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University Health Services (UHS) has received an $80,000 grant from the Massachusetts Department of Public Health’s Grant Partnership Opportunity for Colleges and Universities Abortion Project.

UHS was awarded the grant to increase sexual and reproductive health and abortion access on campus, increase student engagement on reproductive health issues in partnership with UHS, and to continue to provide these services in a safe and patient-centered manner.

“The UHS leadership is thrilled to be able to continue to provide, as well as expand, our comprehensive reproductive health services to the UMass Amherst and Five College communities,” says Dr. Leora Cohen-McKeon, associate director of General Medicine and Sexual and Reproductive Health Clinics at UHS.

UHS provides sexual and reproductive healthcare services to UMass students, staff, faculty, their family members and Five College students. Services available at UHS’s Sexual and Reproductive Health Clinic include routine vaginal exams; Pap tests; birth control education, counseling and management, including IUD and Nexplanon insertion; pregnancy testing, options counseling, and medication abortion; STI testing and treatment; PrEP and PEP, and more. 

Services are billed to insurance and staff are experienced in maintaining patient confidentiality, including for patients on a family member’s health insurance.

More information on the Massachusetts public health program can be found Mass.gov.