Table 1: Descriptions of Selected Types of Contraceptives. United States Government Accountability Office. For more information, contact John E. Dicken at or dickenj gao. About 19 million students were enrolled in nearly 3, degree-granting colleges across the U.
Many colleges have student health centers that provide health care to the students on their campuses. Among other things, student health centers may offer sexual and reproductive health care, which includes things such as STI testing and prevention; contraception; emergency contraception; pregnancy testing; abortion; and menstrual products.
In June , the U. Supreme Court concluded in Dobbs v. Constitution does not confer the right to abortion. This report describes: 1 the availability of on-campus sexual and reproductive health care at selected colleges; 2 challenges students faced in seeking sexual and reproductive health care at selected colleges and efforts those colleges took to address them; and 3 how the availability of sexual and reproductive health care at selected colleges changed since the start of the academic year.
GAO interviewed officials from a nongeneralizable sample of 15 colleges, selected on the basis of program length, location, religious affiliation, size, and other factors.
Most of the 15 selected colleges GAO interviewed offered a variety of on-campus sexual and reproductive health care for students through their student health center. For example, officials at all of the colleges said they offered menstrual products and pregnancy tests, and 12 of the 15 colleges offered sexually transmitted infection STI tests. Among contraceptives, college officials said male condoms and oral contraceptives were most commonly available at 12 of the 15 colleges , while contraceptive implants and intrauterine devices were less commonly available.
