Twice a month, a 40-foot-long truck transformed into a mobile clinic travels the Rio Grande Valley to provide rural Texans with women’s healthcare, including birth control.
The clinic, called the UniMóvil, is part of the Healthy Mujeres program at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley School of Medicine.mobile health programs. But Saul Rivas, an OB-GYN, said he wasn’t aware of any that shared the specific mission of Healthy Mujeres when he helped launch the initiative in 2017. “Mujeres” means “women” in Spanish.
The school is launching a mobile women’s health and contraception program in rural parts of the state this month. She said organizations that can’t afford mobile programs can consider setting up “pop-up clinics” at existing health and community sites in rural areas. Briones decided to keep the device after learning it’s safe and normal not to have periods while using an IUD. She won’t get billed for her appointment with the mobile clinic, even though the university health system doesn’t take her insurance.IUDs and hormonal implants are highly effective and can last up to 10 years.
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