In a fashion virtually identical to Pap smears performed on the uterine cervix, anal Pap smears are now being performed on men at risk for HPV- associated disease.
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But in addition to cervical cancer, pap smears screen for chlamydia.
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Since being diagnosed, I've had six pap smears and two colposcopies.
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They recalled their first pap smears and how they went just fine.
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They go in for birth control, they go in for Pap smears.
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But for now, he says anal pap smears are the best option.
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From 21 to 29, women should get pap smears alone every three years.
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Santana now gets two Pap smears (one for each cervix), instead of one.
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What harm comes from supplying people with birth control, condoms, Pap smears, and cancer screenings?
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In 2013, it was found that pap smears might not be necessary every year, either.
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So there are about 70 million pap smears that are done in the U.S. every year.
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For people with HPV, routine Pap smears can identify precancerous cells that can then be removed.
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In the Netherlands, they don't do annual pap smears/well-women exams until the age of 30.
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Javier says his aversion to pap smears contributed to his reasoning when he decided to have a hysterectomy.
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For women ages 21 to 29, the guidelines haven't changed and Pap smears are still the gold standard.
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Until then, IUDs shouldn't act as a replacement for regular screening like Pap smears or getting the vaccine.
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So you know, if we can just keep Karen busy scrapbooking — we can all still get pap smears.
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False positives in routine screening—such as Pap smears, mammograms, and PSA tests—are a well-recognized problem.
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While Pap smears screen for cervical cancer, there is no valid and reliable test to screen for ovarian cancer.
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I guarantee that there are many solvers who think about pap smears at breakfast and are not grossed out.
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Although the disease is preventable and, if detected early, treatable, Dr. Kemeny's patients have often never had Pap smears.
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Before the storm, the facility offered everything from dental work and diabetes care to Pap smears and childbirth services.
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De-funding Planned Parenthood would nix routine breast cancer screenings and pap smears, STI treatment, and sex education for many.
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Women also haven't had to pay extra for other preventive health services, including Pap smears, STI screening, and prenatal care.
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In 2012, the U.S. and Canada changed their guidelines to recommend pap smears every three years instead of every year.
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Abortion-only clinics have become Planned Parenthood's new business model because pap smears and birth control do not drive revenue.
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Is also administers only a tiny percentage of the over 50 million pap smears obtained by American women each year.
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In wealthy countries, cervical cancer is no longer a major killer because Pap smears, biopsies and surgery are readily available.
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Too many VA health-care facilities do not offer essential gender-specific services, like mammograms, pap smears and prenatal care.
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"Ten to twenty percent of patients with benign [anal] pap smears will actually have a precancerous area," says Dr. Goldstone.
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In other words, defunding Planned Parenthood would simply mean taking money away from providing low-cost pap smears, not abortions.
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Title X ensures that low-income people can access health services including Pap smears, breast exams, STD testing, and birth control.
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Her last two routine Pap smears, one in 243 and the next in 22017, had come up free of any issues.
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They used more prescription drugs, they saw the doctor more often, they got more mammograms, more Pap smears, more PSA tests.
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I think about the millions of women who depend on the ACA for basic, preventive services like pap smears and mammograms.
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Although many have relied on pap smears for chlamydia testing, they're actually not necessary for it: Urine tests are just as effective.
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This is an area where strong women have been slow to get pap smears and mammograms or tend to their general health.
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No matter if you believe abortion should be legal or not, do you think that abortions are as vital as pap smears?
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In the first chapter, Ehrenreich, a breast cancer survivor, confides that she has given up on cancer checkups, mammograms and Pap smears.
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Pap smears used to be done annually, but guidelines now recommend them every three to five years for women 21 and older.
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But another less-obvious factor that could be ramping the STI rate up so much is the updated guidelines around Pap smears.
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And this fear can cause queer people to avoid seeking not just pap smears, but also other screenings, STI tests, and rape kits.
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Back in the day the teaching was to make women come in for Pap smears in order to get their birth control pills.
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Gynecological resources are few and far between, she said, and financial pressures force patients to put off checkups, pap smears, and cancer screenings.
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Today, that means women between the age of 21 and 65 should get pap smears every three years and HPV testing every five years.
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Thanks to Title X funding, Planned Parenthood became her go-to place for Pap smears, birth control and STD testing starting in high school.
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Edna also hopes to start a lab to examine biopsies and Pap smears for cervical cancer, and to train staff members to operate it.
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I have vaginismus, and though I've undergone physical therapy for it, pap smears are still unbearably painful — it basically feels like I'm being stabbed.
