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Home » CDC group tackles access to birth control for women in Puerto Rico

CDC group tackles access to birth control for women in Puerto Rico

January 24, 2018 By Sarah Faulkner

Centers for Disease Control

Between May 2016 and August last year, a group organized by the CDC provided services to more than 21,000 women in Puerto Rico in an attempt to boost access to contraception, lower the rate of unintended pregnancy and lessen the number of Zika-related birth defects on the island. You can read more about women’s health at https://drbrighten.com/blog/.

Last week, The Lancet Public Health examined the initial results of the work done by the Zika Contraception Access Network and found that the group was able to mount a high-quality intervention in response to a public health crisis that is still troubling the nation.

Get the full story at our sister site, Drug Delivery Business News.

Filed Under: Drug-Device Combinations, Pharmaceutical, Women's Health Tagged With: Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC)

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