Sometimes the gap isn’t a category. It’s a Tuesday morning when awoman needs $300 to make it to her appointment. Or $80 for emergency contraception that the pharmacy won’t dispense without a script. Or $120 for the bus fare to the hospital.
Help a Sister is direct financial aid for the moments that can’t wait.
Clinician-referred, board-approved, paid within hours. No paperwork on
the woman’s end. No questions she has to answer twice.
$200
$480
That’s a 2.4x cost increase for women whose only difference is a piece of plastic in their wallet. NOWSIS closes that gap.
$200
$480
That’s a 2.4x cost increase for women whose only difference is a piece of plastic in their wallet. NOWSIS closes that gap.
The contraceptive implant most commonly prescribed in Australia costs $200 with Medicare. Without it, it’s $480 or more, before procedure fees and follow-up costs. The hormonal IUD is closer to $560.
For women without a Medicare card — international students, women on temporary visas, women between visa renewals — that gap is unbridgeable . Add financial coercion, language barriers, fear of being on a system, or the simple reality of an under-the-table wage, and the gap becomes an iron wall.
The result is predictable. Australian women who already know what they want for their own bodies can’t access it, not because the system can’t deliver it, but because the system was never designed for them.
PAS funds the full cost of long-acting contraception at our partner clinic. From the device itself through to follow-up care.
The Implanon NXT subdermal implant. Insertion, follow-up, and removal at end of cycle.
$150
Mirena and Kyleena devices, plus the procedure to insert them and the related ultrasound.
$320
Non-hormonal copper devices for women who can’t or prefer not to use hormonal options.
$650
Give what you can toward the next eligible woman. We pool custom contributions and apply them to whichever LARC is funded next.
You decide
If you’re going to ask people to fund what the system won’t, you have to show your work. Here’s exactly how NOWSIS operates.
A clinician refers the woman, or she walks into Clinic 66 directly. Either path is fine.
A short clinical consultation and a confidential financial check. The woman doesn’t fill in paperwork.
Board treasurer approves and disburses funding directly to the clinic. No money passes through the woman’s hands.
The LARC is inserted by the clinic. Follow-up appointments are scheduled. The cycle is complete.
This isn’t a budget projection. It’s an audit. Every dollar in, every dollar out, broken down to the cent.
The contraceptive device itself and the clinical procedure to insert or replace it at Clinic 66.
Up to six months of follow-up consultations, side-effect management, and complication response.
Unavoidable Stripe or PayPal Giving Fund transaction processing fees. NOWSIS takes nothing.
Our Scan a Sister project is built in partnership with the University of Melbourne, expanding HPV self-testing access for the women current screening misses: rural, regional, multicultural, and under-resourced.
Our Scan a Sister project is built in partnership with the University of Melbourne, expanding HPV self-testing access for the women current screening misses: rural, regional, multicultural, and under-resourced.
Our Scan a Sister project is built in partnership with the University of Melbourne, expanding HPV self-testing access for the women current screening misses: rural, regional, multicultural, and under-resourced.
Our Scan a Sister project is built in partnership with the University of Melbourne, expanding HPV self-testing access for the women current screening misses: rural, regional, multicultural, and under-resourced.
Our Scan a Sister project is built in partnership with the University of Melbourne, expanding HPV self-testing access for the women current screening misses: rural, regional, multicultural, and under-resourced.
Our Scan a Sister project is built in partnership with the University of Melbourne, expanding HPV self-testing access for the women current screening misses: rural, regional, multicultural, and under-resourced.
