Global Health News: London Summit on Family Planning

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Global Health News July 2012
London Summit on Family Planning

Today, World Population Day, the U.K. Government and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, with the United Nations Population Fund and other partners, hosted the groundbreaking London Summit on Family Planning to provide an additional 120 million women in the world’s poorest countries with lifesaving contraceptives, information, and services by 2020. The United States supports and will help achieve the summit’s commitment to provide an additional 120 million women with access to family planning, and to use family planning success to drive future momentum for the broader reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health continuum of care. The United States is proud to be the largest bilateral donor to family planning programs worldwide. Read a blog post by USAID Administrator Raj Shah on the U.S. government’s commitment to the Summit.  
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Innovative Partnership to Deliver Convenient Contraceptive in a New Way

contraceptive technology: Depo-SubQ in Uniject  
Credit: PATH  

USAID, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development, the United Nations Population Fund, Pfizer, and PATH announced today an initiative to offer an injectable contraceptive to up to 3 million women in the world’s poorest countries, which will provide women in the hardest-to-reach areas access to a popular and effective family planning method. The product prevents pregnancy for three months with a single sub-cutaneous injection using the pre-filled, auto-disable Uniject device developed with USAID support. The proposed contraceptive’s unique delivery system makes it more portable and easier to use than other options, allowing injections to be delivered by health care workers to women at home or in other convenient settings.

Lancet Commentary: Giving Women the Power to Plan Their Families

Millions of girls and women in the world’s poorest countries can transform their lives if needs for family planning — to delay, space, and limit childbearing — are met. Despite progress in some areas of the world, this situation has changed little in the past decade. Read a recently released commentary in The Lancet’s special series on family planning by USAID Administrator Raj Shah; Bob Carr, Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs; Melinda Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; and Andrew Mitchell, U.K. Secretary of State for International Development.
Interactive Timeline

Since the mid-1960s, USAID has helped host nations by providing strategic support for family planning programs throughout the developing world. Today, USAID supports programing in more than 45 countries. 
Contraceptive Technologies Slideshow

USAID is committed to expanding and improving contraceptive technologies to help women and men plan their families. The Agency is also working to address the multilayered reproductive health needs of women through development of methods that bring together prevention of HIV and unintended pregnancy in a single device.
  • To learn more about our work, check out this slideshow depicting some of the new methods USAID is supporting.
  group of three women being introduced to a contraceptive method
  Credit: JSI (USAID | DELIVER Project)

Statement for Collective Action for Postpartum Family Planning

Today at the Summit on Family Planning in London, the U.S. Agency for International Development, United Nations Fund for Population Assistance, the World Health Organization, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and several other major international agencies have joined together and endorsed a Statement for Collective Action for Postpartum Family Planning for all programs that reach women in facilities and communities during the first year following a birth to ensure the systematic integration of Postpartum Family Planning counseling and services into their programs. 
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