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Primary care providers (PCPs) should offer family planning services. A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Providing Quality Family Planning Services: Recommendations of CDC and the U.S. Office of Population Affairs (http://1.usa.gov/1p9GLAX), recommends that PCPs offer family planning services to men and women of reproductive age. The report outlines a core set of services that should be provided in both specialty and comprehensive primary care settings and offers advice on delivering preconception health services, such as screening for intimate partner violence, and specifies which immunizations are important to reproductive health.