Family Planning

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Well Women

The Webster County Health Unit offers Family Planning Services to Webster County residents. These are discounted costs for services based on a sliding fee schedule, according to income and family size. The fee must be paid at the time of visit.

Services provided by a female nurse practitioner include:

  • Pre-pregnancy counseling

  • Pap smears and breast exams

  • Pregnancy testing

  • Birth control methods (pills, foam, condoms, diaphragms, Depo Provera shot, contraceptive patch)

  • Free confidential HIV testing and counseling

  • Free confidential sexually transmitted infection screening and treatment

For more information, call (417) 859-2532. 

Pregnancy Testing

Urine pregnancy tests are offered for a small fee to Webster County residents in our Marshfield facility at 233 E. Washington. 

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Sexually transmitted diseases (STD) are infections that can be transferred from one person to another through sexual contact. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), there are more than 15 million STD cases reported in the United States each year.

Teenagers and young adults age 15-24 are at greatest risk for acquiring an STD. Each year 3 million become infected.

Most STDs are treatable, but herpes, AIDS and genital warts have no cure. Some of these infections can be deadly. Syphilis, AIDS, genital warts, herpes, hepatitis, and even gonorrhea have all been known to cause death. Therefore, education about these diseases and prevention is important.

The Webster County Health Unit offers free, confidential STD screening, HIV testing, counseling, treatment and education. Call (417) 859-2532 for an appointment.

Learn more about sexually transmitted diseases.