The U.S. Supreme Court docket’s anticipated determination to overturn Roe v. Wade this summer season will affect a broad swath of Mississippians, notably school college students, who’ve a excessive want for reproductive well being care.
Girls of their 20s make up nearly all of Mississippians who search abortions within the state, based on knowledge from the Mississippi Division of Well being and the Guttmacher Institute. Whereas it’s unclear the speed at which Mississippi school college students particularly search out abortions, research have discovered that the highest causes college students cease going to high school are being pregnant, the necessity to take care of household, and inadequate entry to youngster care.
That’s why advocates and public well being specialists say that faculties and universities ought to present college students with holistic and inclusive reproductive well being care — and, if Roe is outlawed, that entry goes to develop into all of the extra vital.
Mississippi Right now surveyed the reproductive well being care companies and sexual training sources provided on the state’s eight public universities by calling the scholar well being facilities and requesting data from media relations. Normally, Mississippi’s three largest universities — College of Mississippi, Mississippi State College, and College of Southern Mississippi — provide extra on-campus reproductive well being companies than the smaller colleges, which usually refer college students to close by clinics for exams.
All eight universities provide free condoms however just one faculty, Jackson State College, supplies college students with common entry to free Plan B emergency contraception through appointments.
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Alcorn State College’s Rowan Corridor Well being Companies Middle
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Lorman campus: 601-877-6460
- The middle doesn’t have an on-campus OB-GYN, however does present testing and remedy for sexually transmitted illnesses.
- Condoms, provided totally free, are the one kind of contraception out there on the middle.
- As soon as a pupil has acquired an preliminary dose of Depo-Provera, a type of contraception administered as a shot, the middle can administer the second dose if the scholar brings it to the middle.
- The middle doesn’t provide emergency contraceptives like Plan B however will advise college students to hunt over-the-counter choices out there at Walmart in Vicksburg.
- Free being pregnant exams can be found to college students.
- The Little one Growth and Studying Middle is on the market to Alcorn State staff. Charges are assessed on an income-based scale. Alcorn State College didn’t reply Mississippi Right now’s questions if it supplies on-campus youngster care to college students.
Delta State College’s O.W. Reily Pupil Well being Companies
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662-846-4630
- The nurse practitioner provides fundamental companies like scripts for cough remedy however doesn’t present lab testing or blood work.
- The middle will advocate college students looking for pap smears go to the native well being division.
- The middle doesn’t provide emergency contraceptives like Plan B.
- Condoms and diaphragms are provided totally free within the middle’s useful resource room.
- The middle has partnered with a cellular clinic to supply sexually transmitted illness (STD) testing.
- Delta State has hosted sexual wellness seminars.
- The Hamilton-White Little one Growth Middle is on the market to college students with youngsters as much as 5 years outdated. Tuition prices $5,928 and might be paid in 10- and 12-month installments.
Jackson State College’s Pupil Well being Middle
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601-979-2260
- The middle provides quite a lot of contraception choices, together with capsules and the Depo-Provera shot, totally free to college students.
- College students can get free Plan B from the middle by making an appointment with a nurse practitioner.
- Affords free STD testing and remedy, together with HIV testing.
- Being pregnant exams can be found to college students with out an appointment.
- Supplies referrals for college kids looking for prenatal care to native OB-GYN clinics if they don’t have entry to their very own personal physicians.
- The Lottie W. Thornton Early Little one Care Middle is on the market to college students, college and neighborhood members with youngsters ages 3 to five years outdated. Tuition prices $375 a month.
Mississippi State College’s Longest Pupil Well being Middle
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662-325-6780
- The middle provides free sexual well being exams for college kids.
- Free condoms can be found within the dorms, and totally different types of free contraception are provided on the middle.
- Free being pregnant exams can be found on the well being middle.
- The pharmacy provides over-the-counter Plan B for about $30.
- The Well being Promotion and Wellness Division provides free STD testing, together with free HIV testing.
- Tuition for the Little one Growth and Household Research Middle, which MSU calls “an experiential youngster research laboratory,” prices $585 monthly and is on the market to infants and youngsters as much as 5 years outdated.
Mississippi College for Girls’s Campus Well being Middle
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662- 329-7289
- The nurse practitioners don’t present gynecological or urological exams, however they’ll write prescriptions for contraception.
- The nurse practitioners can prescribe Plan B, however not often do, based on the well being middle.
- Free condoms can be found on the middle.
- The middle doesn’t present companies to pregnant individuals or youngsters beneath three.
- The middle provides being pregnant exams for $10.
- The Little one and Mum or dad Growth Middle is on the market to youngsters older than one till they begin kindergarten. The middle prices about $6,240 for the varsity yr, however MUW college students qualify for a ten% low cost.
The Delta Well being Middle at Mississippi Valley State College
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662-644-4865
- The nurse practitioner can do pap smears however will refer college students looking for extra in-depth care to an OB-GYN in Mound Bayou.
- The middle can write a prescription for contraception, which college students might want to choose up at Walmart or a close-by pharmacy.
- If a pupil brings Depo-Provera, the middle can administer it.
- The middle doesn’t provide Plan B however the emergency contraceptive is sometimes out there totally free at on-campus well being gala’s.
- Condoms are provided totally free.
- Free being pregnant exams are supplied.
- The Little one Growth Middle, operated by Delta Well being Alliance, is on the market to college students, college and neighborhood members with youngsters between 2 and 5 years outdated. The middle is free primarily based on revenue.
College of Mississippi’s College Well being Companies
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662-915-7274 (college students)
662-915-6550 (staff)
- College students can entry annual exams, together with pap smears and breast exams, however well being companies can not implant IUDs.
- The middle can write prescriptions for contraception, however it isn’t supplied totally free.
- The middle provides urine being pregnant exams for $38 and blood being pregnant exams for $40.
- The pharmacy sells Plan B for about $30.
- The Willie Value Lab Faculty is on the market for kids between 3 and 5 years outdated from “university-affiliated households.”
College of Southern Mississippi’s Moffitt Well being Middle
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601-266-5390
- The Workplace of Well being Promotion provides a free intercourse training coaching for instructors who request it.
- The well being middle provides free, walk-in HIV testing. Different types of STD testing aren’t provided totally free however at a lowered charge that may be billed to insurance coverage.
- Free condoms can be found within the pharmacy foyer and in affected person rooms on the well being middle
- The Middle for Little one Growth is obtainable for kids 8 weeks to five years outdated. College students with youngsters can request monetary help from the college via a U.S. Division of Training award known as the “Little one Care Entry Means Dad and mom In Faculty” grant.
