Update: Providing Quality Family Planning Services — Recommendations from CDC and the U.S. Office of Population Affairs, 2017

Male Attendance at Title X Family Planning Clinics — United States, 2003–2014

“…In 2014, CDC and OPA published Providing Quality Family Planning Services: Recommendations of CDC and the U.S. Office of Population Affairs, which describes services that should be offered in a family planning visit, and guidance for providing those services to both men and women (3). Recommended services for men include education and counseling on a range of issues related to preventing or achieving pregnancy, including, but not limited to, preconception health, infertility, contraception, and STD and HIV care (3).…”

“…Recommended services for men include education and counseling on a range of issues related to preventing or achieving pregnancy, including, but not limited to, preconception health, infertility, contraception, and STD and HIV care (3). Preconception health, infertility, and STD and HIV services are included as family planning services because they improve the overall health of women and men and can influence their ability to conceive or have a healthy birth outcome (3). Title X sites also connect men with broader primary care services, through referral or direct provision of services.…”

“…Although both men and women have reproductive health care needs, family planning providers traditionally focus services toward women (1,2). Challenges in providing family planning services to men, including preconception health, infertility, contraceptive, and sexually transmitted disease (STD) care (3,4), include their infrequent use of preventive health services, a perceived lack of need for these services (1,5), and the lack of provider guidance regarding men's reproductive health care needs (4). Since 1970, the National Title X Family Planning Program has provided cost-effective and confidential family planning and related preventive health services with priority for services to low-income women and men.…”

Reproductive life planning in women after kidney or liver transplantation

“…The detailed questionnaire contained standardized questions about reproductive life. The form and content of the questions were used in accordance with the recommendations of the One Key Question Initiative and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention . Women were asked if they planned to have children, and, if so, whether they would like to become pregnant .…”

“…Women were asked if they planned to have children, and, if so, whether they would like to become pregnant . If the women gave a negative answer, they were asked when they planned to attempt to conceive in the future . Women were also asked about the number of children they currently have and whether they would like to have (more) children.…”