Mississippians can receive free reproductive healthcare, sexual healthcare and hygiene items, including tampons, pads, condoms, baby formula, over-the-counter birth control, reproductive health kits and emergency contraceptives at the GetPersonal Clinic at the Jackson Medical Mall Suite 459 in Jackson, Mississippi, on Friday, May 15, from noon to 6 p.m. while supplies last.
The clinic will also provide information and guidance on how to establish long-term care with one of its trusted healthcare providers. The GetPersonal by Converge Clinic, which offers low- and no-cost reproductive health and sexual health services to community members, opened up its permanent location at the medical mall this past February and has already seen a 40% increase in patients from March to April, Converge’s Communications and Marketing Vice President Audrey Sandusky told the Mississippi Free Press.
“Care feels so precarious right now. You know, I think families are feeling really stretched and forced into impossible choices between paying their monthly bills and meeting their basic health care needs. And so, obviously, we at Converge want to change that experience in any way possible for as many people as we can,” she told the Mississippi Free Press on Tuesday.
The GetPersonal Clinic offers appointments Monday through Friday for telehealth patients, in-person appointments or walk-ins to receive wellness visits, vital signs checks, sexually transmitted disease testing and counseling, contraceptive care, infertility counseling and education, pregnancy testing and preconception counseling.
The clinic does not offer abortion services because abortion is essentially illegal in Mississippi since the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization in 2022 which allowed states to construct their own abortion laws. Mississippi’s law only allows abortion in the case of rape or if there is a threat to the mother’s health.
GetPersonal held its first free resource event last July before it opened its permanent clinic in Jackson in February. Sandusky said the pop-up event was such a success that the GetPersonal team was inspired to host more events after it moved into its brick and mortar location.
“We hope that they continue to trust us as their reproductive healthcare provider,” she said. “It’s been a wonderful labor of love for the organization and hopefully for many generations to come.”
Sandusky added that the clinic in Jackson and free resource days became especially necessary after the federal government shutdown last October caused the Mississippi Department of Human Services to halt Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits to recipients in November before eventually issuing out partial payments, followed by full payments, after Congress ended the shutdown.
The Jackson Medical Mall has many empty clinic spaces due to the University of Mississippi Medical Center’s decision to move a vast majority of its services, including its obstetrics and gynecology clinics, from the mall to North State Street in Jackson. The Jackson Hinds Comprehensive Health Center—which used to have oncology, surgery and specialty clinics at the medical mall—also moved out in May 2025. Sandusky acknowledged the dwindling medical services as a major reason why GetPersonal decided to open its permanent location at the medical mall.
“Our communities across Mississippi and Jackson are the lifeblood of our work. And so, it was really quite fulfilling to see that we were able to open our first clinic in the heart of Jackson in a location where we have seen many providers close their doors and we are opening ours,” she said.
GetPersonal by Converge receives federal funding from as the Title X family planning grantee for Mississippi as well as donations from private donors.
