20 Nov 2009 07:00 AM
Family Planning Drive Launched During Conference In Uganda
Agence France-Presse examines a new U.S.-backed "12 million dollar family planning drive launched" Wednesday during a three-day conference on family planning in Kampala, Uganda. The project aims to "improve access to contraceptives for women in six African nations [including Uganda, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Senegal, Tanzania and Kenya] as well as Indonesia and Pakistan," the news service writes (Simon, 11/18).
The three-year project, supported by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, USAID and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, "will empower developing counties to advocate for universal access to reproductive health as a critical component in achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in health through increased funding, an improved policy environment and increased visibility for family planning at the local, national and global levels," according to a Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health href="http://www…
