Nurx

Nurx is a San Francisco-based healthcare company that has created an online platform where those seeking medical care for areas such as contraceptive or sexual health care can have access to it via telecommunication.

The company offers various services and products for healthcare needs. Most of its services are for monitoring and being proactive about sexual health, such as the delivery of birth control and PrEP, sexually transmitted infection testing, human papilloma virus screening, genital herpes treatment, oral herpes treatment, emergency contraception, and HIV preparation. Users of Nurx can gain access to testing or medication with or without insurance. If the user should need to talk to a doctor, they can do so using the messaging feature on the mobile application.

Nurx's initial offering was birth control. Their process includes a user requesting a prescription, which is doctor reviewed before the medication is delivered and with delivery Nurx offers automatic refills. Users are able to choose from the pill, the patch, the ring and a birth control shot.

For their at-home STI Testing, Nurx offers three different home tests. They offer the Basics Covered Kit which tests for HIV, chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis with urine tests and a blood spot card; the Healthy Woman Kit which tests for HIV, chlamydia, gonorrhea, syphilis and trichomoniasis with a vaginal swab, throat swab and blood spot card; and the Full Control Kit which tests for HIV, chlamydia, gonorrhea, syphilis and Hepatitis C with an urine test, throat swab, rectal swab and blood spot card.

Nurx offers different dosages of the antiviral medication valacyclovir for the treatment of gential and oral herpes. They offer a combined prescription for the treatment of genital and oral herpes. Valacyclovir lessens the frequencies and symptoms of genital and oral herpes, as well as reducing the chance genital and oral herpes is passed along to a partner.

Nurx offers emergency contraception, including same or next day emergency contraception through a pharmacy near the user or a request for emergency contraception to be on hand in the case of emergencies. For emergency contraception, Nurx offers Ella, a prescription-only contraceptive which works for up to 5 days after unprotected sex, and Plan B, which is available without a prescription and works for up to 3 days after unprotected sex.

In 2020, the company utilized its manufacturing capabilities to supply at-home testing kits for COVID-19. The tests that were distributed and sent for analysis were sent to Molecular Testing Labs. The Food and Drug Administration halted the distribution of the tests on March 21 for unknown reasons.