Reflecting Back in Gratitude

2020 has been a difficult year. Like so many others, the RHAP community was deeply impacted by COVID-19. In addition to the personal impact of this pandemic, our organization faced a number of new challenges. We moved our office to be 100% remote at the beginning of the pandemic. We had to learn new rhythms,…

Working Toward Equitable Reproductive Health Care Access During and After the COVID-19 Pandemic

Inequities in reproductive health care, including abortion, have long existed in the United States. State legislatures have sought to erode Roe v. Wade by enacting policies that restrict or delay access to and provision of abortion services. This has primarily impacted Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC), adolescents, and families living below the federal…

It Took a Team: Initiating access to SubQ Depo during the pandemic

Dr. Linda Prine and Tiffany Smith, MPH, work at the Institute for Family Health, a Federally Qualified Health Center network with 17 sites across New York City and the Mid-Hudson Valley.  Over the past few years, a team of clinicians and program staff has been working on a family planning grant that functions to expand…

Contraceptive Pearl: IUD and Uterine Abnormalities

Providers may wonder whether or not uterine abnormalities, like fibroids, cervical stenosis, or congenital anomalies would preclude IUD use. For questions like this, the US Medical Eligibility Criteria (US MEC), published by the CDC, is a good resource to turn to. Uterine Fibroids: Category 2-A condition for which the advantages of using the method generally…

Give the Gift of Access

We did it! We met our $10,000 match and raised a total of $33,000 on #GivingTuesday! Thank you! Missed out on Giving Tuesday? You can still donate to our year-end campaign.  From now until December 31st, RHAP is raising funds to mobilize, train, and support clinicians to make reproductive health care accessible to everyone.  Here’s…

December 2020

December 2020    Give the Gift of Access We did it! We met our $10,000 match and raised a total of $33,000 on #GivingTuesday! Thank you! Missed out on Giving Tuesday? You can still donate to our year-end campaign.  From now until December 31st, RHAP is raising funds to mobilize, train, and support clinicians to…

Updating the “Your Birth Control Choices” Factsheet

Many people come to know RHAP through our resources and the “Your Birth Control Choices” fact sheet is one of our most popular resources.  Each year, RHAP picks one content area – abortion, miscarriage, or contraception – and goes through all of our resources to determine what needs updating, what we’re missing, and how we…

Save the Date – #GivingTuesday is on December 1!

Give a gift this #GivingTuesday, December 1, to mobilize, train, and support primary care clinicians to expand access to abortion, contraception, and miscarriage care for everyone. The clinicians we work with are on the frontlines fighting this global pandemic. We are helping them provide safe access to reproductive health care.  As we near the end…

March 2021 RHAP Update

January 2021 RHAP Update