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"If you're known to be a carrier of high-risk HPV, then you want to get regular pap smears to check for cancer," she says.
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That's why a study published in the Annals of Family Medicine set out to determine whether fewer pap smears also led to fewer chlamydia diagnoses.
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In fact, the bill's co-sponsor, Colleen Burton, offered up a list of alternatives for women seeking birth control, pap smears, and other reproductive services.
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The family planning program, Title X, ensures that low-income people can access health services including Pap smears, breast exams, STD testing, and birth control.
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Annual pap smears can help doctors detect cervical cancer, another cancer linked to the HPV, in women, but anal cancer testing isn&apost as common.
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She was one of 22017 women who died of cancer after receiving false negatives on Pap smears done by CervicalCheck, Ireland's national cervical screening program.
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In the industrialized world, routine Pap smears and other tests have almost entirely eliminated deaths, but in Africa the disease remains among the most deadly.
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A 2016 OPA report estimates that Title X funding allowed clinics to provide 700,000 pap smears, four million STD tests, and a million breast cancer screenings.
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Planned Parenthood says cutting off those funds would make it more difficult for women to obtain birth control, Pap smears or testing for sexually transmitted diseases.
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Closures affect more than abortion care; each of these facilities offers a range of women's health and other medical services, including pap smears and birth control.
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When students are educated about routine pap smears, the importance of screening transgender men is also taught; the same goes for prostate exams and transgender women.
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As a family physician, I also know how important preventive services such as mammograms, colonoscopies and pap smears (the most common screening test for cervical cancer) are.
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It's also the single largest provider of sex education, and provides hundreds of thousands of pap smears and breast exams -- and millions of STD tests -- each year.
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"Anal pap smears are controversial because there are a lot of false positives," says Dr. John Rescigno, a radiation oncologist at Mount Sinai Beth Israel Cancer Center.
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White abortion services aren't available, a public health clinic waives and discounts fees for people who cannot afford birth control, STD testing, Pap smears and more, Flores said.
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It's important to note that even with the shot, adults with cervixes should still schedule regular pap smears and/or HPV tests to screen for cancers and abnormalities.
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Those health care services include pap smears, cervical and breast cancer screenings, STD treatment and testing for both men and women, as well as reproductive and primary care.
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Many doctors aren't aware that some transgender men may still need pap smears, breast exams and mammograms, and that all transgender women should be screened for prostate problems.
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Spotting is one symptom of cervical cancer — but if you've been getting pap smears regularly and you're not seeing any other symptoms, that's probably not be the case.
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Likewise, the single payer system of Canada fails to deliver screening tests for the most common cancers as broadly as the US system, including PAP smears and colonoscopies.
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"Before we learned that Pap smears could safely be discontinued at age 65 for most women, gynecologists regularly saw the changes of vulvovaginal atrophy," Vesco said by email.
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Millions of cisgender girls and young women may have received unnecessary pelvic exams and pap smears, according to estimates in a new study published in JAMA Internal Medicine.
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While pap smears might not be necessary on an annual basis for everyone, be sure to have regular, open conversations with your doctor to determine what's best for you.
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While the organization receives about $500 million each year in federal funding, that money helps pay for health services such as vital cancer screenings and pap smears, not abortions.
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In the 1980s, Scandavian medical studies highlighted the relationship between HPV and uterine cervical carcinoma, leading to yearly pap smears, HPV education for women, and eventually the HPV vaccine.
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This would have serious consequences for low-income patients, many of whom rely on Planned Parenthood for reproductive health care from birth control to Pap smears to STD testing.
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What this is about is birth control, pap smears, STI tests, and sex education, and whether it's in the public interest to make sure everyone has access to those things.
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OTA reports in 1987 and 1990, which concluded that Pap smears and mammograms for older women could save thousands of lives, were instrumental in extending Medicare reimbursement for these tests.
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The A.C.A. also required all insurers to cover preventive health services without co-payments; for women, this includes birth control, Pap smears, mammograms and a host of other crucial services.
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The positive rate on pap smears is literally almost an order of magnitude lower than what you'd see with cancer risk, but now all of a sudden it's the same cost.
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Ryan's policy memo, which he finally dropped last Thursday, doesn't address free access to contraception, gender rating, or whether preventive services, like mammograms or pap smears, will continue to be covered.
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It's important to note that the "cancer screenings" that Khloé refers to in her Instagram caption are Pap smears, which test for abnormal growth on the squamous cells of the cervix.
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But Brightman said that when she read the new STI data from the CDC, the first thing that struck her was that people might be conflating Pap smears with STI testing.
