How much would we save if everyone enjoyed the freedom and options that access to family planning brings?Family planning investments can yield far-reaching...
Family planning: UK aid at its best
We've released new analysis showing that 30,000 teenage girls a year die as a result of pregnancy or childbirth. Read how UK aid is saving lives
UK leadership on family planning needed in 2017
Today is International Women’s Day, the annual event that both celebrates women’s rights and draws attention to the many ways in which they are still...
Hand in hand: life-saving family planning and universal health coverage
After being thwarted by the eruption of Mount Rinjani last November, the 4th International Conference on Family Planning is now underway.
World Contraception Day: Family planning saves children’s lives
Friday 26 September marks World Contraception Day. Increased public and policy focus on family planning over recent years means that it has crept up the agenda....
Full Access, Full Choice: Tackling barriers to family planning
Family planning is moving up the global agenda. Last year’s Family Planning Summit in London led to pledges of US$2.6 billion to enable 120 million more women...
The politics of family planning
In her Time Magazine article Lisa Beyer wrote, “In patriarchal societies the honour of a man lies between the legs of a woman.” In the societies where women...
Pregnant children: Liberia’s deadly crisis. Part two
We met 15 year-old Maman at a rehabilitation centre run by the United Nations Population Fund. Maman had gone into labour in her village and did not receive...
Pregnant children: Liberia’s deadly crisis. Part one
We met Gorma, a cheerful teenager, at her village Sanoyea, deep in the lush green forests of Liberia’s Bong County. Gorma, who was 12 when she became...
Malawi: Meeting unmet need for family planning
Although Malawi has made considerable progress in making contraception services more accessible to women, one in three Malawian women who want to space or limit...