Sexual healthcare supplier TBD Well being has moved into the B2B market by offering digital well being corporations’ sufferers entry to its at-home sexually transmitted illness checks, diagnostics lab and clinics, the corporate introduced Thursday. TBD Well being is beginning by partnering with LGBTQIA+ healthcare supplier FOLX Well being and sexual well being firm Wisp.
“We wished to convey traditionally ‘competing’ manufacturers collectively to assist clear up the fragmented well being system we’re all united in opposition to,” stated Stephanie Estey, TBD Well being co-founder and co-CEO, in an e mail. “Working collectively finally permits us to maneuver additional in direction of our aligned aim to present unparalleled entry to sexual and reproductive healthcare for extremely stigmatized communities throughout the nation.”
New York Metropolis-based TBD Well being is a web based and in-person sexual healthcare platform. It provides at-home STD testing and emergency contraception, in addition to telemedicine consults. Its in-person clinics are positioned in Las Vegas and Denver. Boston-based FOLX Well being, in the meantime, is a telehealth platform designed for the LGBTQIA+ neighborhood. Its companies embody gender-affirming care, major care, sexual and reproductive well being, household constructing and psychological well being care. Wisp, primarily based in San Francisco, is a digital well being supplier for vaginal well being, reproductive well being and sexual well being.
By way of the partnership, FOLX Well being can provide its members TBD Well being’s at-home STD kits and rely upon its labs, which might present next-day STD outcomes. These companies are particularly useful for these within the LGBTQIA+ neighborhood, who usually battle to entry healthcare, stated Liana Douillet Guzmán, CEO of FOLX Well being.
“Solely 5% of our members might discover an LGBTQIA+ affirming supplier earlier than coming to FOLX,” Douillet Guzmán stated in an e mail. “Lots of our members both dwell in a care desert or can’t be seen by an knowledgeable in sufficient time because of lengthy wait lists. … Providing at-home STI testing is a snug and affirming choice for a lot of of our neighborhood members. By way of our partnership with TBD Well being, we are able to broaden entry to look after our neighborhood members whereas additionally encouraging healthcare that is freed from judgment for everybody.”
For Wisp, the corporate can now refer its telehealth sufferers to TBD Well being’s in-person clinics in Las Vegas and Denver. These sufferers can obtain TBD Well being’s STD testing, PrEP prescriptions, UTI therapies and different companies.
“Particularly in relation to ladies’s sexual well being, there are particular issues like IUD insertion or your annual pap smear that we simply can’t [deliver virtually],” stated Monica Cepak, interim CEO of Wisp, in an interview final week at CES 2024. “These are such necessary contact factors in a girl’s well being journey, and that’s why it’s necessary for us to associate with TBD.”
Estey of TBD Well being stated that its enterprise mannequin with its digital well being companions “varies relying on the combination.” In working with different digital healthcare suppliers, Estey added that she finally goals to “be sure that everybody has the chance to take management of their sexual well being.”
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