Skip to main contentSkip to navigation

The politics of family planning

We are looking at how and why family planning in the developing world has become a global priority. What is driving this renaissance of interest? How do you tackle the practical – and political – challenges of expanding access? And what is at stake in these debates?
  • A woman with contraceptive pills at a family planning clinic in Lagos, Nigeria

    Contraceptive rates in poorest countries leap by 30 million users in four years

    A Family Planning 2020 report finds more than 30% of women and girls in eastern and southern Africa are now using a modern method of contraception
  • An advertisement for Primodos in The Practitioner from the early 1960s marketing campaign aimed at GPs that aggressively targeted the slower, more expensive toad test.

    Primodos was a revolutionary oral pregnancy test. But was it safe?

    In the 1950s, laboratory pregnancy tests involved urine and a toad. Primodos was a breakthrough, but campaigners say there is evidence of serious side effects
  • Assorted contraceptives

    IUDs, the pill and sterilisation: your experiences of contraception

    Accessing family planning is not easy for many women, who face cultural or religious opposition, supply shortages and doctors who won’t listen
  • Schoolgirls take part in a football match in Kilifi, a coastal town in Kenya, as part of a 2010 education initiative on the pitfalls of early marriage and teen pregnancy

    'I didn’t know I could become pregnant after having sex for the first time'

    Mary Wanjiku Mwangi
    When Mary Wanjiku Mwangi fell pregnant at the age of 18, it was months before she realised what was happening
  • Bangladeshi teenage girls learn about reproductive health and family planning in Gaibandha district, 120 miles north of Dhaka.

    Family planning drive reaches millions of women and girls

    But report warns population growth could outpace family planning programmes in some countries despite range of contraception initiatives
  • MDG : Bloomberg  to improve family planning and reproductive health services in Nicaragua

    Family planning groups in developing countries set for Bloomberg boost

    $50m grants scheme will support delivery of reproductive health services in Uganda, Burkina Faso, Senegal and Nicaragua

  • MDG : Gate Foundation letter about development myths, puzzled man looking at DFID display panels

    Open thread: international development myths

    What outlandish myths on international development have you come across? Share your stories
  • Maternity in Manila

    Teenage pregnancies and contraception access under spotlight at global summit

    Family planning talks kick off in Addis Ababa, as data shows millions of women have inadequate contraception support
  • MDG : World contraception day : KHOK work on family planning and sexual violence in Kenya

    Family planning in Kenya – in pictures

    To mark World Contraception Day, photographer Graeme Robertson travelled with the International Planned Parenthood Federation to Eldoret in Kenya to document how NGOs are spreading family planning messages

  • MDG : Philippines maternal health : Pregnant women queeing outside a clinic

    Philippines gears up for battle over reproductive health bill

    Church and state lock horns over family planning proposals that have at long last reached parliament

  • Fariba Haidari

    Family planning: one Afghan woman's struggle to access contraception

  • David Cameron, Melinda Gates and Andrew Mitchell at the family planning summit

    Rich countries pledge $2.6bn for family planning in global south

  • MDG : Family planning : Marie Stopes International family planning outreach team in Tanzania

    A day in the life of a family planning outreach team in Tanzania – in pictures

  • family planning opinions

    Talk point: Your views on what's blocking access to contraception

  • Melinda Gates challenges Vatican by vowing to improve contraception

  • Melinda Gates: 'I'm a Catholic, but women need access to contraceptives' - video interview

  • MDG : Family Planning :  educating women on the use of contraceptives in Uganda

    Family planning: population numbers game must add up for women

    Alicia Yamin and Camila Gianella: This week's summit reflects a welcome new focus on family planning, but the old dangers for human rights are still lurking

  • Pro-contraception protesters in the Filipino capital Manila

    Contraception controversy? What controversy?

    Ashley Judd

    Ashley Judd: Every day women are dying because they can't access family planning. A London summit aims to change that

  • Melinda and Bill Gates

    Melinda Gates hits out at 'war on women' on eve of summit

  • Nisha Darlami, pictured with her one-month-old daughter in Nepal

    Zoe Williams: how contraception is rocking Nepalese society

About 31 results for The politics of family planning
12
  翻译: