Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Photo of the Day: Every Girl and Woman Should Determine Her Own Future

July 12, 2012

Female social workers are trained at the Hindustan Latex Family Planning Promotion Trust. 26 percent of women in developing countries who want to avoid pregnancy lack access to effective contraceptive methods. (Andhra Pradesh, India, 2007)

There is no controversy in empowering women to decide if and when to have a child.

Today, more than 200 million women and girls in developing countries who don't want to get pregnant lack access to contraceptives.

The unmet need of family planning

 
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