In this post in the RH Reality Check blog, Laura Hoemeke, director of communications and knowledge management at IntraHealth International, writes that it “take[s] a health worker, or more accurately millions of health workers, to meet the need that hundreds of millions of couples worldwide have for family planning,” adding, “A new report [.pdf] issued by the Guttmacher Institute and UNFPA this week, Adding It Up: Costs and Benefits of Contraceptive Services — Estimates for 2012, supports that notion.” She concludes, “While it is true that family planning can happen without health workers, one thing is sure: family planning is not happening nearly enough without them” (6/27).