«In our experience as a leading provider of sexual and reproductive healthcare in many countries around the world, we know that women not only need but desperately
want access to family planning services and information.
Not exact matches
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the British government today (World Population Day) have been hosting a London Summit on
Family Planning, aimed at expanding
access to contraception and related health
services for women, particularly in poor urban communities, who
want more control over the size of their
families.
The United Nations Population Fund estimates that if all women who
wanted to avoid pregnancy had
access to family planning services, unplanned pregnancies would fall by 71 % from 75 million
to 22 million per year.
It also means that we need a crash program
to get reproductive health care and birth control
services to the more than 200 million women today who
want to plan their
families but lack
access to the means
to do so.
Our Silver
Plan is for travelers and
families who
want basic comprehensive coverage and
access to our 24 - hour emergency travel assistance
services.
■ By providing millions of women with
access to contraceptive
services they
want and need, publicly funded
family planning in 2010 helped women
to avoid 2.2 million unintended pregnancies.