Male Attendance at Title X Family Planning Clinics — United States, 2003–2014

Abstract

© 2016, Department of Health and Human Services. All rights reserved. What is already known about this topic? Although both men and women have reproductive health care needs, reproductive health services traditionally focus on women. Since 1970, the Title X program has provided family planning and related preventive health services with priority for services for low-income women and men. Most clients are women, but the Title X program also promotes use of clinics by men through delivery of male-focused health services. What is added by this report? Title X service sites have increasingly provided services to male clients. During 2003–2014, 3.8 million males visited Title X service sites in the United States and the percentage of all family planning users who were male nearly doubled from 4.5% (221,425) in 2003 to 8.8% (362,531) in 2014. In 2014, the percentage of family planning users who were male ranged widely by state from ≤1% in Mississippi, Tennessee, and Alabama to 27.2% in the District of Columbia. What are the implications for public health practice? Health care settings might want to adopt the framework employed by Title X clinics to better provide family planning and related preventive health services to men.