Grassroots college networks distribute emergency contraceptives on campus

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Peer-to-peer efforts can meet a clear need among students whose colleges may not make sexual health products accessible or affordable.

Limya Harvey and Cydney Mumford set up a folding table a few times a month on the University of Texas-San Antonio campus to give away kits containing emergency contraceptives, condoms, and lube, or menstrual products like tampons and pads. They typically bring 50 of each type of kit, and after just an hour or two everything is gone.The 19-year-old sophomores — Harvey is enrolled at UTSA and Mumford at Northeast Lakeview College — founded the organization Black Book Sex Ed last spring.

She proposed that the school install a vending machine stocked with emergency contraceptives, condoms, pregnancy tests, and other sexual health products. But college officials told her they didn't have money for the machines. Her research showed that students at other colleges in Maryland faced similar roadblocks.

 

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