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Family Planning Summit: Our Favorite Reads
Last week, the landmark Family Planning Summit in London took the first step in an ambitious, but critically important, goal: garnering some $4.6 billion in pledges needed to reach 120 million more women around the world with family planning services by the year 2020.In the weeks leading up to the summit, the media-sphere saw a groundswell of opinions, new studies, and coalition letters on family planning. To help you wade through it all, we’ve assembled a digest of some of our favorite reads!
- Gates Foundation Co-Chair Melinda Gates on taking the controversy out of family planning and giving women the power to determine their future. (Huffington Post & CNN, respectively)
- TIME Magazine explains why greater access to contraception can help save lives—and the planet.
- The New York Times highlights a new study concluding that meeting the global demand for family planning would cut maternal deaths by one-third.
- EngenderHealth President Pamela Barnes on prioritizing women’s rights to ensure that the success of the Summit actually delivers for women and girls. (RH Reality Check)
- Nike Foundation President Maria Eitel unpacks the reasons for including adolescent girls in the global effort to increase family planning access. (Huffington Post)
- Financial Times highlights a renewed global effort to boost birth control, with perspectives from top global health leaders.
- Forbes spotlights the role of religion and politics in Melinda Gates’ global campaign for family planning.
- UN Population Fund Executive Director Babatunde Osotimehin on the connection between maternal deaths and family planning. (CNN)
- The Economist heralds the return of family planning to the international development stage and agenda.
- A family planning series by The Lancet reviews the effects of population and family planning on people’s well-being and the environment.
