Jessie Hitchens
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first heard Oct 2025
last heard 19 Oct
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Title X is a long-standing program.
It was signed into law by President Nixon and
It helps pay for birth control, cancer screenings, and testing for sexually transmitted infections, and nearly 4,000 clinics all over the country.
Jessie Hitchens runs a clinic in Nebraska that receives Title X funds.
She's really concerned by the fact that the whole Title X federal staff was just fired.
Not knowing where we stand right now is really hard to plan for the future.
She says Title X has gotten results, like bringing down high rates of syphilis and gonorrhea in Nebraska.
If the whole Title X program goes away, she says, we are likely to see those diseases spike in our rural communities.
Selena Simmons-Duffin, NPR News.
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