Former USAID directors launch major new report on family planning

30 January 2009

Source: John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health/Gates Institute

Five former directors of USAID's Population and Reproductive Health Program issue a call for renewed U.S. political and financial commitment to international family planning programs.

Making the case loud and clear

Making the case for US Family Planning Assistance documents the urgent need for greater U.S. assistance to family planning programs in the developing world and recommends targeted investment in such programs, primarily through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).

Family planning: an unmet need

It describes enormous pent-up and growing unmet need for family planning, which coexists with a basically favorable policy climate among developing country governments. The great majority of these governments are willing if not eager to make family planning and other reproductive health services more available.

Assistance now from the new U.S. administration would contribute to international efforts to achieve the global Millennium Development Goal target of universal access to reproductive health services, including family planning, by 2015. 

The report is available on the USAID website.