At the recent London Summit on Family Planning, which was co-
hosted by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the United
Kingdom Government's Department for the International
Development, a new set of commitments was made to help more than
120 million females in the world's poorest countries access
voluntary family planning services.  Estimated at a cost of
approximately $4.3 billion, the efforts will provide
contraceptive supplies, education and services to women and
girls in more than 20 countries by 2020. Currently, as many as
one in four girls living in Sub-Saharan African aren't able to
finish their education due to an unintended pregnancy. This
initiative is expected to have a significant impact, reducing
the number of unplanned pregnancies by 110 million, the number
of first-year infant deaths by 3 million and the number of women
who die during pregnancy or childbirth by 200,000.  "When I
travel and talk to women around the world they tell me that
access to contraceptives can often be the difference b