Community women and reproductive autonomy: building an infrastructure for long-acting reversible contraception (LARC) services in a mobile health clinic
Nall, Michelle; O'Connor, Sarah; Hopper, Taylor; Peterson, Hanna; Mahajan, Bhuvna
Why this matters
Offering long-acting contraception on a mobile unit requires clinical, logistical, and referral systems as well as the method itself. The article describes how the University of Florida Mobile Outreach Clinic built a long-acting reversible contraception program, offered as a framework for other resource-limited settings.
Abstract
This article describes implementation of a long-acting reversible contraception (LARC) program in a free primary care clinic in central Florida. A background of LARC is presented, along with a description of the infrastructure built by the University of Florida Mobile Outreach Clinic, in an effort to share a framework for the provision of LARC services with other resource-limited settings.