'Discriminatory': Thousands of women on the Pill out-of-pocket
Leading endocrinologist says many younger women are being forced to spend hundreds of dollars every year on their combined oral contraceptives
17th July 2019
About one-third of Australian women taking the oral contraceptive pill are being discriminated against because their prescribed pill is not on the PBS, a leading endocrinologist says.
Professor Susan Davis, director of the women's health research program at Monash University, says the lack of subsidised third- or fourth-generation combined oral contraceptive (COC) pills on the PBS is “discriminatory”.
She says a high proportion of mainly younger women with premenstrual symptoms, hirsutism, premenstrual dysphoric disorder, PCOS and acne are being unfairly disadvantaged as their only