Health Buzz: Gates Foundation Pledges Funds for Contraception

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Gates Foundation Promotes Importance of Contraception

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has promised hundreds of millions of dollars to promoting contraceptive use, particularly in poor nations. At the London Summit on Family Planning on Wednesday, co-hosted by the Foundation and the United Kingdom, Melinda Gates pledged $560 million as part of a campaign that aims to raise $4.3 billion to expand access to contraception. About 220 million women in the developing world don't want to get pregnant, but don't have reliable access to contraception, according to United Nations figures. The world leaders and aid organizations that attended the summit are launching a program designed to extend family planning services to 120 million of those women. "When I travel and talk to women around the world they tell me that access to contraceptives can often be the difference between life and death," Melinda Gates said during the summit, Reuters reports. "Today is about listening to their voices, about meeting their aspirations, and giving them the power to create a better life for themselves and their families."

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