Sexual and reproductive health workforce project: overview and recommendations from the SRH Workforce Summit, January 2013.

Despite many advances in contraceptive care, little progress has been made in reducing the unacceptably high rate of unintended pregnancy in the United States, even though the Department of Health and Human Services identified reduction of these rates as a key public health priority since 1990. Health disparities are still a major challenge in the US, with the highest rates of unintended pregnancy seen among African-American and Hispanic women and adolescents. The 3.2 million unintended pregnancies each year result in negative health consequences for women and children and drain the limited resources of our health care system.