This special issue of Biology of Reproduction, focused on contraception, was galvanized by the annual Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD). Contraceptive Development Meeting that was hosted by Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. The timing of the meeting (November 3–6, 2019) and the freedom that we had to interact and socialize was fortuitous because it came before the United States and the world were engulfed by the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic, which has since limited travel and face-to-face interactions. Many of the reviews, forums, and research articles in this issue arrived in February–March 2020 at Biology of Reproduction before international research laboratory, foundation, organization, and government shutdowns occurred, permitting timely production of this special issue. Although there have been some delays with resubmissions because of the pandemic, we managed to hit our target for delivery of this special issue with a range of articles.

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关于避孕药具发展的特刊：过去、现在和未来。

每年一度的尤尼斯·肯尼迪·施莱佛国家儿童健康与人类发展研究所 (NICHD)推动了这一特刊的生殖生物学，重点是避孕。由德克萨斯州休斯顿贝勒医学院主办的避孕发展会议。会议的时间（2019 年 11 月 3 日至 6 日）以及我们必须进行互动和社交的自由是偶然的，因为它是在美国和世界被 2019 年冠状病毒病大流行吞没之前发生的，该病此后限制了旅行和面对面的互动。本期的许多评论、论坛和研究文章于 2020 年 2 月至 3 月发表在Biology of Reproduction在国际研究实验室、基金会、组织和政府关闭之前，允许及时制作这一特刊。尽管由于大流行而导致重新提交出现了一些延迟，但我们设法通过一系列文章达到了交付本期特刊的目标。