(July 11, 2012, LONDON (AlertNet)--African leaders should increase funding for
contraceptive services if they want to reduce poverty and hunger, the
prime ministers of Ethiopia and Rwanda said ahead of an international
summit on family planning.
Writing in the Lancet medical journal, Rwanda’s Pierre Damien Habumuremyi and Ethiopia’s Meles Zenawi said improving access to contraception also was vital for bringing down “unacceptably high” maternal mortality rates on the continent.
Major donors have praised Ethiopia and Rwanda for increasing access to family planning through strong political commitment and wise investments in their health systems. On Wednesday the British government and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will host the London Summit on Family Planning which will launch an initiative to give 120 million more women worldwide access to voluntary family planning methods by 2020.
Habumuremyi and Meles suggested family planning would not only save lives but would slow the rapid growth of Africa’s swiftly burgeoning populations. Ethiopia and Rwanda are both predicted to double their populations by 2050. Read more from AlertNet »
Writing in the Lancet medical journal, Rwanda’s Pierre Damien Habumuremyi and Ethiopia’s Meles Zenawi said improving access to contraception also was vital for bringing down “unacceptably high” maternal mortality rates on the continent.
Major donors have praised Ethiopia and Rwanda for increasing access to family planning through strong political commitment and wise investments in their health systems. On Wednesday the British government and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will host the London Summit on Family Planning which will launch an initiative to give 120 million more women worldwide access to voluntary family planning methods by 2020.
Habumuremyi and Meles suggested family planning would not only save lives but would slow the rapid growth of Africa’s swiftly burgeoning populations. Ethiopia and Rwanda are both predicted to double their populations by 2050. Read more from AlertNet »
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Britain did control on births, see! now what happened; they had to import labour force from abroad. who want to impose their culture, religion and law as well 'Sharia', also are imbibed with the desire of taking over the land as well and are working underneath in all fibrics of its system to destroy it. This is against the Law of God. God said if disobey ME I will send Hornet in your country who will destroy you and your land. Be warned.
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