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World Contraception Day

New Contraceptive Approaches Needed Now More Than Ever

Ward Cates | Posted 01.02.2013 | Impact
Read More: FHI 360, Women, Contraception, World Contraception Day, Family Planning, Health, Global Motherhood, Contraceptive Implant, Jadelle, Impact News
Ward Cates

Over the next decade, we owe it to women and couples everywhere to present them with more family planning options.

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From Farms to Family Planning: Investing in Women on World Contraception Day

Melinda Gates | Posted 11.28.2012 | Impact
Read More: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Family Planning, Farms, Women's Issues, Women's Health, World Contraception Day, Contraception, Birth Control, Development, Small Farms, Developing Nations Family Planning, Africa Small Farms, Impact News
Melinda Gates

Today is World Contraception Day. I am celebrating by visiting a cassava farm in Tanzania. It might seem like a strange way to observe the day, except for this fact: the women who do the majority of the labor on small family farms are often the very same women who are asking for contraceptives.

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