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For instance, "there are guys who prefer to have a hysterectomy because they are very uncomfortable having pelvic exams and pap smears, which are necessary when you have a cervix," Radix said.
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In the three-and-a-half minute video, published Tuesday, the women explain why providing women with lifesaving healthcare — like birth control, pap smears, and breast cancer screenings — is smart and sexy.
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"The only medical care I was receiving was the care I got through Planned Parenthood for my yearly physicals and yearly pap smears to get my birth control," said Miceli, now 275.
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The group says it offers pregnancy testing and counseling, prenatal care, HIV/AIDS testing, ultrasounds, cancer testing, well-woman care, pap smears, STD testing and treatment, adoption referral and post-abortion support.
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Research shows that many trans men avoid getting pap smears because of discomfort associated with their bodies, which could account for the higher instances of cervical cancer identified in trans male populations.
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"They found out I had had annual pap smears and they got a warrant for my medical records," Rawson says in an ABC 20/20 documentary on that airs tonight at 9 p.m.
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For starters, we know that patients who are obese are in general less likely to see their healthcare providers and less likely to get lifesaving screening tests like Pap smears and breast exams.
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But clinics can't use federal funds for such abortions in the first place, so this bill essentially means providers could have less money for things like birth control, Pap smears, and, yes, STD testing.
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Of those interviewed, four had gone to Planned Parenthood for abortion services, but every patient relied on their local Planned Parenthood center for regular reproductive care like pap smears, STI screenings, and birth control.
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NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Disabled women around the world are being denied basic health services from family planning advice to pap smears because they are seen as asexual, disability rights campaigners said on Thursday.
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The decisions may make it more difficult for teenagers wanting to get tested for sexually transmitted diseases, for gay men looking to prevent HIV and even for women seeking breast exams or pap smears.
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The equivalent data to that derived from decades of Pap smears on women in lowering the incidence of cancer is lacking, but there is every reason to believe this will be an effective screening tool.
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Daly says Thrive's multi-cancer blood test is not intended to replace the standard of care, meaning that patients given false reassurance would still be recommended the traditional screening tests, like mammographies or pap smears.
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Even when HPV is cleared by the body without consequence, it can be painful, stressful and expensive to have repeat Pap smears and the tests to ensure the virus is not causing precancer or cancer.
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Read These Stories Next: What To Know About Your Cervical Cancer Risk Erin Andrews Overcame Cervical Cancer In The Most Inspiring Way The Rules Around Pap Smears Are Changing Again — Here's What You Need To Know
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Still, it's important to check in with your doctor and keep up with annual pap smears to ensure you don't have the disease or catch it in its early phases so you can get proper treatment.
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The guidance for US women presently is a patchwork, but it generally coalesces around a few key ideas: Pap smears should start around age 21, and they should be done every three years if results are normal.
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Even health screenings that are considered medically necessary for everyone else, like prostate exams for transgender women and pap smears for transgender men, are more difficult to access once a person has legally changed their gender identity.
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Under the new regime, Title X funding—which helps 4m women access Pap smears, breast-cancer screenings and STI tests, among other services—may go only to organisations that neither provide nor refer patients to abortion care.
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If you rely on a Planned Parenthood clinic for non-abortion services, such as birth control, pregnancy and STD tests, and cancer screenings like breast exams and Pap smears, the Better Care Reconciliation Act affects you as well.
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For many people, this isn&apost realistic, so getting regular HPV tests and pap smears to keep your health in check is important, according to Planned Parenthood, because high-risk types of HPV can sometimes develop into cancer.
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Cervical cancer is no longer a leading cause of death as much as it used to be in the United States, thanks in large part to the widespread use of pap smears, but it's still a widespread threat.
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Planned Parenthood, which sued the state to stop the law from coming into effect, said it would have stripped federal funds from all their health services, such as pap smears and cancer screenings, because a few clinics provided abortions.
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In the Indian trials, however, the controls—a total of 141,000 women—were not offered the pap smears that were supposed (though they were in practice often unavailable) to be the standard for screening in India at the time.
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Today, she "highly recommends" the digital rectal exam that first picked up on her cancer, and also encourages regular pap smears for cervical cancer, the most common HPV-related cancer in women (for men, throat cancers are most common).
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These clinics are already overburdened with all the various people they are designed to serve, and it's unlikely that they will be able handle an influx of patients who need pap smears, STI tests, birth control, and prenatal care.
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In rejecting this money, the lawmakers eliminated a program called the Iowa Family Planning Network, which allowed people to enroll in Medicaid for family planning services, including pap smears, birth control counseling, pregnancy tests, pelvic exams, and STD treatment.
