Who is the intended audience of the QFP?
Providers of sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services working in diverse clinical settings (e.g., family planning, primary care, hospitals, and those funded by Title X), as well as providers working in other settings that may identify SRH needs and make referrals.
What is the purpose of the QFP?
Sexual and reproductive health (SRH) is a key aspect of people’s overall health and quality of life. The QFP 2024 recommendations outline how to provide people with high-quality, equitable, and inclusive SRH services, including family-building services, contraceptive services, pregnancy testing and counseling, early pregnancy management, screening and prevention of sexually transmitted infections (STI) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), and other screening and preventive health services.
The recommendations aim to enable health care providers to ensure that all people, regardless of gender identity, sexual orientation, age, ability, race, or ethnicity, can reach their SRH goals and needs. These recommendations are an update to those originally published in 2014. The QFP 2024 recommendations are intended to set the standard of SRH care and can be used by all providers.
What topics does the QFP cover?
- Fundamentals of SRH Care Delivery (guiding principles and approaches)
- Determining an Individual’s Need and Desire for Services (sexual history taking, screening for reproductive desires and related care)
- Person-Centered Contraceptive Care Delivery (steps for contraceptive care delivery, strategies to increase access to contraceptive services)
- STI and HIV Services (risk assessment, prevention, screening and treatment) Family Building (healthy pregnancy promotion and basic infertility services)
- Pregnancy Testing and Counseling (pregnancy testing, options counseling and referral)
- Early Pregnancy Management (prenatal counseling and care, early pregnancy loss, abortion, and supporting self-managed care)
- Screening and Other Preventive Health Care Services (immunizations, perimenopause, mental health, alcohol and other substance use, sexual violence and intimate partner violence, human trafficking)
- Using Performance Measures to Track and Improve Quality of Care (selecting measures, using data to improve quality of services)
QFP At a Glance
This one-pager, developed by the Reproductive Health National Training Center, summarizes what QFP is, who it is for, what topics it covers, and what content is new relative to the prior recommendations released in 2014.