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South Carolina's Family Planning provides high quality and confidential reproductive services to women, men and teens. You can receive quality health care at affordable rates. Services are based on a sliding fee scale, which means you pay according to your income. Family Planning services are available in all 46 counties. To find a clinic near you, please visit Public Health Clinics or call 855-472-3432.
These are some of the many services provided:
- Birth control available on Site (providing up to one year of birth control supplies)
- Low or no-cost services for women, men and teens
- Educational and counseling services
- Pap smear exams
- Laboratory and pregnancy testing
- HIV risk assessment (education, counseling and testing)
Clients, who are at-risk of an unintended pregnancy, are offered a broad range of effective medically approved birth control methods, including:
- Instruction in abstinence
- Hormonal and non-hormonal contraceptives
- Intrauterine devices (IUD) and Implant (Nexplanon)
- Barrier contraceptives (condoms)
- Instruction in natural family planning methods
- Permanent methods of contraception for women and men available to clients 21 or over (following stringent federal regulations)
All services are:
- Provided as required by Federal Regulations
- Provided solely on a voluntary basis
- Confidential
- Offered in compliance with State and Federal Laws and Regulations pertaining to discrimination