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2 months ago | 
medicinetoday.com.au | Danielle Mazza
Ahead of the government’s response last week to a Senate inquiry into access to reproductive health care in Australia, the government announced new measures to make it easier to get an intrauterine device, or IUD. Payments to doctors and nurse practitioners to insert and remove these devices will increase. The government will also set up eight centres to train health-care professionals in IUD insertion, and ensure they are skilled and confident.
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2 months ago | 
canberratimes.com.au | Danielle Mazza
In early February, the federal government announced more than half a billion dollars in funding for women's health, including over $400 million in providing better and cheaper access to contraception and menopausal hormone therapy.
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2 months ago | 
lens.monash.edu | Danielle Mazza
Ahead of the federal government’s response this week to a Senate inquiry into access to reproductive healthcare in Australia, the government has announced new measures to make it easier to get an intrauterine device, or IUD. Payments to doctors and nurse practitioners to insert and remove these devices will increase. The government will also set up eight centres to train healthcare professionals in IUD insertion, and ensure they’re skilled and confident.
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2 months ago | 
theconversation.com | Danielle Mazza
Ahead of the government’s response this week to a Senate inquiry into access to reproductive health care in Australia, the government has announced new measures to make it easier to get an intrauterine device, or IUD. Payments to doctors and nurse practitioners to insert and remove these devices will increase. The government will also set up eight centres to train health-care professionals in IUD insertion, and ensure they are skilled and confident.
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Oct 6, 2024 | 
mja.com.au | Sharon James |Danielle Mazza |Jessica R. Botfield
Med J Aust 2024; 221 (7): 381-385.
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Aug 15, 2024 | 
medicalxpress.com | Danielle Mazza
Donald Trump suggested he was open to revoking access to the abortion pill if he won the presidential race, after being asked by a reporter last Thursday if he would "revoke access" to the drug. The following day, Trump's campaign office said he didn't hear the question properly.
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Aug 14, 2024 | 
theconversation.com | Danielle Mazza
Donald Trump suggested he was open to revoking access to the abortion pill if he won the presidential race, after being asked by a reporter last Thursday if he would “revoke access” to the drug. The following day, Trump’s campaign office said he didn’t hear the question properly. Trump’s running mate, JD Vance, has since said abortion policy should be made by the states and the pair want to “make sure that any medicine is safe, that it is prescribed in the right way”.
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Oct 19, 2023 | 
bmjopen.bmj.com | Jessica R. Botfield |Danielle Mazza |Susan Saldanha |Desireé LaGrappe
Risk FactorsPUBLIC HEALTHReproductive medicineA scoping review methodology will allow us to cover the broad topic area of risk factors and health consequences associated with reproductive coercion (RC), to enable us to identify important areas for future research. The proposed review will not be limited by age or gender, allowing for a broader exploration of risk factors associated with RC.
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Sep 1, 2023 | 
bmjopen.bmj.com | Danielle Mazza |Deborah Bateson |Anisa Rojanapenkul Assifi |Safeera Yasmeen Hussainy
Introduction Preventing unintended pregnancy is an important public health imperative and a key focus of Australia’s National Women’s Health Strategy 2020–2030.1 In Australia, 40% of women experience an unintended pregnancy during their lifetime, and one in three of these results in abortion.2 3 The cost of an unintended pregnancy in Australia was estimated to be $A7.2 billion in 2020, with 56% of total costs borne either directly or indirectly on the woman experiencing the unintended...
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Jul 11, 2023 | 
canberratimes.com.au | Danielle Mazza
A key step in ensuring increased abortion access, it brings us into line with other countries such as Canada where both doctors and nurses have been able to prescribe the abortion pill like any other prescription medicine since 2017 without safety being compromised. It will also make abortion more readily available in places where there is no GP. In 2019 one third of Australian women lived in areas where not even one GP provided a medical abortion.
