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“As
we look back at this year’s accomplishments, FP2020 is also looking to the
future, guided by the resolve to empower women and girls to make healthy
reproductive choices.”
—Dr. Ariel Pablos-Méndez, Family
Planning 2020 (FP2020) 2014–2015 progress report
Today, an unprecedented number of women and girls are using
modern methods of contraception: 290.6 million in the world’s poorest
countries. Despite this progress, there are still
millions of women who want to avoid or delay a pregnancy but cannot access the
information and tools to do so. The U.S. Agency for
International Development (USAID) is a critical supporter of FP2020, a global
partnership aimed at providing access to voluntary family planning information,
contraceptives and services to 120
million more women and girls in the world’s poorest countries by 2020.
The FP2020 third annual progress report, FP2020
Commitment to Action 2014–2015, details progress and achievements made since the landmark 2012
London Summit on Family Planning. In just 3 years,
24.4 million more women and girls have begun to use modern methods of
contraception. Read the report to learn how family planning continues to
improve the lives of women and girls across the world, as well as the action
that still needs to be taken to further accelerate progress.