General Support for the Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health Renewal
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Investigator: J. Joseph Speidel, MD, MPH
Sponsor: William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
Location(s): United States
Description
Since 2008, the UCSF Bixby Center has conducted a major project to improve access to long-acting reversible contraception (LARC)—intrauterine devices and the subdermal contraceptive implant—in the United States. These methods are safe for nearly all women to use, but providers do not routinely offer them and women have misinformation about them. Use of IUDs has increased in the last decade, but remains below the rates of other developed countries.