Male attendance at title X family planning clinics — United States, 2003-2014

What is already known about this topic? Although both men and women have reproductive health care needs, reproductive health services traditionally focus on women. Since 1970, the Title X program has provided family planning and related preventive health services with priority for services for low-income women and men. Most clients are women, but the Title X program also promotes use of clinics by men through delivery of male-focused health services. What is added by this report? Title X service sites have increasingly provided services to male clients. During 2003–2014, 3.8 million males visited Title X service sites in the United States and the percentage of all family planning users who were male nearly doubled from 4.5% (221,425) in 2003 to 8.8% (362,531) in 2014. In 2014, the percentage of family planning users who were male ranged widely by state from ≤1% in Mississippi, Tennessee, and Alabama to 27.2% in the District of Columbia. What are the implications for public health practice? Health care settings might want to adopt the framework employed by Title X clinics to better provide family planning and related preventive health services to men.