1. Grant Programs
  2. Title X Service Grants
  3. Louisiana Department of Health

Louisiana Department of Health

Louisiana

Grantee Details

Fiscal Year: 2024
Annual Funding: $4,788,720
Website: https://ldh.la.gov/page/ReproductiveHealthProgram

Program Summary

The Louisiana Department of Health is a state agency that has been a Title X grantee since the 1970s. Its Reproductive Health Program (RHP) serves approximately 30,000 clients per year through a network of Parish Health Unit (PHU) direct service sites and community health centers operated by subrecipient agencies. As a Title X recipient, RHP provides a broad range of family planning services, including pregnancy prevention and birth spacing, pregnancy testing and counseling, assistance to achieve pregnancy, basic infertility services, sexually transmitted infection (STI) services, and other preconception health services. The services are voluntary, confidential, and provided regardless of ability to pay.

Learn more about Louisiana Department of Health. For information on services at individual service sites, visit ReproductiveHealthServices.gov.

Services

* Available through referral only.

  • Counseling on achieving pregnancy
  • Preconception health services
  • Pregnancy testing and counseling
  • Basic infertility services
  • DA approved long-acting contraceptives 
  • FDA approved short-acting contraceptives
  • Natural family planning methods 
  • STI and HIV education and counseling
  • STI and HIV screening and testing 
  • STI and HIV treatment 
  • STI self-testing*
  • Expedited partner therapy 
  • PrEP counseling and risk assessment
  • PrEP prescription services 
  • PEP counseling 
  • PEP prescription services 
  • Screening for breast cancer 
  • Screening for cervical cancer 
  • HPV vaccinations 
  • Screening for intimate partner violence 
  • Screening for mental health
  • Screening for obesity 
  • Screening for smoking, drug, and alcohol use
  • Adolescent-friendly health services