UC San Francisco
For A Project To Increase The Use Of Long-acting Reversible Contraceptives
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Amount$271,000
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Program
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Date Awarded11/12/2012
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Term24.0 Months
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Type of SupportProject
Strategies
Overview
One of the most important strategies to reduce unintended pregnancy and the need for abortion is to increase the use of the most effective contraceptives—IUDs and implants. This grant would support a randomized control trial of a new counseling script highlighting the benefits of these long-acting reversible contraceptive methods and reminding clients that even these most expensive methods are free for low-income women. A similar script showed tremendous results in a large study in St. Louis. This project seeks to demonstrate that counseling intervention can also be effective in a more typical family planning clinic setting, San Francisco’s New Generation Health Center.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.ucsf.edu
Address
The Regents of the University of California, San Francisco c/o Office of Sponsored Research
490 Illinois Street, 4th Floor, San Francisco, CA, 94143-0000, United States
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for support of the Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health program
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