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Failure to collect health data, for example, means that some clinics are getting dinged for not giving enough women pap smears, when in reality they are just treating a lot of transgender women for whom that is not a needed procedure.
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Just last week, she spoke out again at The Atlantic&aposs People v Cancer conference in New York, saying she "highly recommends" the digital rectal exam that first picked up on her cancer, in addition to regular pap smears for women.
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Although the OTA never made policy recommendations, its reports played an important role in influencing policy, from limiting employer rights to give workers polygraph tests, to encouraging lawmakers to extend Medicare coverage to older women for mammograms and pap smears.
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So now it's going to be impossible to get an abortion in Ohio—this is the beginning of the end... These clinics not only supply abortions for women, but also pap smears and mammograms and overall women's health check ups.
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Despite anti-abortion lawmakers who argue that women can go to a number of other clinics for family planning, STD screenings, breast exams, and pap smears, Planned Parenthood plays an outsized role in providing reproductive health services to Medicaid enrollees.
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The company says the test will be a game-changer for women who are not regularly able to get Pap smears or who have not had access to the HPV vaccine, like women who live in rural areas and those without health insurance.
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During an appearance on CNN Tuesday, House Oversight Committee Chair Jason Chaffetz suggested low-income Americans can't afford health care because they're purchasing iPhones — if only they would settle for a good old secondhand Motorola Razr flip phone, they could afford Pap smears.
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" And finally, there's worry that the convenience of pharmacy access might dissuade some women from going to their physician for pap smears and STD screenings, an argument Roth likens to holding a woman's birth control "hostage to her getting the other services.
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Like other Title X projects, Obria plans to offer a range of health services, including pregnancy tests, "limited ultrasounds," prenatal care, parenting education, STD and HIV testing and treatment, pap smears, breast and cervical cancer screenings, basic infertility services and abstinence education.
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Borins is a songwriter and performing musician who writes comedic tunes about pap smears and colonoscopies and he believes that music – any and all music – is a legitimate medicine of sorts that can help with depression and anxiety, along with laughter and other forces of joy.
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When abortion access is narrowed, when legislation shutters health care clinics that previously provided basics like birth control and pap smears, we know who loses: women in rural communities with few doctors; women earning low-incomes or living at the poverty line; women of color; immigrant women; teens; and LGBTQ people.
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And sure, we've all had snickered at men who don't know the clitoris from the cervix or squirm whenever periods or Pap smears are mentioned—but isn't it pretty alarming if the person who sees your vagina more than anyone else doesn't know enough to tell you if something's changed?
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"We were holding pregnancy prevention hostage to cancer screening," obstetrician Nancy Stanwood, chairwoman of the board of Physicians for Reproductive Health, told the Times, adding that a study of women in Texas who got their contraception over the counter in Mexico were still visiting their Ob/Gyn for Pap smears.
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The Texas legislature's argument for doing this is the same one Congressional Republicans and President Trump lean on: State dollars should not go to abortion providers, period, and Planned Parenthood patients can easily get other needed reproductive health services, such as contraception, pap smears, and STI tests, at other state-funded community health clinics.
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And even though Planned Parenthood insists that the Title X funding it receives is used for the many non-abortion services it provides -- including access to birth control, Pap smears, pregnancy and STD testing -- conservatives have long argued that Planned Parenthood and reproductive health care centers like it should be cut off from the family planning federal funding altogether.
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And even though Planned Parenthood insists that the Title X funding it receives is used for the many non-abortion services it provides -- including access to birth control, Pap smears, pregnancy and STD testing -- conservatives have long argued that the organization and reproductive health care centers like it should be cut off from family planning federal funding altogether.
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And even though Planned Parenthood insists that the Title X funding it receives is used for the many non-abortion services it provides -- including access to birth control, Pap smears and pregnancy and STD testing -- conservatives have long argued that Planned Parenthood and reproductive health care centers like it should be cut off from family planning federal funding altogether.
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The vast majority of people go to Planned Parenthood, which operates more than 650 community health clinics across the country, to access preventive care, including pap smears, STI tests, and birth control, according to the organization's annual report — and no federal or state funds go to abortions, unless the woman's life is in danger or she was the victim of rape or incest.
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MYTH: Everyone has to have a Pap test each year Read More: A simple guide to the Pap smear — what it feels like and exactly when you need to get itMYTH: Pap smears also test for sexually transmitted infections (STIs) the Read More: 8 infections you can get from oral sexMYTH: You have to cancel your gynecologist appointment if you are on your period— — MYTH: Cervical-cancer screenings are only for those who are currently sexually active
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