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Many of these arise from strategies used to avoid cases of <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">CZS<\/jats:styled-content>, with contraception in particular being one proposed strategy that is atypical in epidemic control.<\/jats:p><jats:p>Using contraception to reduce the burden of <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">CZS<\/jats:styled-content> has an ethical complication: interventions that impact the timing of conception alter which people will exist in the future. This so\u2010called \u2018non\u2010identity problem\u2019 potentially has significant social justice implications for evaluating contraception, that may affect our prioritisation of interventions to tackle Zika.<\/jats:p><jats:p>This paper combines ethical analysis of the non\u2010identity problem with empirical data from a novel survey about the general public's moral intuitions. The ethical analysis examines different perspectives on the non\u2010identity problem, and their implications for using contraception in response to Zika. The empirical section reports the results of an online survey of 93 members of the <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">US<\/jats:styled-content> general public exploring their intuitions about the non\u2010identity problem in the context of the Zika epidemic. Respondents indicated a general preference for a person\u2010affecting intervention (mosquito control) over an impersonal intervention (contraception). However, their responses did not appear to be strongly influenced by the non\u2010identity problem.<\/jats:p><jats:p>Despite its potential philosophical significance, we conclude from both theoretical considerations and analysis of the attitudes of the community that the non\u2010identity problem should not affect how we prioritise contraception relative to other interventions to avoid <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">CZS<\/jats:styled-content>.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1111\/dewb.12176","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2017,11,13]],"date-time":"2017-11-13T03:25:13Z","timestamp":1510543513000},"page":"173-204","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":2,"title":["Zika, contraception and the non\u2010identity problem"],"prefix":"10.1111","volume":"17","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-8263-0932","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Keyur","family":"Doolabh","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Lucius","family":"Caviola","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-1691-6403","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Julian","family":"Savulescu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-3496-2884","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Michael","family":"Selgelid","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-3958-8633","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Dominic JC","family":"Wilkinson","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"311","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2017,11,12]]},"container-title":["Developing World Bioethics"],"original-title":[],"language":"en","link":[{"URL":"https:\/\/api.wiley.com\/onlinelibrary\/tdm\/v1\/articles\/10.1111%2Fdewb.12176","content-type":"application\/pdf","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"text-mining"},{"URL":"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/pdf\/10.1111\/dewb.12176","content-type":"unspecified","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"similarity-checking"}],"deposited":{"date-parts":[[2023,9,26]],"date-time":"2023-09-26T12:26:12Z","timestamp":1695731172000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/dewb.12176"}},"subtitle":[],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[2017,11,12]]},"references-count":0,"journal-issue":{"issue":"3","published-print":{"date-parts":[[2017,12]]}},"alternative-id":["10.1111\/dewb.12176"],"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/dewb.12176","archive":["Portico"],"relation":{},"ISSN":["1471-8731","1471-8847"],"issn-type":[{"type":"print","value":"1471-8731"},{"type":"electronic","value":"1471-8847"}],"subject":[],"published":{"date-parts":[[2017,11,12]]}}}