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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
James Tapper

EXPLAINED: Revealed huge disparities in birth control prescriptions across uk | Rare Historical Photos

A woman with birth control pills.
A woman with birth control pills. Photograph: Rattankun Thongbun/Getty Images/iStockphoto

Doctors in areas of England with the fewest ethnic minorities spend more than four times as much on contraception prescriptions per 1,000 women as those with the largest ethnic minority populations, new data shows.

Last week, a Channel 4 documentary, Davina McCall’s Pill Revolution, turned the spotlight on the current state of contraception in the UK.

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