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Planned Parenthood Joins Campaign To Rid Miami Neighborhoods Of Zika

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In Miami, Planned Parenthood has been helping¹ in the fight against the Zika virus, sometimes getting the word out in neighborhoods where people have never even heard of Zika. But as NPR's Greg Allen reports, Planned Parenthood's involvement does give these efforts a political backdrop.

GREG ALLEN, BYLINE²: Lenroy Watt³ is one of about a dozen Planned Parenthood workers knocking on doors in Miami neighborhoods like Hialeah, Liberty City and on this day, Little Haiti.

LENROY WATT: Good afternoon. My name is Lenroy. We're in the area sharing information about the Zika virus.

ALLEN: Like many in this neighborhood, Jean Baptiste is a newcomer from Haiti. She lives in an apartment with her father and several other people. She tells Watt she hadn't heard about Zika.

WATT: You're not aware of it? All right, not a problem. So it's a good thing that we're here today then.

ALLEN: Watt talks to Baptiste about the disease and leaves information in Creole, including phone numbers for mosquito control and county health offices where free tests are available for pregnant women. In the weeks since local Zika transmission was confirmed in a nearby neighborhood, Wynwood, mosquito control has conducted intensive spraying, and health workers have gone door to door there testing residents for the virus. But just blocks away in Little Haiti, resident Harry⁴ Noel says people have received very little information about Zika and how to prevent it.

HARRY NOEL: Nobody ever show up to educate the neighborhood's people how to get rid of mosquitoes, what to do - nobody. It's for the first time I've seen somebody coming and address that problem.

ALLEN: Planned Parenthood is also making Zika prevention kits⁵, with condoms and mosquito repellent, available to pregnant women at its health centers. Chief medical officer Christopher Estes says his group decided⁶ it could best augment⁷ the state and federal response by doing outreach in areas they're not active - neighborhoods surrounding the zones of local Zika transmission.

CHRISTOPHER ESTES: We have the resources. We have the know-how⁸. This is a natural extension of the work we do with reproductive health care and sexually transmitted infections that it just made sense. You know, and this is a time of a public health crisis. And when you've got something like this going on, it's all hands on deck.

ALLEN: Although it's working to coordinate⁹ with the state, relations are still strained. In recent years, Planned Parenthood's dealings with Florida officials, including Governor Rick Scott, have been contentious¹⁰. A federal judge recently struck down a Florida law signed by Scott that would have cut a half million dollars annually¹¹ for preventive health care from the group.

Planned Parenthood is also one of many health care providers that have been critical of Governor Scott for blocking the expansion of Medicaid in Florida under Obamacare. The CEO of Planned Parenthood of south, east and north Florida, Lillian Tamayo, says Miami-Dade County has the state's largest population of people without health coverage¹², leaving them vulnerable to Zika.

LILLIAN TAMAYO: More than one-third of Florida does not have an OBGYN. It also is among the worst states in the country for women's health and women's well-being¹³. And it has staggering infection rates for sexually transmitted diseases. And now we have Zika.

ALLEN: State officials declined comment on the Planned Parenthood canvasing operation. The effort to cut public funding for Planned Parenthood has also gotten tied up with the fight against Zika in Washington. Congress deadlocked¹⁴ over a White House request for $1.9 billion in emergency Zika funding after House Republicans added several riders, including provisions to defund Planned Parenthood.

At a news conference in Miami this week, Democratic Congresswoman Frederica Wilson called on Congressional leaders to stop targeting Planned Parenthood and to get serious about Zika.

(SOUNDBITE OF NEWS CONFERENCE)

FREDERICA WILSON: Call us back to Washington, D.C. The House and Senate should reconvene and pass a clean bill to fight Zika.

ALLEN: In Miami, Planned Parenthood expects to knock on some 25,000 doors in medically underserved areas through September, when a recent estimate says Zika cases are expected to peak in Florida. Greg Allen, NPR News, Miami.

1 helping   

n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的，辅助的

参考例句：

• The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
• By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。

2 byline   

n.署名；v.署名

参考例句：

• His byline was absent as well.他的署名也不见了。
• We wish to thank the author of this article which carries no byline.我们要感谢这篇文章的那位没有署名的作者。

3 watt   

n.瓦，瓦特

参考例句：

• The invention of the engine is creditable to Watt.发动机的发明归功于瓦特。
• The unit of power is watt.功率的单位是瓦特。

4 harry   

vt.掠夺，蹂躏，使苦恼

参考例句：

• Today,people feel more hurried and harried.今天，人们感到更加忙碌和苦恼。
• Obama harried business by Healthcare Reform plan.奥巴马用医改掠夺了商界。

5 kits   

衣物和装备( kit的名词复数 )； 成套用品； 配套元件

参考例句：

• Keep your kits closed and locked when not in use. 不用的话把你的装备都锁好放好。
• Gifts Articles, Toy and Games, Wooden Toys, Puzzles, Craft Kits. 采购产品礼品，玩具和游戏，木制的玩具，智力玩具，手艺装备。

6 decided   

adj.决定了的，坚决的；明显的，明确的

参考例句：

• This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
• There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。

7 augment   

vt.(使)增大，增加，增长，扩张

参考例句：

• They hit upon another idea to augment their income.他们又想出一个增加收入的办法。
• The government's first concern was to augment the army and auxiliary forces.政府首先关心的是增强军队和辅助的力量。

8 know-how   

n.知识；技术；诀窍

参考例句：

• He hasn't got the know-how to run a farm.他没有经营农场的专业知识。
• I don't have much know-how about engines.发动机方面的技术知识我知之甚少。

9 coordinate   

adj.同等的，协调的；n.同等者；vt.协作，协调

参考例句：

• You must coordinate what you said with what you did.你必须使你的言行一致。
• Maybe we can coordinate the relation of them.或许我们可以调和他们之间的关系。

10 contentious   

adj.好辩的，善争吵的

参考例句：

• She was really not of the contentious fighting sort.她委实不是好吵好闹的人。
• Since then they have tended to steer clear of contentious issues.从那时起，他们总想方设法避开有争议的问题。

11 annually   

adv.一年一次，每年

参考例句：

• Many migratory birds visit this lake annually.许多候鸟每年到这个湖上作短期逗留。
• They celebrate their wedding anniversary annually.他们每年庆祝一番结婚纪念日。

12 coverage   

n.报导，保险范围，保险额，范围，覆盖

参考例句：

• There's little coverage of foreign news in the newspaper.报纸上几乎没有国外新闻报道。
• This is an insurance policy with extensive coverage.这是一项承保范围广泛的保险。

13 well-being   

n.安康，安乐，幸福

参考例句：

• He always has the well-being of the masses at heart.他总是把群众的疾苦挂在心上。
• My concern for their well-being was misunderstood as interference.我关心他们的幸福，却被误解为多管闲事。

14 deadlocked   

陷入僵局的；僵持不下的

参考例句：

• The plan deadlocked over the funds. 这个计划由于经费问题而搁浅了。
• The meeting deadlocked over the wage issue. 会议因工资问题而停顿下来。