The report, issued by the Institute of Medicine , could be decisive in the federal government's decision to require health plans to eliminate co-payments, fees payment without insurance, and deductibles of contraceptive methods as part of the services described in the basic preventive health care reform. These basic services, coverage may include tests for sexually transmitted diseases, AIDS virus, as well as counseling and nursing team.
For its part, the Department of Health and Human Services U.S. (HHS for its acronym in English) has asked the Institute of Medicine to consider whether contraception should be classified as a preventive service under the Amendment's Health Women's Health System Reform. For these options are available under the new law, the entity must clarify that preventive services do include contraception.
Adopted the recommendations, the law would eliminate costly copayments and open the doors for many Latino females finally have access to contraceptive methods of their choice at no additional cost or a reduced price. Currently, access to it may be out of it both affordable and of other disadvantaged communities in the country.
Research Institute for Reproductive Health Latinas show that Hispanic women want to have the wide range of options for birth control, including the pill, condoms and intrauterine devices (IUDs) among others. However, many of them delay or evade preventive care because of cost.
According to the Guttmacher Institute , on average, women spend about five years trying to become pregnant, and 30 years trying to prevent pregnancy. In addition, 50% of women aged between 18 and 34 years, including Latinas, said there had been some time in their lives when the cost of prescription contraceptives, has interfered with your ability to use them consistently. Also, the Kaiser Foundation found that more than 17 million women need publicly funded contraceptive in 2006 because they could not buy for themselves.
Contraception is a critical component of both public health initiatives such as the health of women, and millions of Latina women today than ever before birth control, by definition, is prevention.
