IUDs are small devices implanted in the uterus to prevent pregnancy. Finding a doctor to insert an IUD can be difficult and costly – but this could soon change.
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New modelling shows skipping the need for a doctors’ prescription and going straight to a pharmacist for the pill could save the health system A$96 million a year and improve women’s health outcomes.
Few Australian women use long-acting reversible contraception, despite its advantages over other methods. These contraceptives offer women long-term, cost-effective, “fit-and-forget” contraception.
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Senior Research Fellow, Global and Women's Health, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University
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Finkel Professor of Global Health, Monash University
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Senior Research Fellow, Jean Hailes Research Unit, School of Public Health & Preventive Medicine, Monash University
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Senior Research Fellow, Monash University
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Associate Professor, Macquarie University Centre for the Health Economy, Macquarie University
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Adjunct Research Fellow, Macquarie University
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Director, SPHERE NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in Women's Sexual and Reproductive Health in Primary Care and Professor and Head of the Department of General Practice, Monash University