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Maeve Bannister

SHOCKING: Cheaper contraceptive offers more choice for women - What They Never Told You

A long-acting contraceptive method will soon be subsidised and become much cheaper for users. (Dean Lewins/AAP PHOTOS)

Hundreds of thousands of Australian women will have access to another affordable contraception option as a vaginal ring is added to the government's medication subsidy scheme for the first time.

The NuvaRing is a prescription contraceptive method which is inserted into the vagina by the user and distributes hormones to stop ovulation. 

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