While slow and uneven progress has been made on maternal health, attaining the 1994
Cairo International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) goal for achieving …

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 …

Family planning, though not always recognized as such, is one of the basic and most
important preventative health care services for women. To maximize the health value of …

Sharply rising energy and food prices have once again raised the specter of the human
population outstripping the planet's natural resources. Ever since Malthus, pes simists have …

Africa lags behind the rest of the developing world in most demographic, health and
economic indicators of social development, but some progress has been made in …

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 …

The aim of this paper is to discuss the main hurdles and possible solutions concerning
reproductive and sexual health and safe motherhood in the developing countries. In …

Modern contraception has given women and couples the means to control whether and
when to have children. Moreover, it has had important public health consequences for …

A decade ago, at the International Conference on Popula-tion and Development (ICPD) in
Cairo, representatives from 179 countries, including the United States, agreed that …

It is imperative to make family planning more accessible in low resource settings. The
poorest couples have the highest fertility, the lowest contraceptive use and the highest …