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The Title X family planning program is a critical part of America’s public health safety net, serving as a point-of-entry into care for nearly 195 million over the program’s more than 50-year history.
Title X services are guided by the requirements of the Title X statute, regulations, and legislative mandates. Title X projects must ensure that services are provided in a manner that is client-centered, culturally and linguistically appropriate and trauma-informed; protects the dignity of the individual; and ensures quality service delivery consistent with nationally recognized standards of care.
Title X recipients provide a broad range of medically approved family planning services, which includes all Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved contraceptive products and natural family planning methods for clients such as:
- Pregnancy prevention (e.g., birth control) and birth spacing counseling,
- Pregnancy testing and counseling,
- Assistance to achieve pregnancy,
- Basic infertility services,
- Sexually transmitted infection (STI) services, and
- Other preconception health services.
Title X services are voluntary, confidential, and provided regardless of one’s ability to pay. For many clients, Title X clinics are their only ongoing source of health care and health education.
Title X projects may also provide other reproductive health and related preventive health services that are considered beneficial to reproductive health such as HPV vaccination, provision of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), breast and cervical cancer screening, and screening for obesity, smoking, drug and alcohol use, mental health, and intimate partner violence.
The Title X program has been around for more than 50 years. Watch this overview video to learn more about the Title X program’s history and impact.
The Title X program provides a broad range of family planning and preventive health services to millions of people across the country.
