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Which are already available for free in many places, and also aren't really adequate for long-term birth control (85% effectiveness with normal use), nor cost-effective (presuming a reasonable level of sexual activity). It'd be great to see more viable long-term options that are administered to men (the only male-centric alternative to condoms is a vasectomy, and that's not a temporary solution), in which case any subsidy programs should obviously apply to them as well, but for now, female-centric options are naturally going to be the primary targets for subsidies.

And, in the event that something like Vasalgel makes it to market and becomes a target for birth control subsidy programs, looking at that as "men getting something that women don't" will similarly be missing the fundamental point of birth control. Subsidized birth control really should not be viewed as a gendered issue, no matter who's receiving the treatments in question