The health fee is instrumental in providing accessible health services by keeping the facility open, maintaining staffing in several clinical areas and supporting public health and health promotion programs. Students have a choice to seek services as they deem necessary. Student Health provides medical services in a professional, comprehensive, legal and caring manner. Students are advised of diagnostic and treatment options for all medical conditions. In consultation with a health care professional students have the choice to decide what is in their own best interest.
Women do seek care following sexual assault or an episode of unprotected intercourse.
They are offered the choice of taking emergency contraception if they meet medical criteria and engage in an informed consent process. It would be considered patently unethical to not provide this as an option to women. The health fee does not subsidize the cost of the prescriptions for emergency contraception. The price for the prescription is the same for anyone purchasing the medication from any of the three branches of the U.Va. Health Sciences Center outpatient pharmacy.