Contraceptive security is a situation in which people are able to reliably choose, obtain, and use quality contraceptives for family planning and sexually transmitted disease (including HIV and AIDS) prevention when they want them.
Organizations, usually government health agencies, work to ensure clients have long-term access to a range of high quality contraceptives and other essential health supplies. Measures taken to provide contraceptive security may include improving contraceptive distribution and availability, promoting product quality, and supporting commodities distribution across. Subsidized products, particularly condoms and oral contraceptives, may be provided to increase accessibility for low-income people. One problem encountered with this subsidization is that individuals who are able to pay regular retail price may chose to buy the discounted items, creating competition with private sector contraceptive distributors.
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“The contention that a standing army and navy is the best security of peace is about as logical as the claim that the most peaceful citizen is he who goes about heavily armed. The experience of every-day life fully proves that the armed individual is invariably anxious to try his strength. The same is historically true of governments. Really peaceful countries do not waste life and energy in war preparations, with the result that peace is maintained.”
—Emma Goldman (1869–1940)