donovan
Family Planning Perspectives Volume 31, Issue 2, March/April 1999

Mainstreaming Contraceptive Services In Managed Care  [PDF version]
Rachel Benson Gold, Jacqueline E. Darroch and Jennifer J. Frost
Family Planning Perspectives Volume 30, Issue 5, September/October 1998

Clinic Provision of Contraceptive Services to Managed Care Enrollees  [PDF version]
Jennifer J. Frost
Family Planning Perspectives Volume 30, Issue 4, July/August 1998

The Provision of Public-Sector Services By Family Planning Agencies in 1995  [PDF version]
Jennifer J. Frost and Michele Bolzan
Family Planning Perspectives Volume 29, Issue 1, January/February 1997

Public Health Departments Providing Sexually Transmitted Disease Services  [PDF version]
David J. Landry and Jacqueline Darroch Forrest
Family Planning Perspectives Volume 28, Issue 6, November/December 1996

Impact of Publicly Funded Contraceptive Services On Unintended Pregnancies and Implications For Medicaid Expenditures  [PDF version]
Jacqueline Darroch Forrest and Renee Samara
Family Planning Perspectives Volume 28, Issue 5, September/October 1996

Family Planning Clinic Services In the United States, 1994  [PDF version]
Jennifer J. Frost
Family Planning Perspectives Volume 28, Issue 3, May/June 1996

Reports

State Government Innovation in the Design and Implementation of Medicaid Family Planning Expansions [PDF] March 2008
Adam Sonfield, Casey Alrich and Rachel Benson Gold

Public Funding for Family Planning, Sterilization and Abortion Services, FY 1980-2006 [PDF] January 2008
Adam Sonfield, Casey Alrich and Rachel Benson Gold

Estimating the Impact of Serving New Clients by Expanding Funding for Title X [PDF] November 2006
Jennifer J. Frost, Adam Sonfield, Rachel Benson Gold and Fatima H. Ahmed

Estimating the Impact of Expanding Medicaid Eligibility for Family Planning Services [PDF] August 2006
Jennifer J. Frost, Adam Sonfield and Rachel Benson Gold

Assessing Costs and Benefits of Sexual and Reproductive Health Interventions [PDF] December 2004
Michael Vlassoff, Susheela Singh, Jacqueline E. Darroch, Erin Carbone and Stan Bernstein

Adding It Up: The Benefits of Investing in Sexual and Reproductive Health Care [PDF] January 2004

Medicaid Support for Family Planning in the Managed Care Era [PDF] January 2001
Rachel Benson Gold, Cory L. Richards

Fulfilling the Promise: Public Policy and U.S. Family Planning Clinics [PDF] January 2000

Cost to Employer Health Plans of Covering Contraceptives June 1998
Jacqueline E. Darroch

Statistics

Cost Pressures on Title X Family Planning Grantees, FY 2001-2004 [PDF] August 2006
Adam Sonfield, Rachel Benson Gold, Jennifer J. Frost and Casey Alrich

Contraceptive Needs and Services, 2001-2004 July 2006

Family Planning Annual Report: 2004 Summary [PDF] July 2005
Jennifer J. Frost

Public Funding for Contraceptive, Sterilization and Abortion Services, FY 1980-2001 January 2005

Slide shows

Adding It Up: The Benefits of Investing In Sexual and Reproductive Health Care June 2004

Fulfilling the Promise: Public Policy and U.S. Family Planning Clinics January 2001

Memos and statements

Critical Role of Medicaid in Financing Family Planning Services-State-Level Data [PDF] March 2005

Statement by Sharon Camp, Ph.D. on "Adding It Up: The Benefits of Investing in Sexual and Reproductive Health Care [PDF] February 2004
Sharon Camp, Ph.D.

Statement of Ms. Thoraya Ahmed Obaid on "Adding It Up: The Benefits of Investing" [PDF] February 2004
Thoraya Ahmed Obaid

CMS study of Medicaid family planning waiver programs [PDF] January 2004

Potential Impact of Increased Family Planning Funding on the Lives of Women & Their Families Overseas  [PDF version] June 2000

Top Resources on Services and Financing

Estimating the Impact of Expanding Medicaid Eligibility for Family Planning Services [PDF]
August 2006

Contraception Counts: Ranking State Efforts State and congressional district fact sheets on meeting women's needs for contraception (February 1996)

Contraceptive Services [PDF version] Fact sheet on public funding and service provision (March 2005)

Public Funding for Contraceptive, Sterilization and Abortion Services, FY 1980-2001 Current public funding data by state (February 2005)

Contraceptive Needs and Services, 2001-2004 State and county data on women's contraceptive needs (October 2004)

Adding It Up: The Benefits of Investing in Sexual and Reproductive Health Care [PDF] Report covering the medical and nonmedical benefits of sexual and reproductive health (January 2004)

Fulfilling the Promise: Public Policy and U.S. Family Planning Clinics [PDF] Report documenting the accomplishments of the U.S. family planning clinic system (March 2000)

 
 

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