Last spring at a Technology, Entertainment, Design (TED) talk in Berlin, Melinda Gates used
this phrase,“The most transformative thing you can do is to give people access to birth …

Abstract The 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) was a
pivotal global event. It established voluntary family planning as a fundamental human right …

Voluntary family planning is one of the most efficacious and cost‐effective means of
improving individual health, gender equity, family well‐being, and national development …

The delivery and uptake of contraception remain major developmental challenges in Africa,
especially among the most vulnerable women, youth, and adolescents. From the first …

Anti-family planning policymakers and advocates often argue that contraception is simple for
people to obtain and for clinicians to provide. For example, opponents of the Affordable Care …

Contraceptive use was a contentious issue during the course of the 19th century with it
being illegal to provide contraception information in the US well into the 20th century. 1, 2 In …

Background Data for trends in contraceptive use and need are necessary to guide
programme and policy decisions and to monitor progress towards Millennium Development …

The 1980s will go into history as a decade of lost opportunities to increase contraceptive
prevalence and improve reproductive health worldwide. As the decade closes, 500 million …

The world population is on the increase, and the majority of this increase will be from sub-
Saharan Africa (SSA). It is estimated that by 2030 the population of Africa will rise to 1.3 …

Why such renewed emphasis on family planning after 15 years of relative quiet? Perhaps it
is because as 2015 approaches, we realize we are not on target to achieve the Millennium …