Before the first locally transmitted case of Zika was reported in the continental United States last summer, stakeholders from several Southern states were already working to strengthen family planning care to address this threat. The Editor’s Choice study in the latest issue of the journal Women’s Health Issues, “Facilitating State-Wide Collaboration around Family Planning Care in the Context of Zika,” describes the process by which the U.S. Office of Population Affairs (OPA) convened representatives from seven states and offered resources to address this issue, and how states then increased Zika screenings and provision of patient-centered family planning services incorporating guidance on Zika risks.
Women’s Health Issues is the official publication of GW's Jacobs Institute of Women's Health.
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